Robert Hooper (physician)

Robert Hooper (1773–1835) was an English physician, known as a medical writer.

Life

The son of John Hooper of Marylebone, he was born in London. After a course of medical study in London he was appointed apothecary to the Marylebone workhouse infirmary. He entered Pembroke College, Oxford, on 24 October 1796, graduated B.A. in 1803, M.A. and M.B. in 1804. He was prevented from proceeding to D.M. at the University of Oxford, but he was created M.D. of the University of St Andrews on 16 December 1805, and admitted licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians on 23 December 1805.[1]

Settling in Savile Row, Hooper lectured there on the practice of medicine. He made a study of pathology, and formed a collection of illustrative specimens. He retired from practice in 1829, having made a fortune, and lived at Stanmore.[1]

Hooper died in Bentinck Street, Manchester Square, on 6 May 1835, in his sixty-third year.[1]

Works

While still a practicing physician, he was an industrious writer. His books sold well, and revised editions remained in print to the end of the century. Hooper wrote:

The Physician's Vade Mecum, title page from the 1809 American edition.

References

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bettany, George Thomas (1891). "Hooper, Robert". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography 27. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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