William Stewart Halsted: Letters to a Young Female Admirer

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...

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

Letters to a Young Doctor

tiation with adequate documentation. The language is a bit complex and unclear, and the lack of figures makes it confusing to learn from this chapter; however, it is an excellent resource for the student interested in detail. The discussion of endocrine control of normal puberty is well organized, well illustrated, and excellently written; it is however current only up to 1978. The chapter devo...

Letters to a young doctor. Overseas doctors.

Hampton JR. Should every survivor of a heart attack be given a beta-blocker ? Evidence from clinical trials. Br Med J' 1982;285:33-6. A detailed critique of the available data followed by the views of a clinical pharmacologist (A Breckenridge pp 37-8) and some overall conclusions (G Rose pp 39-40). Hitchings RA. Beta-blockers in the treatment of chronic simple glaucoma. Br MedJ3 1982;285:84-5. ...