Genius on the Edge: The Bizarre Double Life of Dr. William Stewart Halsted (54 page)

Surgeon’s sleeves

Surgery

abroad

building

residents

routines

schedule

Surgical attire

Surgical clinics

Surgical papers

Surgical pathology

Surgical staff growth

Surgical tourniquet

Surgical training

“Swedish Nightingale,”

T

Tasters, The

Taxis

Taylor, Adrian

Teaching

Telegraph

Telephones

Temper

Tent operating room

Terry, Bertha Halsted

Thayer, William S.

Theotocopouli, Jorge Manuel

Thiersch, Karl

Thomas, Allen M.

Thomas, Carey

Three Lives

Thyroid gland

surgery

Tool decontamination

Toronto School of Medicine

Trachoma

Training system

Transport

Travel

Trichloroethylene

Trigeminal neuralgia

Trusses

Tubercle bacillus

Tuberculin

Tuberculosis

Tufts, Rev. Mr.

Tulane University

Turner, John

Typhoid

U

Union Theological Seminary

University-affiliated schools

University of California

University of Chicago

University of Cincinnati

University of the City of New York

University Club

University of Maryland Medical

School

University of Michigan School of

Medicine

University of Pennsylvania

University Place Presbyterian

Church

University of Virginia

Urology

V

Vanderbilt

Van der Poel, Minnie Halsted

Van der Poel, Samuel

Van der Poel, W. Halsted

Vascular aneurysm

Vascular surgery

Venable, Richard M.

Verdi

Veterinary pursuits

Vienna General Hospital

Visiting physician

Visitors

Volkmann, Richard von

Voltaire

Von Recklinghausen, F. D.

W

Wagner, Ernst

Waldeyer, Wilhelm

Wall Street

Wallace, W. K.

Ward nurse

Ward rounds

Warren, John Collins

Waters, Levin

Welch, William Henry

aseptic techniques

in Baltimore

in Big Four

breast cancer cure

choosing best men

Cushing (Harvey) and

experimental work

full-term professors

Halsted’s addiction

Halsted’s final illness, death

Hopkins (Johns) and

Johns Hopkins Medical School

New York

operating room

Osler (William) and

residency

scientist

teaching

U.S. medical education

World War I

Welch Medical Library

Wells, Horace

Whipple, Allen O.

Wiener Allegemeines Krankenhaus

Wilde, Oscar

William H. Welch Endowment

for Clinical Education and

Research

William Welch and the Rise of Modern

Medicine

Williams, J. Whitridge “Bull,”

Wilson, Woodrow

Wölfler, Anton

Women physicians

Women’s Fund Committee

Women’s Fund Memorial

Building

Wood, Leonard

Woodbury, John

Word usage

World War II

World’s Fair (1853)

Wound healing

X–Z

X-ray

exposure

Yale

Yellow fever

Young, Hugh Hampton

aseptic technique

Halsted’s addiction

new departments

residency

scientist

surgery’s early days

World War I

Zuckerkandl, Emil

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

DR. GERALD IMBER
is a well-known plastic surgeon and authority on cosmetic surgery, and directs a private clinic in Manhattan. He is assistant clinical professor of surgery at Weill-Cornell School of Medicine, and on staff at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital, where he served his residency, and learned a great deal of Dr. Halsted.

In addition to scientific papers and lectures, Dr. Imber has written numerous general-interest articles as well as books on plastic surgery.
Genius on the Edge
is his first biography.

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© 2010 Gerald Imber, MD

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