Astley Cooper Quotes

3 Sourced Quotes

The means by which I preserve my own health are, temperance, early rising, and spunging the body every morning with cold water, a practice I have pursued for thirty years ; and though I go from this heated theatre into the squares of the Hospital, in the severest winter nights, with merely silk stockings on my legs, yet I scarcely ever have a cold...

Astley Cooper

In the performance of our duty one feeling should direct us; the case we should consider as our own, and we should ask ourselves, whether, placed under similar circumstances, we should choose to submit to the pain and danger we are about to inflict.

Astley Cooper

It is the surgeon's duty to tranquillize the temper, to beget cheerfulness, and to impart confidence of recovery.

Astley Cooper

Astley Cooper

Astley Cooper

Creative Commons

Born: August 23, 1768

Died: February 12, 1841 (aged 72)

Bio: Sir Astley Paston Cooper, 1st Baronet was an English surgeon and anatomist, who made historical contributions to otology, vascular surgery, the anatomy and pathology of the mammary glands and testicles, and the pathology and surgery of hernia.

Astley Cooper on Wikipedia

Suggest an edit or a new quote