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Title
Date(s)
- 1899-1951 (Creation)
Level of description
Subseries
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
One file of miscellaneous papers relating mainly to obstetrics, and comprising rough notes on embryology, the staining of blood, the condition of bones, and sketching the topography of the brain, 1899; a list of examination questions from the Royal College of Physicians of London and Royal College of Surgeons of England midwifery exam, 10 July 1902; King's College London Faculty of Medicine Tanner Prize examination question paper on obstetrics, 16 July, 1902; list of questions from the King's College London Faculty of Medicine Obstetric Medicine Prize Class Examination, 17 July, 1902; two examination appointment cards for Cheatle issued by the Royal College of Physicians of London and the Royal College of Surgeons for examinations leading to membership of the Colleges, taking place at the Exam Hall, Victoria Embankment, London, 14, 21 October 1903; programme sheet for a complimentary dinner in honour of Sir William Watson Cheyne at the Waldorf Hotel, London, 17 July 1908; circular from the Ministry of Health on orthopaedic services and on tetanus antitoxin,10 August 1946; an errata page from a printed formulary; typescript summaries of the symptoms and treatment of nasal catarrh and the means of avoiding accidental haemorrhage of the placenta [1945-1951]; photograph, probably late nineteenth century showing reclining clergyman in a walled garden, probably a cathedral or university cloister.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born, 1865; educated Merchant Taylors' School, London, Medical Department, King's College London, 1883-1892; House Surgeon, King's College Hospital, 1888, House Physician, 1889, Sambrooke Surgical Registrar, 1889; Demonstrator of Surgical Pathology, 1892-1894; Assistant Surgeon to King's College Hospital, 1893; Surgeon and Teacher of Surgical Pathology, 1900, replaced Frederic Francis Burghard as Senior Surgeon and Lecturer of Surgery, 1923; Consulting Surgeon, Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902; Surgeon-Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy, serving at the Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar, Portsmouth and on a hospital ship in the Gallipoli Campaign, 1915; Fellow of King's College London, 1919; retired 1930; Consulting Surgeon to the Hospital and Emeritus Lecturer on Clinical Surgery in the Medical School, 1930; awarded Walker Prize by the Royal College of Surgeons for work on the Pathology and Therapeutics of Cancer, reflecting a life-long interest in carcinomas, especially cancer of the breast, 1931; Honorary Fellow of the College of Surgeons of America, 1932; died 1951.
Publications: Honing Spruit, South Africa (London, 1902); with Max Cutler, Tumours of the breast. Their pathology, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment (Arnold and Co., London, 1931).
Repository
Custodial history
Dr Richard Eager, a relation of Cheatle, donated the papers to King's College Hospital in 1984.
Conditions governing access
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.
Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Archives.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Physical Description
English
Finding aids
This collection level description.
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People and Organisations
- Cheyne, Sir William Watson, 1852-1932, Knight, Surgeon Rear Admiral (Subject)
- King's College London Faculty of Medicine (Subject)
- Ministry of Health (Subject)
- Royal College of Physicians of London (Subject)
- Royal College of Surgeons of England (Subject)
- King's College Hospital, London, 1840- (Subject)
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Archivist's note
Herbert Willoughby Lyle, King's and some King's men (London, 1935); King's College London Calendars; Who's who; British Library OPAC. Entry compiled by Geoff Browell