Cooper, Sir Astley Paston, 1st Baronet

Cooper, Sir Astley Paston, 1st Baronet

▪ English surgeon

born Aug. 23, 1768, Brooke, Norfolk, Eng.
died Feb. 12, 1841, London
 English surgeon who, in 1816, was the first to tie the abdominal aorta as a means of treating an aneurysm. Among the records of the remarkable variety of successful operations he performed, all of them accomplished before the days of antiseptic surgery, are The Anatomy and Surgical Treatment of Hernia (Part 1, 1804; Part 2, 1807) and the account of an attempt to tie the carotid artery, published in the first volume of Transactions of the Medical and Chirurgical Society, of which he was a founder.

      Cooper studied with Henry Cline and John Hunter, in London, and later in Paris and Edinburgh. In 1800 he went to Guy's Hospital as surgeon, and in 1813 he became professor of comparative anatomy to the Royal College of Surgeons. He had perhaps the largest and most lucrative private practice of any British surgeon of his time. Appointed surgeon to King George IV, he received a baronetcy in 1821.

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