Talk:William Stewart Halsted

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i believe two of their dachshunds were, in fact, named "Nip" and "Tuck." What led you to believe that this was false? Was told this by someone who had visited their home, now the High Hampton Inn. Have written the Inn to verify.

Dachshunds
According to MacCallum's biography of Halsted, they had several dachshunds. Sisly and Nip were mentioned in one of Halsted's letters as dying in 1915, within a few months of each other. Maristoddard 18:01, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

not sure.
i dont really understand much about this man. what were the probles, limitations and what was the oposistion when he was a surgeon???Lickle-sophii 10:38, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

More trivia about Halsted.
Halsted was an opiate addict during his highly successful career. See http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/studies/cu/cu5.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.49.41.5 (talk) 01:39, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

His opiate addition started as a way to get off his cocaine addition. There are many references and stories on this http://www.jhasim.com/files/articlefiles/pdf/XASIM_Master_6_3_Editorial%20-%20short.pdf

Some of his most prolific times were when he was a cocaine addict in NYC, operating with what the book "the emperor of all maladies" calls "Olympian exertion" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.136.229.157 (talk) 20:24, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

Also he constantly fought the addiction to cocaine while in the operating room because cocaine was a common local anesthetic during this time period. Apatera517 (talk) 15:38, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

Yale-Eton football?
yale played eton? are we talking about eton school? as in 'england's battles are won on the playing fields of eton'? what game did they play? i would have thought that eton would have played rugby union.also, yale's a university, eton is a secondary school. then there's the small matter of the ocean in between them. one thing and another, i'd like to see a citation for this.Toyokuni3 (talk) 20:56, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Citations/Minor Edits

 * At the bottom of the article, it is written that William and Caroline Halsted had three dahilas. Actually, they have four dachshunds named Nip, Fritz, Tuck, and Sisly according to Howard Markel's An Anatomy of Addiction. Additionally, the first three paragraphs under Medical Career are not cited, and the citation #9's link does not work. Csong22 (talk) 22:03, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

minor citation question
One of the sources was linked to the Hopkins medicine webpage. Since it is Halsted's wikipedia page and he was one of the staff at Hopkins medical school, I am not sure if that would serve as a biased source of citation. Also, a webpage does not seem to be a valid source for me. It would be better if a different source such as a published book is used. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hty118 (talk • contribs) 04:33, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

Use of gloves
The article of his wife Caroline Hampton says that she was the first person to use gloves during surgery, not he himself. He and surgeons slowly started to use the gloves later. Also, it explains the reason, which was her contact dermatitis and not primarily aseptic working, which would rather be discovered on occasion. --SamWinchester000 (talk) 00:31, 29 September 2017 (UTC)