Cowper, WILLIAM, surgeon and anatomist, was born at Petersfield, in Sussex, in 1666, settled as a surgeon in London, and died 8th March 1709. He made some new anatomical observations, notably discovering the glands beneath the male urethra called 'Cowper's glands,' and published The Anatomy of Humane Bodies (1698) and other works.
Cowper, WILLIAM
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 534
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