1. Sir Vincent Zachary Cope MD MS FRCS was an English physician, surgeon, author, historian and poet perhaps best known for authoring the book Cope's Early Diagnosis of the Acute Abdomen from 1921 until 1971.
14 Facts About Zachary Cope
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Zachary Cope was the youngest of ten children of a minister, Thomas John Zachary Cope and his wife Celia Anne Crowle.
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Zachary Cope was head boy at Westminster City School where he was awarded a gold medal in 1899 and then a scholarship to go to St Mary's Hospital Medical School.
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Zachary Cope passed surgery and forensic medicine with distinction in 1905 and became house physician to David Lees, author of The Abdominal Inflammations.
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In 1906, Zachary Cope began work at Bolingbroke Hospital before joining the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1914.
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Zachary Cope was considered an "eminent authority" on acute abdominal disorders.
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Zachary Cope is quoted to have said that "the good surgeon must feel for his patients, but never let this sympathy disturb his judgement or treatment".
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Zachary Cope is recorded to have been a small man who stood on a stool, named 'Zachary Cope's stool' when operating.
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Zachary Cope received a knighthood for the work he completed on medicine and surgery in the official medical history of the Second World War.
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Between the ages of 75 years and 85 years, Zachary Cope wrote seven biographies including William Cheselden, Florence Nightingale, Almroth Wright and Sir John Tomes.
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Zachary Cope outlived two wives, the first, Dora Newth, dying very young.
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Zachary Cope married Alice Mary Watts in 1923 and had a daughter.
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Zachary Cope lived near Hampstead Heath until the death of Alice in 1944 after which he moved to Chiltern Court, Baker Street.
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Zachary Cope is remembered to spend much time in the library of the RSM after retirement.