Zachary Cope

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Sir
Vincent Zachary Cope
MD MS
FRCS
  • MD
  • MS Lond.
    • Spouse(s)Agnes Dora Newth (1909–1922, her death)
    Alice May Watts (1923–1944, her death)
    ChildrenOne daughter
    Parent(s)Thomas John Gilbert Cope
    Celia Ann Cope née Truscott

    Sir Vincent Zachary Cope MD MS

    public dispensaries.[5][6][7]

    Early life

    Cope was the youngest of ten children of a

    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. He passed surgery and forensic medicine with distinction in 1905 and became house physician to David Lees, author of The Abdominal Inflammations. Lees influenced Cope in his lifelong interest, the acute abdomen.[1][2]

    Surgical career

    In 1906, Cope began work at Bolingbroke Hospital before joining the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1914. In 1916 he went to Baghdad, Mesopotamia. It was here that he wrote his first book Surgical aspects of dysentery published in 1921. Cope was considered an "eminent authority" on acute abdominal disorders. Influenced by Augustus D Waller and Almroth Wright, he published many books including Cope's Early Diagnosis of the Acute Abdomen also in 1921.[1]

    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".[1]

    Cope is recorded to have been a small man who stood on a stool, named 'Cope's stool' when operating.[2]

    Ministry of Health

    Involved in surveying hospital facilities, medical staffing levels and

    Second World War.[1]

    Sir Henry Hallett Dale
    (left) and Sir Zachary Cope, 1962.

    Notable works

    1921 - Early Diagnosis of the Acute Abdomen

    1939 - Pioneers in Acute Abdominal Surgery - Oxford

    1947 - The Diagnosis of the Acute Abdomen in Rhyme (under the pseudonym Zeta)

    1954 - The History of St Mary's Hospital Medical School, Paddington

    1955 - A Hundred Years of Nursing at St. Mary's Hospital , Paddington [8]

    1957 - Sidelights on the History of Medicine

    1959 - The Royal College of Surgeons of England, a history

    1961 - Some Famous General practitioners and other Medical Historical Essays.[1]

    1965 - A History of the Acute Abdomen

    Between the ages of 75 years and 85 years, Cope wrote seven biographies including William Cheselden, Florence Nightingale, Almroth Wright and Sir John Tomes.[1]

    Personal life

    The cast of a play produced at St. Mary's Hospital in 1905

    Described as "modest and friendly", Cope was also "devoted to his family and loved by his friends". He outlived two wives, the first, Dora Newth, dying very young. He married Alice Mary Watts in 1923 and had a daughter.[1][2]

    Cope lived near Hampstead Heath until the death of Alice in 1944 after which he moved to

    Chiltern Court, Baker Street. He is remembered to spend much time in the library of the RSM after retirement.[2] Between 1950 and 1952, he was president of the Osler Club of London.[9]

    Legacy

    St Mary's Hospital, London has a ward named after Cope.[10]

    The Royal college of surgeons pays tribute to Cope with the Zachary Cope Memorial Lecture in abdominal surgical disease.[2]

    References

    1. ^
      PMID 1095868
      .
    2. ^
      PMID 1100161
      .
    3. ^ Balfour, Tom (2006). "Review: Cope's Early Diagnosis of the Acute Abdomen".
      PMC 1325083
      .
    4. ^ Cope, Zachary; Silen, William (January 2010). Cope's Early Diagnosis of the Acute Abdomen (22nd ed.). New York:
      OCLC 317664268
      .
    5. PMID 4890038
      .
    6. ISSN 0007-1323
      .
    7. ISSN 0035-9157
      .
    8. ^ Cope, Zachary (1955). A Hundred Years of Nursing. London: Heinemann Medical Books Ltd.
    9. ^ "Presidents – The Osler Club of London". Archived from the original on 20 December 2021. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
    10. ^ "St Mary's Hospital wards- Zachary Cope Ward". www.imperial.nhs.uk. Retrieved 13 November 2017.

    Further reading

    External links
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