William Stewart Halsted (1852-1922)

William Stewart Halsted (1852-1922): father of American surgery.

William Stewart Halsted. Our surgical heritage.

William Stewart Halsted: his life and contributions to surgery.

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. Halsted's research developed a better understanding of surgically amenable disease and a multitude of new techniques and ope...

James William Kitching (1922-2003)

James William Kitching collected and studied fossils of dinosaurs and early humans [3] in the twentieth century. He worked at the Bernard Price Institute for Paleontological Research in South Africa. During the fifty-three years he worked at the institute, Kitching spent eighteen of those in the field uncovering fossils. Kitching recovered fossils of early human ancestors, later called Australo...

Publications of Dr. William Dameshek--1922-1947.

l)amcshek, \V.: Backache. Boston \l. &. S. J. 187: 830-834, 1922. The heart in hyperthyroidism. Boston M.& S.J. 190:487-497, 1924. -: Typhus fever-report of a case. Boston \l.& S. j. 193:260-262, 1925. -: The reticulated red cells-their clinical significance. Boston M.& S.J. 194:759-768, 1926. I)ana, H. \V., and -: Intermittent auricular ventricular block. Am.J.M.Sc. 171:485-489, 1926. -: Benze...