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The Bizarre Double Life of Dr. William Stewart Halsted
Kaplan Publishing
February 2012
On Sale: February 2, 2012
410 pages
ISBN: 1607146274
EAN: 9781607146278
Kindle: B003YFJ5PY
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Non-Fiction Biography
Dr. William Stewart Halsted’s life was fascinating and
complex. Halsted, perhaps the most important surgeon America
has ever produced, battled a lifelong cocaine addiction and
maintained numerous secret relationships while
simultaneously devising revolutionary medical innovations.
Yet the story of Halsted’s life, one of seemingly
irreconcilable extremes, is in many ways the story of modern
medicine. Before Halsted, poorly-trained doctors performed surgery
without anesthesia in unsanitary conditions and patients
were rarely expected to survive. Halstead transformed the
medical practice by inventing local and spinal anesthesia;
introducing the use of rubber gloves during surgery;
pioneering the use of fine silk thread for sutures;
developing techniques for stabilizing blood pressure during
surgery; and inventing the radical mastectomy, blood
transfusions, and surgical cures for hernias. Genius on the Edge is an illuminating biography of a complex
and troubled man whose brilliance we continue to benefit
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