Halsted

[ hawl-stid, -sted ]

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noun

Halsted

/ hôl′stĕd′ /

American surgeon who discovered the technique of local anesthesia by injecting cocaine into specific nerves in 1885. He administered what is believed to be the first blood transfusion in the United States in 1881. Halsted also developed new surgical techniques for treating cancers and other abnormalities and introduced the use of rubber gloves during surgery.

Talking with Coneys and Halsted dramatically revised my view of Lennon as a reclusive and contrary man.

Coneys chartered the Megan Jaye, a 43-ft sloop based in Newport, Rhode Island, and skippered by Hank Halsted.

Only Halsted and his inexperienced “cook” were left standing.

As mountainous seas rolled down upon them, smashing over the deck, Halsted left him to it.

Halsted and Coneys said they saw a new man standing on the deck afterwards.

“I hope their friends will please the Halsted Camp crowd better than we did,” said Dolly, sarcastically.

All the girls from Camp Halsted fell in with her suggestion, delighted by the idea of such an unplanned excursion.

Robert of Halsted, one knight's fee in Halsted, and half a knight's fee in Brockley.

He ran a little conthractin' business down be Halsted Sthreet 'Twas him built th' big shed f'r th' ice comp'ny.

He got a bottle of reddish-brown mixture from the druggist on Halsted Street near Sixty-third.

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