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Maria Susanna Cooper was a daughter of James Bransby of Shottiston, Norfolk, and married Samuel Cooper (1739-1800), who was the son of Samuel Cooper, surgeon in Norwich, and brother to William Cooper, surgeon in Guy's Hospital,
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His birthday was the 23rd of August, 1768, and he was baptized, as appears by the parish register, on the 9th day of the following month. His godfather was Sir Edward Astley, at that time member for the county
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Today, Cooper is remembered in the area with a number of local street names (Astley Cooper Place in the village of his birth, Brooke, Norfolk), (Astley Road and Paston Road in Hemel Hempstead), and
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the father and mother of Sir Astley Cooper, - the Rev. Samuel Cooper, eighteen years minister of Yarmouth, and Maria Susanna Bransby, his wife, both authors of many publications now forgotten.
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was constructed to the south of the town instead of through it, a more natural course. This led to the citizens of Hemel Hempstead having no railway station in their town.
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Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft: Chapters on the Archaeology, Natural History, Etc., of the District; a History of the East Coast Herring Fishery
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on 23 August 1768 and baptised at St. Peter's Church, Brooke, on 9 September, Astley Cooper was the son of the Rev Dr Samuel Cooper, a
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Cooper was an anatomist and identified several previously undescribed anatomical structures, many of which were named after him:
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The Life of Sir Astley Cooper, Bart: Interspersed with Sketches from His Note-books of Distinguished Contemporary Characters
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In 1817 Cooper performed his famous operation of tying the abdominal aorta for aneurysm; and in 1820 he removed an infected
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and was its President in 1819. In 1804 he brought out the first, and in 1807 the second, part of his great work on
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née Bransby wrote several epistolary novels. At the age of sixteen he was sent to London and placed under
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
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Astley Cooper's baptismal entry from the register of St. Peter's Church, Brooke.
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Digging Up the Dead: Uncovering the Life and Times of an Extraordinary Surgeon
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He also described a number of new diseases, which likewise became eponymous:
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Hughes, Mansel & Webster's Benign Disorders and Diseases of the Breast
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for treating an aneurysm in a patient. In 1808 he tried the same with the
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by ligation of the vessel. In 1805 he published in the first volume of
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in 1827 and again in 1836, and he was elected a vice-president of the
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the same year. In 1805 he took an active part in the formation of the
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Mansel, Robert E.; Sweetland, Helen M.; Hughes, L. E., eds. (2009).
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of the carotid arteries in dogs and to propose treatment of
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Discoveries in Periodicals, 1720-1820: Facts and Fictions
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in 1830. In 1821, he was elected a foreign member of the
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About six months afterwards he received a 928:"Astley Cooper: Surgeon to rich and famous" 285:on the death of his uncle, William Cooper. 1153: 1139: 1081: 629: 281:, and in 1800 he was appointed surgeon to 19:For other people named Astley Cooper, see 1056:History of Surgeons from surgeons.org.uk. 951:, hemeltoday.co.uk. Retrieved 8 July 2013 306:Medical and Chirurgical Society of London 16:British surgeon and anatomist (1768–1841) 960: 873:King's College London – The Guy's Chapel 852: 806: 789: 787: 785: 783: 781: 534:Anatomy and Surgical Treatment of Hernia 431: 230: 718: 602: 552:Illustrations of Diseases of the Breast 1550: 996: 686: 380:London to Birmingham main railway line 1134: 987: 975: 778: 598: 596: 176:Sir Astley Paston Cooper, 1st Baronet 1578:19th-century English medical doctors 1089:Sir Astley Paston Cooper and Hoo Loo 756: 320:and was very popular as a lecturer. 296:of London on the destruction of the 1068:. Digital reproduction of the book. 906:"Gadebridge House, Hemel Hempstead" 891:"Memorials of St Paul's Cathedral" 482:suspensory ligaments of the breasts 219:, and the pathology and surgery of 13: 1066:On the anatomy of the breast, 1840 1020:"History of benign breast disease" 1011: 981:The life and work of Astley Cooper 593: 14: 1634: 1041: 345:Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 1098:Baronetage of the United Kingdom 794: 658:(1–4). London: S. Highley: 176. 616:Dictionary of National Biography 529:His chief published works were: 58: 942: 920: 898: 885: 603:Bettany, George Thomas (1887). 415:Medico-Chirurgical Transactions 292:for two papers read before the 1588:Recipients of the Copley Medal 1455:Jacques Charles François Sturm 1048:Astley Paston Cooper biography 866: 846: 824: 750: 719:Pitcher, Edward W. R. 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Dacorum Heritage Trust 519:(retroperitoneal hernia) 392: 387:The Astley Cooper School 265:(1750–1827), surgeon to 1419:Antoine César Becquerel 1247:Benjamin Collins Brodie 882:(Accessed 16 July 2013) 817:Encyclopædia Britannica 634:; Babington, James P.; 630:Batty Shaw, A. (1968). 458:Cooper's pubic ligament 429:for an iliac aneurysm. 245:Born at Brooke Hall in 1183:William Hyde Wollaston 652:Guy's Hospital Reports 440: 374:in the market town of 302:Fellow of that society 242: 235:Astley Paston Cooper, 1423:John Frederic Daniell 1295:Hans Christian Ørsted 1255:William Thomas Brande 1003:Life of Sir A. 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Index

Astley Cooper (disambiguation)
Sir
Bt
GCH
FRS

Thomas Lawrence
Brooke, Norfolk
otology
vascular surgery
anatomy
Copley Medal
anatomy
GCH
FRS
surgeon
anatomist
otology
vascular surgery
anatomy
pathology
mammary glands
testicles
hernia

Brooke, Norfolk
clergyman
Church of England
Maria Susanna Cooper
Henry Cline

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