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    William Stewart Halsted, M.D. (September 23, 1852 – September 7, 1922) was an American surgeon who emphasized strict aseptic technique during surgical...
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  • He has been called the "father of modern surgery". The American William Stewart Halsted (1852–1922) pioneered the radical mastectomy, and designed a residency...
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  • These key points were introduced in the late 19th century by William Stewart Halsted, co-founder of Johns Hopkins Hospital. Gentle handling of tissue...
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    operating room uniforms to gloves was pioneered by William Halsted. Preceding modern-day scrubs attire, Halsted implemented a no street clothes policy in his...
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    dense tissue. Later, Dr. William Henry Welch and William Stewart Halsted contributed to the invention of clamps and Halsted-Mosquito Hemostats, which...
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    19th century William Stewart Halstead (1852–1922) laid out basic surgical principles for asepsis known as Halsteads principles. Halsted also introduced...
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  • British fencer Lawrence Halsted (1764-1841), Royal Navy admiral Nick Halsted (1942-2007), British fencer William Stewart Halsted (1852–1922), pioneering...
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    Morningside and was separated from Mount Sinai West. Physicians include William Stewart Halsted, surgical pioneer; Alonzo Clark (1897–1887), ninth president of...
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    Jesse Gray (First female chief of surgery at Hopkinz Hospital) William Stewart Halsted (initiated surgical residency training in U.S., pioneer in many...
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    and IV. Dr. William Lorenzo Moss's (1876–1957) Moss-blood typing technique of 1910 was widely used until World War II. William Stewart Halsted, M.D. (1852–1922)...
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    than rubber gloves when performing surgical operations. In 1894, William Stewart Halsted, the first chief of surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, invented...
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  • mortality. Dr. John Thackery (partially based on historical figure William Stewart Halsted), the new leader of the surgery staff, balances his cocaine and...
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    Sir William Osler, 1st Baronet, FRS FRCP (/ˈɒzlər/; July 12, 1849 – December 29, 1919) was a Canadian physician and one of the "Big Four" founding professors...
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  • by British customers. Like many other foreign customers, William Stewart Halsted and William H. Welch regularly sent their shirts to be laundered to Charvet...
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    County Hospital in Chicago. Hugh H. Young MD in collaboration with William Stewart Halsted MD developed the open, radical and perineal prostatectomies in...
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    Owen's character, Dr. John Thackery, is based in part on Dr. William Stewart Halsted. Dr. Halsted, a well known physician who invented many new surgical instruments...
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    author of The Principles and Practice of Medicine (1892), surgeon William Stewart Halsted (1852–1922), who revolutionized surgery by insisting on subtle...
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  • had experimented with compression ignition before Diesel). 1893: William Stewart Halsted, invents the rubber glove for his wife Caroline Hampton as he noticed...
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    The first formal residency programs were established by William Osler and William Stewart Halsted at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Residencies elsewhere...
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  • surgical nurse at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, working for William Stewart Halsted. The impetus for Hampton's use of gloves was her sensitive skin...
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    on May 7, 1889. They were pathologist William Henry Welch, surgeon William Stewart Halsted, internist William Osler, and gynecologist Howard Atwood Kelly...
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    residency in surgery under the guidance of pioneering surgeon William Stewart Halsted at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He subsequently trained...
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    1898 (first synthesis by Richard Willstätter) 1884 (Karl Koller, William Stewart Halsted) Ester - Benzoic cyclomethycaine Ester - hydroxybenzoic dibucaine...
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  • Carroll Beckwith, American painter and academic (d. 1917) 1852 – William Stewart Halsted, American physician and surgeon (d. 1922) 1853 – Princess Marie...
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    also performing thyroidectomies at that time, was described by William Stewart Halsted as follows: I have pondered the question for many years and conclude...
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  • comprising pathologist William Henry Welch, surgeon William Stewart Halsted, gynecologist Howard Atwood Kelly and internist William Osler, who originates...
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    the end of the 19th century—the radical mastectomy promoted by William Stewart Halsted raised long-term survival rates from 10% to 50%—efforts to educate...
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  • treatment of breast and uterine cancers 1880s  – American Dr. William Stewart Halsted develops radical mastectomy for breast cancer 1890s  – German Dr...
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    local ischemia in cases when surgical removal were not possible. William Stewart Halsted started performing radical mastectomies in 1882, helped greatly...
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  • of the Golden Bough by Frazer, which Halsted then described as: "Such a stupendous and bloodcurdling work." Halsted also stated: "What a fearful thing is...
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