. Epitome of the history of medicine : based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. rgeons, and it hasalways been rare to find one who was not also a goodgeneral practitioner; the immense advantages which thisadded knowledge confers must be apparent. The mostcelebrated representative of British surgery of this centurywas the son of a clergyman,—Sir Astley Cooper, born inNorfolk in 1748, but subsequently a resident of youth he resolutely compressed the bleeding limbof a playmate who was the victim of an accident, so thattime was gained for the arrival of
. Epitome of the history of medicine : based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. rgeons, and it hasalways been rare to find one who was not also a goodgeneral practitioner; the immense advantages which thisadded knowledge confers must be apparent. The mostcelebrated representative of British surgery of this centurywas the son of a clergyman,—Sir Astley Cooper, born inNorfolk in 1748, but subsequently a resident of youth he resolutely compressed the bleeding limbof a playmate who was the victim of an accident, so thattime was gained for the arrival of a surgeon, who then tied 272 THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE. the vessel; this decided his future calling, and he pursuedhis studies in London, Edinburgh, and on the 1791 he settled down to private practice, which soonyielded him an income in excess of <£20,000 ($100,000),for his day the equivalent of thrice that amount at the age of seventy-three he succumbed to a long-standing asthma. He was a somewhat voluminous writer,and his works on fractures, dislocations, and diseases of the. Fig. 40.—Sir Astley Cooper, Bart. (From a steel engraving of an original drawing by J. W. Rubidge.) breast are by no means obsolete. His motto was: Firstobserve, and then think. Exceptionally endowed with allthe graces of person, he became one of the most popularand influential men of his day; withal, he was alwayszealous for his profession, never unoccupied, and charitableto a hii>h decree. Of his boldness we have evidence inthe fact that in 1817 he tied the abdominal aorta, beingthe first to undertake this surgical feat. ENGLISH SURGEONS OF THE XIX CENTURY. 273 A colleague of Coopers at St. Thomass Hospital wasTravers, already spoken of in connection with , a nephew of Cooper, was a well-known surgeon,particularly in diseases of the eye. Others of the same namewere: Samuel Cooper (1781-1848), who wrote a volu-minous treatise on practical surgery; Brans
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