Cheshire, Mr. (Hist.)
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Cheshire, Mr. (Hist.)
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A medical man who used "irons, trying to make people straight". Robert Chessher (1750-1831) a surgeon of Hinckly, Leicestershire, who had devised a special apparatus for weak spines. (See Garrison, History of Medicine, p. 518.)
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<em>Middlemarch</em>
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