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The young surgeon jabbed a syringe into his own arm, extracted blood, and injected it into his sister — one of the first known blood transfusions in America. His sister, like their mother, recovered. But in 1884, everything changed.
William Stewart Halsted was a pioneer of surgery in the USA and made many wide-ranging contributions, including the surgical treatment of breast cancer. He changed the training of surgeons from a disorganised apprenticeship to the residency training programmes used today.
- Michael P Osborne
- 2007
At Johns Hopkins Medical School, Halsted introduced the USA's first formal training programme for surgeons, an innovation that soon spread to institutions all over the country and laid the groundwork for many of the great surgical advances of the 20th century. 100 years later, a swashbuckling Clive Owen would play a thinly disguised version of ...
- Talha Khan Burki
- 2018
After graduating from medical school, Halsted went to Europe from 1878 to 1880 to study both basic sciences, primarily anatomy, and surgery. As the son of a well-to-do businessman in New York, he had the means to study with at least 19 different European medical/surgical scholars.
- James R. Wright, Norman S. Schachar
- 10.1503/cjs.003319
- 2020
- Can J Surg. 2020 Feb; 63(1): E13-E18.
Jul 24, 2013 · A clinical and histological study of certain adenocarcinomata of the breast: and a brief consideration of the supraclavicular operation and of the results of operations for cancer of the breast from 1889 to 1898 at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Following his discharge from Butler in 1886, Halsted moved to Baltimore, Maryland, to join his friend William Welch in organizing and launching the new Johns Hopkins Hospital. Halsted began working in Welch's experimental laboratory, and he presented a paper at Harvard Medical School.
Halsted was born in 1852 in New York City. Educated at home until he was 10, he attended private preparatory schools first in Monson, Mass., and at Phillips Academy in Andover. Before entering Yale University Halsted returned to New York to receive private tutoring in Latin and Greek.
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