The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1881-02-16

the Monastery and the Church and Hilda
employed him in the very useful work of
translating into popular verse the entire sacred
history.
The Healing Art has its heroes, and the
world would do well sometimes to honor these
above the human butchers on the field Of
carnage. 1t is striking instance of the
strange contradictions in human nature-the
struggle between good and i'll ever waging in
the heart and showing itself in life-that the
remedy is made to follow SO quickly upon the
hurt-the ambulance runs in the wheel tracks
of the caisson the surgeons bandage sue
ceeds, with the least possible delay, the SEN
try's bullet from the same authority issue
orders for destruction and repair of life even
the same hand that has intentionally dealt
the sabre stroke, will, with utmost tender
ness, the next hour, mollify and bind up the
cash that it had made SO ruthlessly. Can we
doubt which is the nobler art, the truer hero ?
Let us, then, set down Sir Ashley Cooper
Tor one OF rhsee 1eeess Aest Of harees, who
heal. not hurt alleviate, not aagnont hunan
suhering iengthen' not shorten human life.
inc Almanac tens us ne died February IL,
lo4l. lhe oiiege OF surgeons Will let us
know that his name still lives, and shall for
ever. what he did, to improve practical
surgery, is thus stated by SIR John Forbes !:
lie gave operations a scientific character,
and Invested them IN great degree of their
terrors' by performing them unostentatiously,
simply, confidently and cheerfully, and there
by inspiring tue patient with hope of reliei,
where previously resignation under misfor-
tune had TOO often been all that could be ex-
pected from the sufferer. How glad we may
be that bis surgery class sometimes numbered
400 students What tens Of thousands of
broken arms and sprained ANGLES aud cancer
ed breasts and gun-shot wounds and fln-
coated eyes and bone felons, and the countless
CATION, because OF that one clear eye, and firm
hand and steady, delicate touch, and strong,
tender heart We rejoice that this hero Of
healing had his great field days, now and
then. One was in 1921, when George w had
a tumour removed from his crown,oppressed
scalp, Like many another general, ON the
eve of a critical action, the surgeon for few
momenrs looked pale aud nervous. "Cour-
age, Cooper" said Lord Liverpool, taking
him by the hand "this operation, remem-
Der. makes or ruins you" His wonted dex-
terity aud camness quickly returned anc
the day made lima baronet.
At another time, grateful patient, whom
he had successfully treated for a fearful mala
dy, Mrsp us night-cap at Sir Ashley, with :
Thousand guineas in it
And, so far.spread and bright was his fame
that when once a young English surgeon was
captured in the mountains Of Spain by a
Carlist band, Cooper's signature on his dlplo
ma was passport to the friendship and con
fidence of the Spanish leader, who at once ap
pointed him surgeon in his army.
February IA, the noisy boys about tow
have a vehement way of reminding us, be
longs to Valentine their pounding ans
shouting at the outer door, however, have ne
evident relation to the tender sentimentalit,
of the letter-writing swain, and are still more
remote from the supposed character of til,