Cheyne, Sir William Watson (1852-1932)

On the use of hypochlorite solutions in the treatment of war-wounds, with notes of cases in the Dardanelles Campaign, September-October 1915 (20 ll.).

Fragment of a War-diary, 11-21 September 1917 (67 ll.).

(Both items above, author's holograph MSS.)

Hunterian Oration on the treatment of wounds in war 1915: typescript with holograph corrections and additions. (Incomplete).

1915-1917

1 volume 20 ll. + 67 ll. 8vo. & folio. 15 x 10 cm., 33 x 30 cm. Unbound. Some leaves of the typescript are very badly affected by water, and almost illegible. The Hunterian Oration is very incomplete: ff. 1-43, 91-114, 140-142, 166, 171-180, 183 and two part-leaves remain.

Presented 1933.

This eminent bacteriologist and surgeon had been assistant to Lister at Edinburgh in 1877, and was an ardent supporter of his ideas. Later he was surgeon to King's College Hospital in 1891, having been elected F.R.C.S. in 1879. He was Surgeon to the Army in 1899, was given a Baronetcy in 1908 and became Surgeon-General in 1915. See the Dictionary of National Biography.

These papers were obtained by a Mr. Laurenson of Leagarth, Fetlar, Shetland, having been recovered by him from the beach, when he was attending the sale of Sir W. W. Cheyne's belongings on July 26th, 1933.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).