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Hammond, William A

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Hammond, William A(lexander) (1828–1900)

US neurologist and army doctor. As army surgeon general from 1862–64, he reformed and reorganized the army medical department to meet the burden of tens of thousands of wounded and sick Union soldiers. He supervised more than 230 army general hospitals. Secretary of War Edwin Stanton dismissed Hammond on trivial charges in 1864, but a review board exonerated him in 1879. As a civilian, he taught at medical schools, started medical journals, produced several publications, including the pioneering text, Treatise on Diseases of the Nervous System (1871), and helped advanced the treatment of nervous and mental diseases. Hammond was born in Annapolis, Maryland.



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