Doctors and patients; or, Anecdotes of the medical world and curiosities of medicine (1873) (14784761822)

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Title: Doctors and patients; or, Anecdotes of the medical world and curiosities of medicine
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Timbs, John,1801-1875
Subjects: Medicine Medicine
Publisher: London, R. Bentley and son
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library



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nthe Oh, oh ! cried he, I see you are a wag,—all fudge about the hearth-rug. Some say I chew the cud like a cow ha ! ha ! ha ! and he gave me one of the most comic looks I everbeheld. I said no more about regimen or diet, but enteredinto conversation on other subjects, and found him one of themost agreeable and amusing men I ever met with. Sir Astley Cooper. This eminent surgeon was born at Brooke,, in Norfolk, in1768. His mother sprang from the ancient family of thePastons, who lived in Norfolk in the reigns of Henry VI.,Edward IV., Richard III., and Henry VII. They left, for thegratification of posterity, the celebrated correspondence knownas the Paston Letters, which present us with one of theearliest pictures of domestic life in England. In boyhood, SirAstley is stated to have shown a bold and enterprising spirit,conjoined with a social disposition and remarkable decision ofcharacter for so early an age. So truly— The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day.—Milton.
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*-7 £L^£ / /^? / .^/^c Sir Astley Cooper. 87 He was chiefly educated by his father, a sound scholar. Anaccidental circumstance is said to have influenced his futurecareer. When a boy, he saw a lad fall from a cart, and tear histhigh in such a manner as to wound the femoral artery.Young Cooper immediately took his handkerchief and appliedit round the thigh so tightly as to control the bleeding untilfurther assistance could be procured. At the age of fifteen hewas placed with a surgeon and apothecary at Great Yarmouth ;he next came to London, and was apprenticed to his uncle,one of the surgeons of Guys Hospital, but in a few monthswas transferred by his own desire to Mr. Cline, the eminentsurgeon of St Thomass Hospital. Here his zeal and applica-tion were incessant; and he laid the foundation of his fameand fortune by giving a course of lectures on the principlesand practice of surgery, which had previously only formedpart of the anatomical course. His class of students rose tofour hu