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In 1844, aged 16 years, Hammond moved to New York City (NY, USA) to receive medical training from William Holme Van Buren, a surgeon who also served as a professor of anatomy at the University Medical College in New York (now known as the New York University School of Medicine) and who had previously served in the US Army and possibly assisted Hammond's career in the military. [...]On finding himself once in the ‘dry’ state of Rhode Island [where alcohol was prohibited], he wrote himself a prescription for vini campaniae to be taken p.r.n. [when necessary]”, Bonnie Ellen Blustein notes in her biography of Hammond. New York: Appleton & Company. 1871 For more on Hammond's initiatives to improve sanitation in the US Army see https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/27/william-hammond-and-the-end-of-the-medical-middle-ages/ For the history of the American Neurological Association see https://myana.org/historical-overview For the medical reports in the early 1880s see The Medical Times and Gazette: A Journal of Medical Science, Literature, Criticism, and News.