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Norman Chevers

1818 – 1886

English physician and surgeon

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Lived 1818 – 1886 (aged 68). Norman Chevers was a British surgeon.

Norman Chevers (1818–1886) was an English physician and surgeon of the Bengal Medical Service. He is known for research on constrictive pericarditis.

Life He was born at Greenhithe in Kent, the son of the naval surgeon Forbes Macbean Chevers and his wife Anne Talman. He was educated at Haslar, Guy's Hospital, and Glasgow University, where he graduated M.D. in 1839, aged 21.

After graduation Chevers worked for nine years at Guy's Hospital, researching in physiology, while in private practice in Upper Stamford Street, south London. He joined the Bengal Medical Service in 1848.

Views Chevers took burning feet syndrome to be a form of "malarial neuralgia". In later life he argued against the germ theory, in particular for enteric fever and cholera.

Physiological investigation by Chevers was used to argue against child marriage. He reported as true the origin of sati being the need to prevent wives poisoning husbands, in order to take a new lover. He was also a temperance advocate.

Works A Treatise on Removable and Mitigable Causes of Death (1852) A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence for Bengal and the North-Western Provinces (1856) The Sanitary Position and Obligations of the Inhabitants of Calcutta (1863), lecture to the Bethune Society A Commentary on the Diseases of India (1886)

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Who was Norman Chevers?

English physician and surgeon

When was Norman Chevers born?

Norman Chevers was born on 27 April 1818.

When did Norman Chevers die?

Norman Chevers died on 2 December 1886.

What was Norman Chevers's occupation?

Norman Chevers was a surgeon.

What nationality was Norman Chevers?

Norman Chevers was British.

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· Wikidata: Q26218969

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