Quotes:Hammond, William Alexander H.

Zirkoff, Boris

Hammond, William Alexander H. American physician, b. at Annapolis, Aug. 28, 1828; d. at Washington, Jan. 5, 1900. Son of a physician; studied at Harrisburg and graduated in medicine at New York Univ., 1848; Practiced at Philadelphia Hospital; then was Ass. Surgeon of the Army; 1859, Prof. of physiology and anatomy at Baltimore Univ.; 1860 went back to the Army, serving in Gen. Patterson's Hdqrts.; 1862, became Brig.-General and Surgeon-Gen. of the Army. Founded the Army Medical Museum. Resigned in 1864, went to New York and became Prof. of Psychiatry and nervous diseases at College of Physicians and Surgeons; in 1874, held chair in these subjects at the Medical Faculty in New York. Chief works: The Medical and Surgical History of the Rebellion.-On Sleep and Its Derangements, Philadelphia, 1869. – Physics and Physiology of Spiritualism, Philad., 1870.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 1, pp. 465-466

Hammond, Dr. Wm. A. (1828-1900). Vide Vol. I, pp. 465-66, for biogr. data.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 2, p. 531

Hammond, William Alexander H. (1828-1900). *On Sleep and its Derangements, Philadelphia, 1869. See Vol. I, pp. 465-66, for biogr. data.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 3, p. 510