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Samuel Cooper
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Samuel Cooper 1840, Andrew Morton
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| Born | September 1780 |
| Died | 2 December 1848 |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Surgeon |
| Known for | Surgical Dictionary |
Samuel Cooper (born September 1780 – died December 2, 1848) was a British surgeon and medical writer. He became very well-known for his book, a Surgical Dictionary, which was printed many times.
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Life and Career
Samuel Cooper was born in September 1780. He studied at St. Bartholomew's Hospital starting in 1800. In 1803, he became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons.
Early Achievements
In 1806, Samuel Cooper won the Jacksonian prize. This award from the College of Surgeons was for his excellent essay on Diseases of the Joints. After this, he started writing about surgery. His books became very popular and were printed many times.
One of his important books was "First Lines of Theory and Practice of Surgery" (1840). In this book, he was one of the first to say that advanced melanoma, a serious skin cancer, was hard to treat. He believed the best chance for a cure was to remove the disease very early. This idea is still important in medicine today.
Military Service and Later Career
After his wife passed away, Cooper joined the army in 1813 as a surgeon. He served during the Battle of Waterloo. When the war ended, he left the army. He then focused on updating his main books. He also became a very busy surgeon in his own practice.
In 1827, he joined the council of the College of Surgeons. He gave a special speech called the Hunterian oration in 1834. From 1831 to 1848, he worked as a surgeon at University College Hospital. He was also a professor of surgery at the college. In 1845, he became the president of the College of Surgeons. The next year, in 1846, he became a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Samuel Cooper died on December 2, 1848, from a condition called gout.
Major Works
Samuel Cooper wrote many important medical books. Here are some of them:
- Cataract, published in 1805.
- First lines of Surgery, published in 1807.
- Surgical Dictionary, published in 1809. This book was very important. It was translated into French, German, and Italian. It was also printed many times in America.
- He also helped edit the third and fourth editions of Dr Mason Good's Study of Medicine in 1822.
He also wrote articles about surgery for Rees's Cyclopædia.
Family Life
In 1810, Samuel Cooper married a woman named Miss Cranstoun. Sadly, she passed away the next year. They had one daughter. She later married Thomas Morton, who was also a surgeon at University College Hospital.
