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HAMMOND, William Alexander (1828 – 1900)

HAMMOND, William Alexander (1828 – 1900)

1828 – 1900

3 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1871 CE

#4542

Treatise on diseases of the nervous system.

The first American treatise on neurology. The original description of athetosis, sometimes called “Hammond’s disease”, appears on pp. 654-62. During his tenure as Surgeon General of the Army during t…

1879 CE

#14295

Fasting girls: their physiology and pathology.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1883 CE

#12752

Sexual impotence in the male.

One of the earliest serious medical studies of the subject from the anatomical, physiological, emotional, and psychological points of view. In the second edition (1887) retitled Sexual impotence in the male and female…