Item FP/2/7/32 - Letters from Sir Astley Paston Cooper (1768-1841), surgeon

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FP/2/7/32

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Letters from Sir Astley Paston Cooper (1768-1841), surgeon

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  • c.1800-1841 (Creation)

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Letter dated 14 May 1841 to James Hoggins of the Literary Society regarding Pettigrew's 'Medical Portrait Gallery'. Date taken from postmark. Letter to an unnamed recipient regarding a case of carcinoma lingua [tongue cancer]. The letter is mounted on card, along with a print of an engraving of Cooper by Sir L Lawrence.

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Pettigrew, Thomas Joseph (1838-1840) 'Medical portrait gallery: biographical memoirs of the most celebrated physicians and surgeons etc., etc., who have contributed to the advancement of medical science'

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