Anatomy Acts - 29 The Anatomy of the Human Body 2nd ed

Cheselden was famed as one of the fastest and most skillful surgeons in England. He could remove bladder stones in two minutes when most other surgeons of the time would take around twenty and was the first to perform an iridectomy, the removal of part of the iris from the eye. Alexander Pope wrote: ‘I’d do what Mead and Cheselden advise/To keep these limbs and to preserve these eyes’. In 1733 Cheselden published Osteographia or the Anatomy of Bones which was the first detailed volume of images of all the human bones.




	Anatomy Acts Object Guide No.29 The Anatomy of the Human Body 2nd ed, 1722 William Cheselden Courtesy of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh , RR F22

	Cheselden was famed as one of the fastest and most skillful surgeons in England. He could remove bladder stones in two minutes when most other surgeons of the time would take around twenty and was the first to perform an iridectomy, the removal of part of the iris from the eye. Alexander Pope wrote: ‘I’d do what Mead and Cheselden advise/To keep these limbs and to preserve these eyes’. In 1733 Cheselden published Osteographia or the Anatomy of Bones which was the first detailed volume of images of all the human bones.
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