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William Cheselden

British surgeon and teacher
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Born:
Oct. 19, 1688, Somerby, Leicestershire, Eng.
Died:
April 10, 1752, Bath, Somersetshire (aged 63)
Subjects Of Study:
anatomy
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William Cheselden (born Oct. 19, 1688, Somerby, Leicestershire, Eng.—died April 10, 1752, Bath, Somersetshire) was a British surgeon and teacher of anatomy and surgery who wrote Anatomy of the Human Body (1713) and Osteographia, or the Anatomy of the Bones (1733). The former was used as a text by anatomy students for nearly a century. Cheselden was apprenticed to a Mr. Wilkes, surgeon of Leicester. He also studied under the anatomist William Cowper in 1703 and under James Ferne, a surgeon and lithotomist (specialist in removal of bladder stones) at St. Thomas’ Hospital. By 1711 he was already established as ...(100 of 235 words)

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