title: William Halsted (1852-1922): one of America's greatest surgeons and the surgical treatment of breast cancer.
abstract: Halsted, an awe-inspiring teacher, more than any other American surgeon, innovated the American surgery and created the foundation on which the American school of surgery rests. Halsted is regarded as the individual who popularised the use of surgical rubber gloves, of "Listerism", of local anaesthesia and established a new effective surgical treatment of breast cancer.
authors.affiliation: Institute of History of Medicine, University Claude Bernard, Lyon, France.
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authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Androutsos