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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 See also: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 . 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 . He became a member of the See also:College of Surgeons in 1844, See also:fellow in 1849 and See also:president in 1884 . He was a prompt and sometimes bold operator . 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 . 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 . He died suddenly in London on the znd of See also:March 1886 .

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