Hammond, William Alexander H.

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William Alexander H. Hammond

(English: William Alexander H. Hammond)

(28 August 1828 − 5 January 1900)

American physician. Became Brig.-General and Surgeon-Gen. of the Army, 1862; founded the Army Medical Museum. Resigned in 1864 and became Prof. of Psychiatry and nervous diseases at College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. Chief works: The Medical and Surgical History of the Rebellion, On Sleep and Its Derangements (1869), *Physics and Physiology of Spiritualism (1870). (BCW 1:465-466).

The Appendix refers readers to BCW I, 465-466 for biographical information. (BCW 2:531).

Author of On Sleep and its Derangements, Philadelphia, 1869. (BCW 3:510).

Some links:

• Quotes: Zirkoff, Boris
• CTD article in Russian: Хаммонд, Уильям Александр Х.
• Wikipedia: William Alexander Hammond

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Lifetime: 1828-1900
Shortly: American physician. Became Brig.-General and Surgeon-Gen. of the Army, 1862; founded the Army Medica...