Genius on the Edge: The Bizarre Double Life of Dr. William Stewart Halsted (51 page)

47   
Shocked at the cost…
Sigmund Freud,
Cocaine Papers
, edited by Robert Byck, MD, notes by Anna Freud (New York: Stonehill Publishing Company, 1974), 6.

53   
In two minutes there was complete…
R. J. Hall, MD, letter to the
New York Medical Journal
, 1885. Reprinted in
Surgical Papers
I (1924), 167–77.

55   
Neither indifferent…
W.S. Halsted, “Practical Comments on the Use and Abuse of Cocaine Suggested by Its Use in More Than 1000 Minor Operations,”
New York Medical Journal
42 (1885): 495–510.

58   
the Captain’s medicine locker…
Daniel B. Nunn, MD, “Dr. Halsted’s Addiction,”
Johns Hopkins Advanced Studies in Medicine
6, no. 3 (March 2006), 106–108.

CHAPTER 7

Mr. Johns Hopkins…
Kathryn A. Jacob,
The Johns Hopkins Magazine
, Johns Hopkins University, January 1974.

Caroline Jones Franz, “Johns Hopkins: How a Farsighted Quaker Merchant and Four Great Doctors Brought Forth, with Maddening Slowness, One of the Finest Medical Centers in the World,”
American Heritage Magazine
, February 1976.

61   
In the fall of 1872…
Ann Morton Green,
Horses at Work
(Boston: Harvard University Press, 2008): 168–70.

61   “The Horse Plague,”
New York Times
, October 25, 1872.

62   
At his death…
“Death of Johns Hopkins,”
The Baltimore Sun
, Thursday morning edition, December 25, 1873.

64   
John Shaw Billings…
National Library of Medicine, John Shaw Billings Centennial, U.S. Public Health Service, June 17, 1965.

Fielding H. Garrison, MD,
John Shaw Billings, A Memoir
(New York and London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1915), 181–212.

66   
Auerbach’s Keller…
Simon Flexner and James Thomas Flexner,
William Henry Welch and the Heroic Age of American Medicine
(New York: Viking Press, 1941), 92.

70   
He attended a session…
Victor O. Freeburg, ed.,
William Henry Welch at Eighty: A Memorial Record of Celebrations Around the World in His Honor
(New York: The Milbank Memorial Fund, 1930).

71   
I wish I had a picture…
Edwards A. Park, MD, “A Pediatrician’s Recollection of Dr. Halsted,”
Surgery
12, no. 3 (1932): 447.

72   
That’s too bad. Loomis…
Donald Fleming,
William H. Welch and the Rise of Modern Medicine
(Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974): 70.

72   
I shall never forget the circumstances…
Freeburg, ed.,
William Henry Welch at Eighty
.

CHAPTER 8

79   
In April…
Letter from W. S. Halsted to William H. Welch, August 3, 1922, High Hampton, North Carolina.

80   
Dr. Fred C. Shattuck…
Letter from Roy McClure to Heuer, October 22, 1948, Heuer papers, New York Hospital Archives.

81   Halsted at Butler. “A Pediatrician’s Recollections of Dr. Halsted,”
Surgery
32, no. 2 (September 1952): 475.

82   
Nobody knows where Popsie eats…
Hugh Young,
A Surgeon’s Autobiography
(New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company, Inc., 1940), 55.

83   
two hundred pound eighty year old…
H. L. Mencken,
The Baltimore Sun
, April 11, 1935.

CHAPTER 9

92   
Halsted’s heroic determination…
MacCallum and Welch,
William Stewart Halsted, Surgeon
.

CHAPTER 10

97   
Big crowd…
J. M. T. Finney,
A Surgeon’s Life: The Autobiography of J. M. T. Finney
(New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1940).

CHAPTER 11

101   
Between an hotel…
William Osler, MD, “The Inner History of the Johns Hopkins Hospital,”
Johns Hopkins Medical Journal
125, no. 4 (October 1969): 187.

102   
Osler recommended…
Ibid.

CHAPTER 12

105   
Welch believed…
William H. Welch to Emma Welch Walcott, October 23, 1888, Michael Bliss,
William Osler: A Life in Medicine
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 172.

105   
Billings had visited…
Osler,
The Inner History
, 186.

106   
It makes one’s blood boil…
Harvey Cushing,
The Life of Sir William Osler, Vol. I
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1926), 307.

CHAPTER 13

112   
The operating room…
Hugh Young,
A Surgeon’s Autobiography
(New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1940), 60.

114   
Operating table…
Young,
A Surgeon’s Autobiography
, 59. 114
Nurse Caroline Hampton…
Finney,
A Surgeon’s Life
, 89.

CHAPTER 14

117   
Thirty-eight years old… Surgical Papers by William Stewart Halsted
(Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press, 1924), 16.

122   
250 clamps…
Michael P. Osborne, “William Stewart Halsted: His Life and Contributions to Surgery,”
Lancet Oncology
8 (2007): 256–65.

123   
a mistaken kindness to the patient…
Ibid.

CHAPTER 15

127   
duty bootie… Johns Hopkins University Gazette
, May 15, 2006: 2.

128   Description of tea party. MacCallum and Welch,
William Stewart Halsted, Surgeon
, 82.

130   Letter from Halsted to Mall. Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives, Johns Hopkins University.

131   Letter from Caroline Hampton to Lucy Baxter. Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives, Johns Hopkins University.

133   
There I was alone…
Samuel J. Crowe, “Personal Recollections of Dr. Halsted,”
Surgery
12, no. 3 (September 1952): 464.

134   
Halsted has taken a large house…
Neil A. Graven,
Annals of Hopkins
, Winter 2007.

135   
a great student… white oak or hickory…
MacCallum and Welch,
William Stewart Halsted, Surgeon
.

CHAPTER 16

141   
This was the first intimation…
William Osler, MD, “The Inner History of the Johns Hopkins Hospital,”
Johns Hopkins Medical Journal
125, no. 4 (October 1969): 184–94.

CHAPTER 17

147   
William T. Bull… Surgical Papers by William Stewart Halsted
(Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1924): 266.

150   
150
Just one question, Kelly…
James F. Mitchell, MD, “Memories of Dr. Halsted,”
Surgery
32, no. 3 (September 1952): 456.

152   
Give him morphia…
James F. Mitchell, MD, “Memories of Dr. Halsted,”
Surgery
32, no. 3 (September 1952): 451–60.

152   
second hernia patient… Surgical Papers by William Stewart Halsted
, 276.

153   
Mitchell, I have an awful headache…
Ibid.

154   
Dear Mitchell. I telephoned…
Ibid.

CHAPTER 18

161   
Ah, but we are…
Finney,
A Surgeon’s Life
.

CHAPTER 19

167   
The White Owl of High Hampton…
“William Stewart Halsted,” lecture by Dr. Peter D. Olch and J. Scott Rankin,
Annals of Surgery
243, no. 3 (March 2006): 418–25.

168   
land purchases…
Letter to Halsted from Frank R. Frost, December 22, 1902, Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archive, Johns Hopkins University.

170   
Halsted’s pajamas…
George Heuer, unpublished biography of Halsted, 74.

173   
salouchy…
Daniel B. Nunn, “Interview with Madge Dillard Merrel: Caroline Hampton, an Eccentric but Well Matched Help Mate,”
Perspectives in Biology & Medicine
42 (1998).

179   
“general talk”…
Ibid.

CHAPTER 20

184   
Mary Elizabeth Garrett…
Flexner,
William Henry Welch and the Heroic Age of American Medicine
, 219.

188   
Mall telegraphed…
Ibid., 226.

CHAPTER 21

189   
When a student complained…
Michael Bliss,
Willam Osler, A Life in Medicine
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).

CHAPTER 22

193   
Have you ever made a bloodcount?…
James F. Mitchell, MD, “Memories of Dr. Halsted,”
Surgery
32, no. 3 (September 1952): 452.

195   
When I went to the…
Joseph Colt Bloodgood, MD, FACS, “Halsted Thirty-Six Years Ago,”
The American Journal of Surgery
14, no. 1 (October 1931): 98.

196   
He made a few mistakes…
Ibid.

200   
Halsted and relieved Mitchell…
James F. Mitchell, MD, “Memories of Dr. Halsted,”
Surgery
32, no. 3 (September 1952): 451–60.

CHAPTER 23

210   
I wanted to write…
Letter from Caroline Halsted to William Halsted, Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives, Johns Hopkins University.

212   
practical jokes…
Flexner,
William Henry Welch and the Heroic Age of American Medicine
, 172.

213   
referring to a chordee
… William Rheinoff,
Personal Reminiscence of
JHMS
, 17.

213   
Finney tells of a telephone call…
Finney,
A Surgeon’s Life
, 295–6.

216   
Crim…
Young,
A Surgeon’s Autobiography
, 61.

CHAPTER 24

222   
When one of the three female students …graduate…
Bliss,
William Osler, A Life in Medicine
.

225   
On that armchair…
Young,
Hugh Young: A Surgeon’s Autobiography
, 66.

CHAPTER 25

232   
The talk was of pathology…
Samuel James Crowe, MD,
Halsted of Johns Hopkins
(Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas Publishers, 1957), 66.

238   
Keep your mouth…
Michael Bliss,
Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2005).

241   
Hunterian Laboratory…
Crowe,
Halsted of Johns Hopkins
, 70–71.

CHAPTER 26

248   Halsted bills.

251   
Among the Hopkins men were any number of fashion plates…
Finney,
A Surgeon’s Life
, 95.

255   
Cushing believed both Halsted…
Bliss,
Harvey Cushing: A Life In Surgery
, 117.

CHAPTER 27

258   
Surgery would be…
Willis D. Gatch, MD,
Surgery
32, no. 3 (1952): 168. 260
Oh yes, Young…
Young,
Hugh Young: A Surgeon’s Autobiography
.

260   
dilate the bladder…
Ibid.

261   
The following October…
Ibid., 76.

262   
Why can’t I get over…
George Heuer, unpublished biography of Halsted, 52.

262   
a nod or a sly smile…
Ibid.

263   
which they named Mercurochrome…
Young,
Hugh Young: A Surgeon’s Autobiography
, 245–55.

CHAPTER 28

271   
Levin Waters…
Surgical Papers by William Stewart Halsted, Vol. I (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1924): 311–13.

275   
Heuer, I fear we are in trouble…
George Heuer, unpublished biography of Halsted.

275   
Dr. Halsted… in spite of it…
Willis D. Gatch, MD,
Surgery
32, no. 3 (1952): 168.