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HAMILTON, Frank Hastings (1813 – 1886)

HAMILTON, Frank Hastings (1813 – 1886)

1813 – 1886

3 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1854 CE

#5747

Elkoplasty, or anaplasty applied to the treatment of old ulcers.

HAMILTON, Frank Hastings (1813 – 1886)
HAMILTON, Frank Hastings (1813 – 1886)

Hamilton was among the first to treat ulcers by skin-grafting. He made the flap smaller than the space which it was intended to fill, “trusting to growth and expansion of the graft to complete the cure”. A…

1855 CE

#1742

Deformities after fractures.

HAMILTON, Frank Hastings (1813 – 1886)
HAMILTON, Frank Hastings (1813 – 1886)

Hamilton was a medical inspector of the U.S. Army and later became Professor of Surgery at Bellevue Hospital. See No. 4420.

1860 CE

#4420

A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations.

HAMILTON, Frank Hastings (1813 – 1886)
HAMILTON, Frank Hastings (1813 – 1886)

The first comprehensive treatise in English on the treatment of fractures and dislocations. See No. 1742.