Letter 3042

William Cheselden to Hans Sloane – June 13, 1724


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Date: June 13, 1724
Author: William Cheselden
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: f. 190



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Cheselden has sent the bearer, who carries a case history. William Cheselden was a surgeon and anatomist. He made several contributions to the Philosophical Transactions, held appointments at St Thomas’s and St George’s hospitals in London, and participated in the affairs of the Barber-Surgeons’ Company (John Kirkup, Cheselden, William (16881752), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5226, accessed 1 Aug 2013]).




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