12 February 1841 in London, and is interred, by his own desire, in the crypt of the Chapel of Thomas Guy, St Thomas Street (on the site now shared by King's College London and Guy's Hospital). A statue by Edward Hodges Baily was erected in St Paul's Cathedral. Cooper lived at Gadebridge House in the market town of Hemel Hempstead. Due to his influence, among others who were also residents of the area, his vigorous lobbying ensured that the London to Birmingham main railway line was constructed to the south of the town instead of through it, a more natural course. This led to the citizens of Hemel Hempstead having no railway station in their town. Today, Cooper is remembered in the area with a number of local street names (Astley Cooper Place in the village of his birth, Brooke, Norfolk), (Astley Road and Paston Road in Hemel Hempstead), and The Astley Cooper School, formerly Grovehill school, being renamed after him in 1984. Works In the field of vascular surgery and cerebral circulation, Cooper was the first to demonstrate experimentally the effects of bilateral ligation of the carotid arteries in dogs and to propose treatment of aneurysms by ligation of the vessel. In 1805 he published in the first volume of Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, an account of his attempt to tie the common carotid artery for treating an aneurysm in a patient. In 1808 he tried the same with the external iliac artery for a femoral aneurysm and in 1817 he ligated the aorta for an iliac aneurysm. Cooper was an anatomist and identified several previously undescribed anatomical structures, many of which were named after him: Cooper's fascia, a covering of the spermatic cord. Cooper's pubic ligament, the superior pubic ligament. Cooper's stripes, a fibrous structure in the ulnar ligaments. Cooper's ligaments, the suspensory ligaments of the breasts. He also described a number of new diseases, which likewise became eponymous: Cooper's testis (neuralgia of the testicles) Cooper's disease (benign cysts of the breast) Cooper's hernia (retroperitoneal hernia) Cooper's neuralgia (neuralgia of the breast) His chief published works were: Anatomy and Surgical Treatment of Hernia (1804–1807); Dislocations and Fractures (1822); Lectures on Surgery (1824–1827); Illustrations of Diseases of the Breast (1829); Anatomy of the Thymus Gland (1832); Anatomy of the Breast (1840). Many of Cooper's original experimental and surgical specimens are now held in the collections of the Gordon Museum of Pathology.