Obituary. Robert Thomas Cooper, M.D., M.A., ( T.C.D.). The Homeopathic World, Oct. 1, 1903.

Obituary. Robert Thomas Cooper, M.D., M.A., ( T.C.D.). The Homeopathic World, Oct. 1, 1903.

Author: John Henry Clarke

Year: 1903

"Death of an Eminent Homeopathic Doctor. The cause of Hahnemann has suffered a sever loss by the death of Dr. Robert Thomas Cooper, of Wimpole Street, who died after a brief illness on Monday last at the age of 59. Dr. Cooper was the author of many works and articles bearing on homeopathic therapeutics, and on his own special department, diseases of the ear. Dr. Cooper was a man of many interests, and his work in reference to forestry is very well known. He was the founder and first president of the Irish Forestry Society, which came into existence a year or two ago, and which will be greatly affected by his loss. Of late years Dr. Cooper had turned his attention very largely to the treatment of cases of cancer, in which his very original therapeutic genius had been productive of much success. A number of small works on this subject issued from his pen, and the second edition of his work on Cancer of the Breast had been sent to the press only a week or two before he died. His largest work was his treatise on Diseases of the Ear; but he was a very large contributor to journals and works on materia medica, his knowledge of plant-therapeutics being unique. His death comes as a great s