biography
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Hammond, William A(lexander)
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| lived:
| (1828–1900)
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| biography:
| Neurologist and army doctor, born in Annapolis, Maryland, USA. As army surgeon general in 1862–4, he reformed and reorganized the army medical department to meet the burden of tens of thousands of wounded and sick Union soldiers, and supervised more than 230 army general hospitals. In 1864 he was dismissed on trivial charges by secretary of war Edwin Stanton, but a review board exonerated him in 1879. As a civilian he taught at medical schools, started medical journals, wrote much, including the pioneer text, Treatise on Diseases of the Nervous System (1871), and generally advanced the treatment of nervous and mental diseases. |
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