Watson Cheyne
Sir William Watson Cheyne (* December 14, 1852 at sea off Hobart, Tasmania, † April 19, 1932 ) was a British surgeon.
Cheyne was the son of a captain in the merchant navy. His mother died when he was four years old, so he mother with his grandfather, a priest, and then grew up with his aunt in Fetlar. Beginning in 1864, he attended Aberdeen Grammar School and in 1868 the King's College in Aberdeen. Because he wanted to go to sea as a ship's doctor, he began in 1871 medicine at the University of Edinburgh to study, where in 1875 he made his degrees in medicine and surgery.
It was founded in 1876 house - surgeon Joseph Lister, the pioneer of antiseptic medicine in the UK, at King's College Hospital in London. First he was there, Assistant Surgeon, Surgeon from 1880 and from 1891 Professor of Surgery. He was a follower Listers influenced antiseptic questions and also strongly by Robert Koch, whose laboratory in Berlin he visited in 1886. He dealt with tuberculosis research and experimented with chef's tuberculin, but which he found only limited effect.
After he was from 1900 to 1901 in the Boer War Consulting Surgeon of the British Army, he was Consulting Surgeon to the Royal Navy in 1914 and 1915, a short time Surgeon General ( Surgeon General ) of the Royal Navy. Later he was also Surgeon Rear- Admiral.
In 1917 he retired and was in the same year, Member of Parliament for the Universities of Edinburgh and St Andrews ( from 1918 for the United Scottish universities) for the Scottish Unionist Party. He remained until 1922 in the Parliament.
In 1919 he became Lord Lieutenant of Orkney and Shetland, which he remained until 1930. From 1922 he lived in Fetlar.
He was a Fellow of the Rocal College of Surgeons of England ( FRCS ), which he was president from 1914 to 1916, Knight of the Order of St Michael and St George ( KCMG ) and Commander of the Order of the Bath (CB). In 1910 he became Honorary Surgeon in Ordinary of King George V. In 1924, he received the first Lister Medal. In 1894 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1908 he received the peer - dignity ( Baron).
Writings
- Antiseptic Surgery: Its Principles, Practice, History and Results, 1882, Online
- Lister and His Achievement, 1925 ( Lister Oration )
- On the Treatment of tuberculous Diseases in Their Surgical Aspect, 1900 ( Harvey Lecture 1899)
- Tuberculosis of bones and joints disease: their pathology, symptoms and treatment, 1895, Online
- Manual of the antiseptic treatment of wounds, 1885, Online
- With Frederic Francis Burghard, John Frederick William Silk: A Manual of Surgical Treatment, seven volumes, from 1899