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Cheselden was born at Somerby, Leicestershire. He studied anatomy in London under William Cowper (1666-1709), and in 1713 published his Anatomy of the Human Body, which achieved great popularity and went through thirteen editions. In 1718 he was appointed an assistant surgeon at St Thomas' Hospital (London), becoming full surgeon in the following year, and he was also chosen one of the surgeons to St George's Hospital on its foundation in 1733. He retired from St Thomas' in 1738, and died at Bath.

Cheselden is famous for his lateral operation for the stone, which he first performed in 1727. He also effected a great advance in ophthalmic surgery by his operation of iridectomy, described in 1728, for the treatment of certain forms of blindness by the production of an artificial pupilThe term pupil can also mean student. pupil is the central transparent area (showing as black). The greenish-yellow area surrounding it is the iris. The white outer area is the sclera, the central transparent part of which is the cornea. In the eye, the p. He attended Sir Isaac NewtonKneller's portrait of 1689. Sir Isaac Newton ( December 25, 1642 March 20, 1727 by the Julian calendar then in use; or January 4, 1643 March 31, 1727 by the Gregorian calendar) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and alchemis in his last illness, and was an intimate friend of Alexander PopeAlexander Pope ( May 21, 1688 May 30, 1744) was a well known English poet and writer. Born to a Catholic family in 1688, Alexander was educated mostly outside "normal" schools and colleges as a result of the penal laws that were in force at the time to up and of Sir Hans SloaneSir Hans Sloane ( 1660- 1753) was an Ulster-Scot collector and physician. He was born on April 16, 1660 at Killyleagh in County Down, Ireland, where his father had settled as the head of a Scottish colony sent over by James I. Even as a youth, he collecte.

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