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Cooper was born in September 1780. His father, who had made a fortune in the West Indies, died when his three sons were still young.
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1819 Excerpt: ... is strong enough to resist the impetus of the blood. He represents this period to be on the third or fourth day after the operation, when he recommends us to remove the ligature altogether, and not wait for its spontaneous detachment, as its longer continuance, he conceives, is of nb further use, and may sometimes cause ulceration at the principal point of adhesion between the sides of the artery, f Although I fully agree, that a sufficiently firm closure of the vessel must generally have taken place long before the time when a ligature is spontaneously detached, yet I apprehend that if the momentary application of the cord will not suffice, we shall never derive any solid advantage from not awaiting its natural separation. If the ligature could be taken away directly after its first application, then we should be able to close the wound, and attempt to heal it by the first intention, and this with increased chances of success, inasmuch as the case would not be complicated with the presence of any extraneous substance. But, unless the thing can be done in the first instance, as a late critic has properly observed, we must, in order to be enabled to cut off the ligature, lose all the advantage of the chance of union by the first X intention. In attempting to remove the ligature, there must also be See Obs. on the Ligature of Arteries, and the Causes of Secondary Hemorrhage, with a Suggestion of a new Method of employing theLigature in Cases of Aneurism, Med. Chk. Trans, vol. iv. p. 435, &c.; also vol. vi. p. 632--643, &c. f See MemoriasullaLegaturadelle PrincipaliArterie,&e. p. 5,&c.&c. Pavia, 1817. X See Quarterly Journal of Foreign Medicine and Surgery, ai!d of the Sciences connected with them, p. 29. Lond. 1818. some danger of tearing...
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Cooper was born in September 1780. His father, who had made a fortune in the West Indies, died when his three sons were still young.
The second, Samuel, was educated by Doctor Charles Burney at Greenwich, and in 1800 entered Saint Bartholomew"s Hospital.
He published a Surgical Dictionary which went through many editions. The eldest, George, became a judge of the supreme court in Madras, and was knighted. In 1806 he gained the Jacksonian prize at the College of Surgeons for the best essay on Diseases of the Joints.
His book (1840) "First Lincolnshire of Theory and Practice of Surgery" was the first formal acknowledgement of advanced melanoma as untreatable.
He stated that the only chance for a cure depends upon the early removal of the disease (ie, early excision of the malignant mole) More than one and a half centuries later, this situation remains largely unchanged. (London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman)
After his wife"s death, Cooper in 1813 entered the army as surgeon, and served at the battle of Waterloo.
Retiring on the conclusion of peace, he devoted his attention to editing the successive editions of his two principal works, and also gained a considerable surgical practice. From 1831 to 1848 he was surgeon to University College Hospital and professor of surgery in the college.
In 1845 he was elected president of the College of Surgeons, and in 1846 Fellow of the Royal Society.
Cooper died of gout on 2 December 1848. In 1810 Cooper married a Mission Cranstoun, but she died in the following year, leaving a daughter, afterwards married to Thomas Morton, surgeon to University College Hospital.
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In 1803 he became a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, and settled in Golden Square. In 1827 he became a member of the council of the College of Surgeons, and delivered the Hunterian oration in 1834.