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Robert Chessher (1750–1831) was the first British Orthopedist. He invented the double-inclined plane to help in the treatment of lower-body bone fractures. ==Life== Chessher was born in Hinckley in Leicestershire, in 1750. His father died during his infancy, and his mother married a surgeon named Whalley, residing also at Hinckley ; and to him, after education at Bosworth school, young Chessher was apprenticed. He early showed aptitude for improvising supports for fractured limbs, especially for the purpose of obviating contraction of muscles ana skin. At the age of eighteen he became a pupil of Dr. Denman, the eminent London accoucheur, attending William Hunter's and Fordyce's lectures. He afterwards became house surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital, but before long returned to Hinckley, on his stepfather's death, and remained there, unmarried, during the remainder of his life, resisting solicitations to return to London. He died on 31 January 1831. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Chessher」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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