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

- Astley Cooper

Having made a sufficient opening to admit my finger into the abdomen, I passed it between the intestines to the spine, and felt the aorta greatly enl…

- Astley Cooper

If you are too fond of new remedies, first you will not cure your patients; secondly, you will have no patients to cure.

- Astley Cooper

In collecting evidence upon any medical subject, there are but three sources from which we can hope to obtain it; viz. from observation on medical th…

- Astley Cooper

Nothing is known in our profession by guess; and I do not believe, that from the first dawn of medical science to the present moment, a single correc…

- 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 und…

- Astley Cooper

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 pur…

- Astley Cooper

My lectures were highly esteemed, but my operations less thought of, so that I am of opinion that my operations rather kept down my practice, than in…

- Astley Cooper

I have made many mistakes myself; in learning the anatomy of the eye I dare say, I have spoiled a hatfull; the best surgeon, like the best general, i…

- Astley Cooper