Robert Hooper (physician)

Life

Works

• Observations on the Structure and Economy of Plants; to which is added the Analogy between the Animal and Vegetable Kingdoms, Oxford, 1797.
• The Hygrology; or Chemico-Physiological Doctrine of the Fluids of the Human Body. From the Latin of J. J. Plenck, London, 1797. Translation from Joseph Jakob Plenck.
• A Compendious Medical Dictionary, containing an Explanation of the Terms in Anatomy, Physiology, Surgery, London, 1798; 6th edit., 1831; numerous American editions were issued. The edition of 1811 was issued as a new edition of John Quincy's Lexicon Medicum, a work which had gone through thirteen editions, largely copied by Hooper. Subsequent editions bore the title Lexicon Medicum, or Medical Dictionary, without reference to Quincy.
• The Anatomist's Vade Mecum, containing the Anatomy, Physiology, and Morbid Appearances of the Human Body, London, 1798; 4th edit., 1802; American editions, Boston, 1801, 1803.
• Anatomical Plates of the Bones and Muscles, reduced from Albinus, for the use of Students and Artists, London, 1802; 3rd edit., 1807.
• Observations on the Epidemical Diseases now prevailing in London, London, 1803.
• The London Dissector, London, 1804.
• Examinations in Anatomy, Physiology, and Pharmacy, London, 1807; 4th edit., 1820.
• The Physician's Vade Mecum, containing the Symptoms, Causes, Prognosis, and Treatment of Diseases, London, 1809; enlarged edition, 1833; many American editions.
• The Surgeons Vade Mecum, London , 1809
• Anatomical Plates of the Thoracic and Abdominal Viscera, 3rd edit., 1809.
• The Morbid Anatomy of the Human Brain, being Illustrations of the most frequent and important Organic Diseases to which that viscus is subject, London, 1826.
• The Morbid Anatomy of the Human Uterus and its Appendages, with Illustrations of the most frequent and important Organic Diseases to which those Viscera are subject, London, 1832.