Genius on the Edge: The Bizarre Double Life of Dr. William Stewart Halsted (52 page)

CHAPTER 29

278   
Alfred Blalock…
The Allan Mason Chesney Archives, Johns Hopkins Medical Institute.

280
I have not seen the Professor…
Harvey Cushing,
The Life of Sir William Osler, Vol. II
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1926).

280   
This is an ideal spot…
MacCallum and Welch,
William Stewart Halsted, Surgeon
, 192–93.

280   
Hotel Continental…
Ibid. CHAPTER 31

CHAPTER 31

287   
1,343 buildings…
Robert L. Vexler,
Baltimore, A Chronological & Documentary History
(Dobbs Ferry, NY: Oceana Publications, 1975), 70.

288   
As early as 1899…
Letter from Harvey Cushing to Hugh Auchincloss, December 13, 1937.

289   
The Professor’s office suite…
George Heuer, unpublished biography of Halsted, 61.

291   
Halsted was operating…
Ibid.

292   
They came from long …five minutes’ visit!…
George Heuer, unpublished biography of Halsted.

CHAPTER 32

297    “
full time”…
Donald Fleming,
William H. Welch and the Rise of Modern Medicine
(Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1954), 165.

298   
Osler was outraged…
David Dary,
Frontier Medicine
(New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2005), 307.

299   
Only 50 of 155…
Flexner,
William Henry Welch and the Heroic Age of American Medicine
, 307.

300   
If the school could get…
Flexner,
William Henry Welch and the Heroic Age of American Medicine
, 308.

300   
I did not take way…
Fleming,
William H. Welch and the Rise of Modern Medicine
, 177.

301   
a faculty of Halsteds…
Ibid., 178.

301   
Leading members of the faculty, including Kelly…
Bliss,
Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery
, 383–84.

304   
304
The coming of full time…
Letter to the trustees, Alan M. Chesney, MD,
Surgery
32, no. 3: 482–84.

304   
that there were men…
MacCallum and Welch,
William Stewart Halsted, Surgeon
.

304   
We should utterly fail…
Letter to the trustees, Alan M. Chesney, MD,
Surgery
32, no. 3: 482–84.

CHAPTER 33

308   
There was no personal banter…
George Heuer, unpublished biography of Halsted, 56.

308   
Heuer is that you…
Ibid., 57–58.

309   
Why, Heuer, she has a dirty umbilicus…
Ibid.

309   
Halsted now operated…
Ibid., 48–49.

312   
Halsted, I am opposed to this…
Samuel James Crowe, MD,
Halsted of Johns Hopkins
(Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas Publishers, 1957), 148.

313   Heuer at Eutaw Place. George Heuer, unpublished biography of Halsted.

313   
Walter Edward Dandy…
Crowe,
Halsted of Johns Hopkins
, 85–88.

318   
Dandy was offered the professorship…
William F. Rienhoff, Jr., MD,
Personal Reminiscence of the Johns Hopkins Medical School and The JH Surgical Service, 1915–1960
.

CHAPTER 34

322   
Once, in the saloon… and everyone but he had a good laugh…
MacCallum and Welch,
William Stewart Halsted, Surgeon
, 68.

324   
Halsted, at a loss…
Rienhoff,
Personal Reminiscence of the Johns Hopkins Medical School
, 9.

325   
I would warn against…
William Stewart Halsted,
Journal of the American Medical Association
73 (1896, 1919).

325   
I shall never cease to mourn…
MacCallum and Welch,
William Stewart Halsted, Surgeon
, 199.

325   
I find words… who has ever used it…
Ibid.

325   
Tegmen, deligate, and defract…
Ibid., 188.

326   
If you put ‘perhaps’… you will not be blamed…
Willis D. Gatch, MD, “My Experiences with Dr. Halsted,”
Surgery
13, no. 3: 467.

328   
Heuer commanded… chest wounds and trauma… Flanders Fields…
Finney,
A Surgeon’s Life
, 157–58, 181, 193–94.

CHAPTER 35

331   
As weighty events were unfolding overseas, the enigmatic Halsted was beginning a relationship…
Cameron, Gordon, et al., “William Stewart Halsted: Letters to a Young Admirer,”
Annals of Surgery
234, no. 5 (November 2001): 702–07.

334   
Halsted consulted with Dr. Thomas Boggs…
Finney,
A Surgeon’s Life
, 298.

337   Menu of dinner in Halsted’s honor. George Heuer, correspondence, New York Presbyterian Hospital Archives.

338   
As I was convalescing… assure himself of my comfort…
. George Heuer, correspondence, New York Presbyterian Hospital Archives.

338   
To Matas, Halsted wrote…
MacCallum and Welch,
William Stewart Halsted, Surgeon
, 224–25.

CHAPTER 36

341   
a furuncle on my firmament…
Letter from Halsted to Welch, August 3, 1922, Johns Hopkins Hospital Archives.

343   
On September 5, Caroline telegraphed…
Caroline Halsted, letter from Halsted Archive.

CHAPTER 37

345   
The entire small intestine…
Rienhoff,
Personal Reminiscence of the Johns Hopkins Medical School
, 28.

346   
Welch, on his deathbed…
Daniel B. Nunn, MD, “Dr. Halsted’s Addiction,”
Johns Hopkins Advanced Studies in Medicine
6, no. 3 (March 2006): 108.

347   
Dr. Halsted once said of them… about their brother’s wife…
Caroline Halsted, letter to William Welch, Halsted Archives.

347   
I sometimes wonder… that any man could ever be…
Caroline Halsted, letter to William Welch, Halsted Archives.

350   
Herbert Hoover…
Ceremonies in Washington, D.C., in honor of the eightieth birthday of Dr. Welch, April 8, 1930, in Victor O. Freeburg, ed.,
William Henry Welch at Eighty
, Millbank Memorial Fund, William H. Welch Medical Library, 22, 33–35.

Index

A

Abbott, Gilbert

Abdominal aneurysm

Abdominal surgery

Abel, John J.

Absence

Absences

Actinographer

Addiction

Admission requirements

Aequanimitas

Alcoholism

American Expeditionary Force

American Medical Association

American Surgical Association

Amputation

Anatomy

Anderson, Sherwood

Andover Academy

Anesthesia

Animal experimentation

Anthrax bacillus

Antique collections

Antisepsis

Antiseptic soaks

Antiseptic surgery

Antiseptic technique

Aorta

Aorta banding

Appearance

Appendectomies

Appendicitis

Arterial aneurysm

Artery forceps

Aseptic surgery

Aseptic technique

Astor Place Riot

Astronomer

Athletics

Autopsy

B

Bacteriologists

Bacteriology

Baetjer, Edwin

Baetjer, Frederick Henry

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

Baltimore Sun

Barker, Lewellys

Barnum, P.T.

Basedow’s disease

Bassini, Edoardo

Baxter, Lucy

Bedside chart

Bedside teacher

Bellevue Hospital internship

Bellevue Hospital Medical College

Bernays, Martha

Bichloride of mercury

Bilary colic

Bile duct draining

Billings, John Shaw

Baltimore

Big Four and

early medical staff

home surgeries

Hopkins (Johns) and

Johns Hopkins Hospital and

Johns Hopkins Medical School

Osler (William) and

U.S. medical education and

Billroth, Theodor

Birth

Black spot

Blackfan, Kenneth

Blackwell, Elizabeth

Bladder

Blalock, Alfred

Bleach

Bliss, Michael

Blood pressure

cuff

monitoring

Blood transfusion

Bloodgood, Joseph Colt

aseptic technique

Cushing (Harvey) and

experimental work

new departments

operating room

residency

Boggs, Thomas

Bonner, Rachel

Bradley, Douglas

Brady, James Buchanan

Brady Urological Institute

Brahms, Johannes

Brain

dissection

tumor

Breast cancer

Brewer, George

British Expeditionary Force

British Medical Journal

Broadway

Brockway, Fred W.

Baltimore

breast cancer

Johns Hopkins Hospital

residency

U.S. medical education

Brown, Tom

Brownstones

Bryn Mawr School

Bull, William T.

Bushnell, Rev. Samuel

Butler Hospital

C

Cabot and Chandler

Calcium metabolism

Camille

Carbolic acid

Carnegie, Andrew

Carnegie Commission

Carnegie Foundation for the

Advancement of Teaching

Carnegie Institution in Washington

Carrel, Alexis

Carrel-Dakin’s irrigation

Carter, Sally

Cashiers Valley

Catgut sutures

Central nervous system

Centre Street Dispensary

Centripetal transfusion, 43=44

Century Dictionary

Cézanne

Chamber pots

Chambers Street Hospital

Charity ward patients

Charvet shirts

Chemical tests

Chlorine hand wash

Chloroform

Cholecystitis, ix

Cholera epidemics

Cigarette smoking

Civil War

Clark, Alonzo

Clarke, George E.

Clark University

Clinical medicine

Clinical Society of Maryland

Clinics

Clothing

Cocaine

addiction by Halsted

as anesthesia

as snuff

Coeducation

Coffee

Cohnheim, Julius

College clubs

College of Physicians and Surgeons

College of the City of New York

Columbia College

Columbia University

Commonwealth Fire Insurance Company

Complete blood count

Compound fractures

Cone, Claribel

Cone, Etta

Contaminated air theory

Cook County Hospital

Cope, Oliver

Cornell

Councilman, William T.

in Baltimore

breast cancer

experimental work

John Hopkins Medical School

Osler (William) and

U.S. medical education

World War I and

Country life

Craniotomies

Crile Jr., George

Crim

Croton Distributing Reservoir

Crowe, Samuel

Cushing (Harvey) and

experimental work

home surgeries and

new departments

resident selection

thyroid research

in World War I

Crystal Palace

Cushing, Harvey

aseptic technique

in Baltimore

experimental work

hernia repairs

home surgeries

new departments

residency

scientist

Cystoscope

D

D. Appleton and Company

Dachsunds

Dahlia garden

Dalton, John C.

Dalton’s Physiology

Dandy, Walter Edward

Dandy Embryo

Davis, Egerton Y.

Dead space

DeBakey, Michael

Delafield, Francis

Demeanor

Dennis, Frederick

Dentistry

Depression

Detachment

Dickens, Charles

Dismissive behavior

Dissection experience

Dixon, George

Dog surgery

Donaldson, Frank

Draft Riots

Drawings

Drug addiction

Dumas

E

Edison, Thomas

Eiffel, Gustave

Einstein, Albert

Elective surgery

El Greco

Embryology