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Sir William Watson Cheyne, 1st Baronet: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born December 14, 1852 • near Hobart
Died April 19, 1932 (aged 79) • Scotland
Notable Works “Antiseptic Surgery: Its Principles, Practice, History and Results”
Subjects Of Study antiseptic • surgery
Joseph Lister
Joseph Lister
British surgeon and medical scientist
Sir Victor Horsley, c. 1910
Sir Victor Horsley
British surgeon
Sir Alexander Fleming sits holding a petri dish in one hand, wearing a suit and bow tie, with papers stacked beside him.
Alexander Fleming
Scottish bacteriologist
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John Fullarton
British surgeon and banker
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis
Ignaz Semmelweis
Hungarian physician
Billroth, Theodor
Theodor Billroth
Viennese surgeon
Alexis Carrel.
Alexis Carrel
French surgeon, sociologist, and biologist
William Crawford Gorgas.
William Crawford Gorgas
United States Army surgeon
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David Bruce
British physician
Edward Jenner
Edward Jenner
English surgeon
Pott, Sir Percivall
Sir Percivall Pott
English surgeon
Sir Ludwig Guttmann stands smiling at Heathrow Airport, speaking with British Paralympian Karen Hill and another female Paralympian in wheelchairs, with an airplane in the background.
Ludwig Guttmann
English neurosurgeon
Fiona Wood, 2005.
Fiona Wood
Australian surgeon
The “father of scientific surgery”
John Hunter
British surgeon
Bowman, Sir William, 1st Baronet
Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet
English surgeon and histologist
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Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, 1st Baron Moynihan
British surgeon
James Lind, engraving by I. Wright after a portrait by Sir George Chalmers, 1783
James Lind
British physician
Sir Ronald Ross, bronze relief by Frank Bowcher, 1929; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Ronald Ross
British doctor
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James Braid
British surgeon
Paget
Sir James Paget, 1st Baronet
British surgeon and physiologist