“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.” YearsMeanBodyScienceNightWaterMy OwnPracticeMorningHealthColdWinterLegsTheatrePreservesThirtyRisingHospitalsSquaresEvery MorningPhysiciansBiographiesPursuedThirty YearsSilkTemperanceStockingsCold WaterWinter Night Book:The Lectures of Sir Astley Cooper: On the Principles and Practice of Surgery Source: The Lectures of Sir Astley Cooper: On the Principles and Practice of Surgery
“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.” ScienceOpinionPracticeOperationsBiographiesLectures Author:Astley Cooper
