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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's tutor at medical school was Henry B Sands, a pre-eminant surgeon and Professor of Anatomy. Halsted also became first assistant to John C Dalton, a Professor of Physiology, and spent time on dissection and working in a pharmacy.
- Michael P Osborne
- 2007
Sep 19, 2024 · William Stewart Halsted (born Sept. 23, 1852, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Sept. 7, 1922, Baltimore, Md.) was an American pioneer of scientific surgery who established at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, the first surgical school in the United States.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
With the financial means of his family in 1878, Halsted set sail to further his medical education at the European centers of surgery and medical scholarship. In Vienna, Würzburg, Halle, and Hamburg he studied with some of the most notable figures in medical history, such as Zuckerkandl, Billroth, Chiari, von Bergmann, and Volkmann.
In contrast, he did well in medical school, New York's College of Physicians and Surgeons (P&S), then a proprietary school only loosely associated with Columbia University. After graduation in 1877, he interned at Bellevue Hospital and became quite interested in surgery as an area of medical practice.
Mar 9, 2010 · With his equally renowned colleagues internist William Osler, pathologist William Welch, and gynecologist Howard Kelly, he helped revolutionize the training of doctors by creating the first modern medical school at Johns Hopkins.
Jul 23, 2017 · In December of 1886, Halsted moved to Baltimore, Maryland, and began working in an experimental laboratory one of his friends, William Henry Welch, a surgeon who researched disease and was later the first dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland.
