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Welch, William Henry(encyclopedia)
Welch, William(medicine)
Henry, William(medicine)
Talbot, William Henry Fox(dictionary)
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Fallen Timbers, Battle of (sh) and Welch, William Henry (sh)


Fallen Timbers, Battle of (sh)




(Aug. 20, 1794) Decisive victory of U.S. Gen.

Anthony Wayne over the northwestern Indian Confederation, securing white settlement of former Indian territory, mainly in Ohio. Wayne led more than 1,000 soldiers to confront the 2,000 Indians, who had been promised British support and who had gathered behind a protective tangle of fallen trees along the Maumee River (near modern Toledo). The Indians, abandoned by the British, fled in disarray. A treaty in 1795 ceded Indian lands to the U.S. and ended British influence in the area.


Welch, William Henry (sh)




born April 8, 1850, Norfolk, Conn., U.S.
died April 30, 1934, Baltimore, Md.

U.S. pathologist.

He studied pathology in Germany before returning to the U.S. to open the nation's first pathology laboratory, at Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York City (1879). From 1893 he directed the rise of Johns Hopkins University, where he developed the country's first true university department of pathology. He recruited William Osler and William S. Halsted for the faculty and was the medical school's first dean (1893-98). His curriculum revolutionized U.S. medicine by demanding that students study physical sciences and be actively involved in clinical duties and laboratory work. Welch also demonstrated the effects of diphtheria toxin and discovered bacteria involved in wound fever and gas gangrene.