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JOHN COOPER FORSTER (1823-1886)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 675 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN
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COOPER
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FORSTER (1823-1886)  ,
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British surgeon, was
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born in 1823 in
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Lambeth,
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London, where his
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father and
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grand-father before him had been
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local medical practitioners . He entered
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Guy's
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hospital in 1841, was appointed demonstrator of
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anatomy in 1850, assistant-surgeon, 1855, and surgeon, 187o . He became a member of the
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College of Surgeons in 1844,
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fellow in 1849 and
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president in 1884 . He was a prompt and sometimes bold operator . In 1858 he performed practically the first gastrostomy in
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England for a
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case of
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cancer of the
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oesophagus . Among his best-known papers were discussions of
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acupressure, syphilis,
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hydrophobia, intestinal obstruction, modified obturator
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hernia, torsion, and colloid cancer of the large
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intestine; and he published a
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book on Surgical Diseases of
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Children in 186o,, founded on his experience as surgeon to the hospital for children and
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women in
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Waterloo Road . He died suddenly in London on the znd of
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March 1886 .

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