William Alexander Hammond

Portrait of William Alexander Hammond, MD (1828-1900). Dr. Hammond received his MD from University Medical College in 1848. He served as Surgeon General of the U.S. Army from 1862 to 1864. He taught at Bellevue Hospital Medical College as Professor of Diseases of Mind and Nervous System from 1867 to 1874, and Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics from 1872 to 1874. He then taught at University Medical College as Professor of Mind and Nervous System from 1874 to 1882. A pioneer in nervous and mental diseases, Dr. Hammond published A Treatise on Diseases of the Nervous System in 1871, the first textbook of its kind in the English language.