Background
William Cheselden was born at Somerby, Leicestershire, on the 19th of October 1688.
William Cheselden was born at Somerby, Leicestershire, on the 19th of October 1688.
William Cheselden studied anatomy in London under William Cowper (1666- 1709).
William Cheselden 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's 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's in 1738, and died at Bath on the 10th of April 1752. Cheselden is famous for his " lateral operation for the stone, " which he first performed in 1727.