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William Stewart Halsted

1852 - 1922

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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 procedures, was an early champion of newly discovered anesthetics, and introduced several new operations, including the radical mastectomy for breast cancer. Along with William Osler (Professor of Medicine), Howard Atwood Kelly (Professor of Gynecology) and William H. Welch (Professor of Pathology), Halsted was one of the "Big Four" founding professors at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. His operating room at Johns Hopkins Hospital is in Ward G, and was described as a small room where medical discoveries and miracles took place. According to an intern who once worked in Halsted's operating room, Halsted had unique techniques, operated on the patients with great confidence and often had perfect results which astonished the interns. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Stewart Halsted is the 497th most popular physician (down from 407th in 2019), the 5,439th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,887th in 2019) and the 56th most popular American Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, William Stewart Halsted ranks 497 out of 726. Before him are Antonio Scarpa, Łucja Frey, Hulusi Behçet, Edith Farkas, William Hunter, and Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen. After him are Soumya Swaminathan, Eugène Olivier, Constantin von Economo, Kurt Blome, Oskar Minkowski, and Wu Lien-teh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, William Stewart Halsted ranks 77. Before him are Prince Arnulf of Bavaria, Leon Wyczółkowski, Émile Fayolle, Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, Moritz von Auffenberg, and Dục Đức. After him are Princess Ida of Schaumburg-Lippe, Otto Binswanger, Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg, Meijer de Haan, Eilif Peterssen, and Vasily Safonov. Among people deceased in 1922, William Stewart Halsted ranks 90. Before him are Yevgeny Vakhtangov, Petros Protopapadakis, Pavle Jurišić Šturm, Berthold Delbrück, Patrick Manson, and Iwan Bloch. After him are John Munro Longyear, Louis Duchesne, James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce, Ernest Lavisse, Henry Bataille, and Max von Hausen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Stewart Halsted ranks 5,439 out of 20,380. Before him are Douglas Preston (1956), Elizabeth Perkins (1960), Jack DeJohnette (1942), Bret Easton Ellis (1964), Charles Reidpath (1889), and John Hay (1838). After him are Gloria Vanderbilt (1924), Spencer Johnson (1938), David A. R. White (1970), Michael Freedman (1951), Dennis Lehane (1965), and John Lurie (1952).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, William Stewart Halsted ranks 56. Before him are Andrew Taylor Still (1828), Crawford Long (1815), Deborah Birx (1956), Benjamin Rush (1745), Helen B. Taussig (1898), and Warren Sturgis McCulloch (1898). After him are Russell M. Nelson (1924), Alfred Blalock (1899), George Huntington (1850), Jill Stein (1950), Burrill Bernard Crohn (1884), and Florence R. Sabin (1871).

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