for yourself; never mind what other people may say, no opinion or theories can interfere with information derived from dissection.” The expense of the illustrations to this work was so great that Mr. Cooper was loser of a thousand pounds by it when every copy had been sold. In 1806 Mr. Cooper left St. Mary Axe to occupy the house in New Broad Street which for nine years was crowded by his patients, during the most remunerative years of his life. In those years he rose at six, dissected privately till eight, and from half-past eight saw large numbers of gratuitous patients. At breakfast he ate only two well-buttered hot rolls, drank his tea, cool, at a draught, read his paper a few minutes, and then was off to his consulting-room, turning round with a sweet benign smile as he left the room. Patients crowded his rooms and besieged “Charles,” using manifold devices to get the earliest interview possible. At one o’clock he would scarcely see another patient, even if the house was full; but if detained half an hour later, would fly into a rage, abuse Charles, and jump into his carriage, leaving Charles to appease the disappointed patients. Sometimes the people in the hall and ante-room were so importunate that Mr. Cooper was driven to escape through his stables and into a passage by Bishopsgate Church. At Guy’s he was awaited by a crowd of pupils on the steps, and at once went into the wards, addressing the patients with such tenderness of voice and expression that he at once gained their confidence. His few pertinent questions and quick diagnosis were of themselves remarkable, no less than the judicious calm manner in which he enforced the necessity for operations when required. At two the pupils would suddenly leave the ward, run across the street to the old St. Thomas’s Hospital, and seat themselves in the anatomical theatre. After the lecture, which was often so crowded that men stood in the gangways and passages near to gain such portions of his lecture as they might fortunately pick up, he went round the dissecting-room, and afterwards left the hospital to visit patients, or to operate privately, returning home at half-past six or seven. Every spare minute in his carriage was occupied with dictating to his assistants notes or remarks on cases or other subjects on which he was engaged. At dinner he ate rapidly and not very elegantly, talking and joking; after dinner he slept for ten minutes at will, and then started to his surgical lecture, if it were a lecture night. In the evening he was usually again on a round of visits till midnight.