See also:JOHN See also:- COOPER
- COOPER (or COUPER), THOMAS (c. 1517-1594)
- COOPER, ABRAHAM (1787—1868)
- COOPER, ALEXANDER (d. i66o)
- COOPER, CHARLES HENRY (18o8-1866)
- COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE (1789-1851)
- COOPER, PETER (1791-1883)
- COOPER, SAMUEL (1609-1672)
- COOPER, SIR ASTLEY PASTON (1768-1841)
- COOPER, THOMAS (1759–1840)
- COOPER, THOMAS (1805–1892)
- COOPER, THOMAS SIDNEY (1803–1902)
COOPER See also:FORSTER (1823-1886)
, See also:British surgeon, was See also:born in 1823 in See also:Lambeth, See also:London, where his See also:father and See also:grand-father before him had been See also:local medical practitioners
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He entered See also:Guy's See also:hospital in 1841, was appointed demonstrator of See also:anatomy in 1850, assistant-surgeon, 1855, and surgeon, 187o
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He became a member of the See also:College of Surgeons in 1844, See also:fellow in 1849 and See also:president in 1884
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He was a prompt and sometimes bold operator
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In 1858 he performed practically the first gastrostomy in See also:England for a See also:case of See also:cancer of the See also:oesophagus
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Among his best-known papers were discussions of See also:acupressure, syphilis, See also:hydrophobia, intestinal obstruction, modified obturator See also:hernia, torsion, and colloid cancer of the large See also:intestine; and he published a See also:book on Surgical Diseases of See also:Children in 186o,, founded on his experience as surgeon to the hospital for children and See also:women in See also:Waterloo Road
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He died suddenly in London on the znd of See also:March 1886
.
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