Astley Cooper Quotes

#1. In the collecting of evidence upon any medical subject, there are but three sources from which we can hope to obtain it: viz. from observation of the living subject; from examination of the dead; and from experiments upon living animals.

Astley Cooper

#2. 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.

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#3. 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, is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

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

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#5. My lectures were highly esteemed, but I am of opinion my operations rather kept down my practice, than increased it.

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#6. 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