. Surgical memoirs, and other essays. us, and he saw more patients than would bepossible for any one man in our elaborate days. Afterhis morning dissections and breakfast he saw hisgratuitous patients first, and then from nine oclockuntil one came the stream of regular patients to hisconsulting room. Here he did every variety of practice— from advising boarding-school girls about their dietto operations of considerable magnitude. Quick andsudden cutting was common with him. He would opena felon, excise a lipoma, or amputate a finger withhardly so much as a by your leave. Promptly at one oclock
. Surgical memoirs, and other essays. us, and he saw more patients than would bepossible for any one man in our elaborate days. Afterhis morning dissections and breakfast he saw hisgratuitous patients first, and then from nine oclockuntil one came the stream of regular patients to hisconsulting room. Here he did every variety of practice— from advising boarding-school girls about their dietto operations of considerable magnitude. Quick andsudden cutting was common with him. He would opena felon, excise a lipoma, or amputate a finger withhardly so much as a by your leave. Promptly at one oclock, regardless of the fact thathis house was still crowded with patients, he wouldjump into his carriage and drive rapidly to the hospi-tal. There he always made the ward visit at once,accompanied by a throng of students. His mannertowards hospital patients was always most kindly andconsiderate, and he used to say that he owed half hissuccess in practice to his invariable rule of impartialcourtesy towards rich and poor. At two oclock. Sill AsTLEY Paston Cooper, Bakt. SIR ASTLEY COOPER 165 promptly he began his daily clinical lecture, which,combined with operating, lasted from one to two then left the hospital to make his round of privatecalls, and arrived at home for dinner about sevenoclock. After dinner came a half-hours nap, thenthe evening calls, and home to bed between twelve andtwo. He insisted strongly upon the value of a certainamount of general medical practice, as he felt that nosurgeon who narrowed his attention to the immediateand obvious lesion under inspection could considerproperly the broad bearings of surgical disease uponthe individual. He always stated in his lectures thatthe mere operation was a small detail in surgical thera-peutics; that general conditions of health required themost careful investigation — for which only a man inlarge general practice was competent; and that thecare of the sick after operation demanded the widestexperience. Astl
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