Robert Hooper (physician)

After a course of medical study in London he was appointed apothecary to the Marylebone workhouse infirmary.

[1] Settling in Savile Row, Hooper lectured there on the practice of medicine.

[1] Hooper died in Bentinck Street, Manchester Square, on 6 May 1835, in his sixty-third year.

His books sold well, and revised editions remained in print to the end of the century.

Hooper wrote: Drawings for the illustrations were made by John Howship, George Kirtland and John Stewart Jr.[2] This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bettany, George Thomas (1891).