The New International Encyclopædia/Cheselden, William

CHESELDEN, chĕs′el-den, William (1688-1752). An English surgeon and anatomist. He commenced his medical studies in 1703, established himself as a lecturer on anatomy in 1711, and in the following year was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. He was afterwards appointed surgeon to Saint Thomas's, Saint George's, and Westminster hospitals, where he acquired a great reputation as an operator. His principal works are: Anatomy of the Human Body (1713), long a text-book on the subject in England; a Treatise on the High Operation for the Stone (1723); and Osteology, or Anatomy of the Bones (1733).