Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, 1st Baronet

Sir William Arbuthnot Lane (1856 to 1943) was a British surgeon and physician who worked in orthopaedic, abdominal and ear, nose and throat surgery and designed instruments to keep operations aseptic. He introduced the no-touch technique and pioneered internal fixation of displaced fractures, cleft palate procedures and colon resection for the condition now called colonic inertia, which he identified in 1908. During the First World War he organised Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup, which pioneered reconstructive surgery. He was made a baronet in 1913. In the 1920s he founded the New Health Society and promoted whole foods and exercise; his theory that constipation poisons the body is now regarded as unfounded, and later opinion of him is mixed.