Sir William Watson Cheyne, 1st Baronet

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The Fastest Animals on Earth

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The Seven Sacraments of the Roman Catholic church

9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes

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6 Questions About the History of Money and Banking Answered

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Born	December 14, 1852 • near Hobart
Died	April 19, 1932 (aged 79) • Scotland
Notable Works	“Antiseptic Surgery: Its Principles, Practice, History and Results”
Subjects Of Study	antiseptic • surgery

Joseph Lister

British surgeon and medical scientist

Sir Victor Horsley

British surgeon

Alexander Fleming

Scottish bacteriologist

Ignaz Semmelweis

Hungarian physician

Theodor Billroth

Austrian surgeon

Alexis Carrel

French surgeon, sociologist, and biologist

William Crawford Gorgas

United States Army surgeon

David Bruce

British physician

Edward Jenner

English surgeon

Sir Percivall Pott

English surgeon

Ludwig Guttmann

English neurosurgeon

Fiona Wood

Australian surgeon

John Hunter

British surgeon

Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet

English surgeon and histologist

Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, 1st Baron Moynihan

British surgeon

James Lind

British physician

Sir Ronald Ross

British doctor

James Braid

British surgeon

Sir James Paget, 1st Baronet

British surgeon and physiologist

Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet

British physiologist

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