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William Stewart Halsted
William Stewart Halsted (b. September 23, 1852 New York City; d. September 7, 1922 Baltimore, Maryland) is one of modern surgery's great founding fathers. Founder of the American surgical residency training program, he is also well-known for his many other medical and surgical achievements. Halsted designed and implented gloves for surgical use. He also invented the radical mastectomy as a treatment for breast cancer. He was the first to suggest the replacement of blood during surgery and one of the first proponents of homeostasis.

Halsted attended Phillips Academy at Andover and received his B.A. from Yale University in 1874.

Associated eponyms:

Halsted's law Transplanted tissue will grow only if there is a lack of that tissue in the host.

Halsted's operation I Operation for inguinal hernia.

Halsted's operation II Radical mastectomy for cancer of the breast.

Halsted's sign A sign for carcinoma of the breast.

Halsted's suture A suture for wounds.