Halsted

American  

[hawl-stid, -sted] / ˈhɔl stɪd, -stɛd /

noun

1. William Stewart Brill, 1852–1922, U.S. surgeon and educator.

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Halsted Scientific  

/ hôl′stĕd′ /

1. American surgeon who discovered the technique of local anesthesia by injecting cocaine into specific nerves in 1885. He administered what is believed to be the first blood transfusion in the United States in 1881. Halsted also developed new surgical techniques for treating cancers and other abnormalities and introduced the use of rubber gloves during surgery.

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Example Sentences

Long before Mayor Richard M. Daley anointed the area bounded by Briar Place to the south, Halsted Street to the west, and North Broadway to the east as the nation’s first official gay village in 1997, the community had already made that roughly triangular patch in Lakeview East its home decades before.

From Salon

At the end of January, I was walking south on North Halsted Street in Boystown.

From Salon

Brandi Halsted, a mental health clinician who met with Dominguez at the jail, testified that he said he was disappointed in himself.

From Los Angeles Times

Two days later, Dominguez talked to Halsted about the future, telling her that he wants to have a home, wife and children and live in the Bay Area.

From Los Angeles Times

Ms. Muller attended Halsted and began her dance training there.

From New York Times