7+ Astley Cooper Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Astley Cooper quotes and sayings.

It is the surgeon’s duty to tranquillize the temper, to beget cheerfulness, and to impart confidence of recovery. — Astley Cooper

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

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. — Astley Cooper

My lectures were highly esteemed, but my operations less thought of, so that I am of opinion that my operations rather kept down my practice, than increased it. — Astley Cooper

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. — Astley Cooper

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

The means by which I preserve my own health are, temperance, early rising, and spunging the body every morning with cold water, a practice I have pursued for thirty years ; and though I go from this heated theatre into the squares of the Hospital, in the severest winter nights, with merely silk stockings on my legs, yet I scarcely ever have a cold. — Astley Cooper