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SIR ASTLEY PASTON COOPER (1768-1841)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 79 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:ASTLEY PASTON See also:COOPER (1768-1841)  , See also:English surgeon, was See also:born at the See also:village of See also:Brooke in See also:Norfolk on the 23rd of See also:August 1768 . His See also:father, Dr See also:Samuel See also:Cooper, was a clergyman of the See also:Church of See also:England; his See also:mother was the author of several novels . At the See also:age of sixteen he was sent to See also:London and placed under See also:Henry Cline (1750–1827), surgeon to St See also:Thomas's See also:hospital . From the first he devoted himself to the study of See also:anatomy, and had the See also:privilege of attending the lectures of See also:John See also:Hunter . In 1789 he was appointed demonstrator of anatomy at St Thomas's hospital, where in 1791 he became See also:joint lecturer with Cline in anatomy and See also:surgery, and in 'Soo he was appointed surgeon to See also:Guy's hospital, on the See also:death of his See also:uncle, See also:William Cooper . In 1802 he received the See also:Copley See also:medal for two papers read before the Royal Society of London on the destruction of the membrana tympani; and in 1805 he was elected a See also:fellow of that society . In the same See also:year he took an active See also:part in the formation of the Medico-Chirurgical Society, and published in the first See also:volume of its Transactions an See also:account of an See also:attempt to tie the See also:common See also:carotid artery for aneurism . In 1804 he brought out the first, and in 1807 the second, part of his See also:great See also:work on See also:hernia, which added' so largely to his reputation that in 1813 his See also:annual professional income See also:rose to 21,000 See also:sterling . In the same year he was appointed See also:professor of See also:comparative anatomy to the Royal See also:College of Surgeons and was very popular as a lecturer . In 1817 he performed his famous operation of tying the abdominal aorta for aneurism; and in 182o he removed a wen from the See also:head of See also:George IV., and about six months afterwards received a baronetcy, which, as he had no son, was to descend to his See also:nephew and adopted son, See also:Astley Cooper . He served as See also:president of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1827 and again in 1836, and he was elected a See also:vice-president of the Royal Society in 1830 . He died on the 12th of See also:February 1841 in London, and was interred, by his own See also:desire, beneath the See also:chapel of Guy's hospital .

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Baily was erected in St See also:Paul's . His See also:chief See also:works are Anatomy and Surgical Treatment of Hernia (1804—1807); Dislocations and Fractures (1822) ; Lectures on Surgery (1824—1827); Illustrations of Diseases of the See also:Breast (1829) ; Anatomy of the Thymus Gland (1832); Anatomy of the Breast (184o) . See See also:Life of See also:Sir A . Cooper, by B . B . Cooper (1843) .

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