David William Campbell Stewart BA ALA

Surgn.-Genl. William Campbell Maclean

representative of the family known as the Macleans of Boreray (the first branch of the Macleans of Ardgour in Argyllshire) and had early in this century purchased the estate of Drimnin, in Morvern, on the Sound of Mull, from Macdonakl of Glenaladale. His mother was the youngest daughter of Donald Macleod, of Bernera, in the county of Inverness. The subject of this notice was their tenth child a...

William Stewart Halsted. Our surgical heritage.

William Stewart Halsted (1852-1922): father of American surgery.

William Stewart Halsted: his life and contributions to surgery.

William Stewart Halsted was a pioneer of surgery in the USA and made many wide-ranging contributions, including the surgical treatment of breast cancer. He changed the training of surgeons from a disorganised apprenticeship to the residency training programmes used today. Halsted's research developed a better understanding of surgically amenable disease and a multitude of new techniques and ope...

William Campbell Maclean, professor of military medicine, Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, 1861-1885.

He went to Edinburgh Medical School, then at the height of its fame as the most important in the world. He passed out as a licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons there in 1833 and graduated in medicine the next year. Having two brothers serving in the Bengal Army in India, he wanted to join the Army from a young age. His parents objected, as they did not think his health was strong enough ...