Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1357

SAMUEL COOPER (1780-1848) The first lines of the practice of surgery. Printed for F. Nichols, by Thomas and George Palmer 1808 xx, 474 pp., 9 plates. 21.8 cm.

Cooper studied medicine at London's St. Bartholomew's Hospital and became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1803, serving as its president in 1845. In 1813 he joined the army and was a field surgeon at the battle of Waterloo. The present work was one of his most popular, going through seven editions in London and four in the United States, of which this is the first. Written for both student and practitioner, the book is arranged in two parts, treating general subjects such as inflammation, fever, erysipelas, hemorrhage, wounds, fractures, and dislocations in the first part and specific subjects such as head injuries, eye diseases, hernia, and amputation in the second.

Cited references: Austin 530; Waller 2121; Wellcome II, p. 388 (London ed., 1807)