[1] They left Germany and moved to London, where Cope studied under Sir Henry Dale at the National Institute of Medicine.
[3] At that time, Edward Churchill and others such as Fuller Albright were starting to perform surgery for the treatment of hyperparathyroidism.
Cope was also involved in the treatment of a patient, Captain Martell, who had previously had exploratory operations to search for parathyroid adenomas which had been unsuccessful.
In 1932 Churchill, assisted by Cope, performed the first removal of a parathyroid adenoma from the mediastinum, having converted the initial neck operation to an open thoracotomy.
This work included the nature of pulmonary damage caused by smoke inhalation, and the "soft" technique of surface burn management, using boric petroleum-impregnated gauze dressings to allow healing instead of tanning with tannic acid.
[7] Work carried out by Cope and Francis Moore led to methods of estimating fluid replacement needs in burns patients.
He promoted these ideas widely, publishing Man, Mind & Medicine - The Doctor's Education in 1968,[9] and The Breast: Its Problems, Benign and Malignant: And How to Deal With Them in 1977.