Astley P. C. Ashhurst

{{short description|American surgeon and medical historian}}

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| birth_name = Astley Paston Cooper Ashhurst

| birth_date = August 21, 1876

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| death_date = September 19, 1932 (aged 56)

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| spouse = Anna P. Campbell (m. 1930)

| occupation = Surgeon

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Astley Paston Cooper Ashhurst (August 21, 1876 – September 19, 1932) was an American surgeon and medical historian. In 1905, as a young surgeon, he observed Peter Freyer perform a suprapubic prostatectomy in London. He later co-authored the Textbook on Surgery with John B. Deaver.Zorgniotti, Adrian W. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Z5K-BwAAQBAJ&q=Ashhurst&pg=PA53 Chapter 7. Suprapubic prostatectomy: An Anglo-Indian success story] in Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy edited by Frank Hinman. Springer-Verlag, New York (1983), pp. 51-54; {{isbn|978-1-4612-54768}}.{{Cite journal|last=Crossan|first=Edward T.|date=March 1933|title=Astley Paston Cooper Ashhurst, M.D., 1876–1932|journal=Annals of Surgery|volume=97|issue=3|pages=474–475|issn=0003-4932|pmc=1391844|pmid=17866947|doi=10.1097/00000658-193303000-00012}}{{Cite web|url=http://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b3063040x|title=Astley Paston Cooper Ashhurst|website=Wellcome Library|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191105172101/https://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b3063040x |archive-date=2019-11-05 |access-date=November 5, 2019}}{{Cite web|url=http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/pacscl/detail.html?id=PACSCL_CPP_MSS20349|title=Astley Paston Cooper Ashhurst Papers, 1895, 1904-1933, 1963, undated|website=dla.library.upenn.edu|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=November 5, 2019}}