A treatise on the blood, inflammation, and gun-shot wounds (Volume 1).

  • Hunter, John, 1728-1793.
Date:
1796
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Credit: A treatise on the blood, inflammation, and gun-shot wounds (Volume 1). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    arm in which all the arteries were injected, and thefe, as well as the mufcles were to be expofed and preferved ; the manner in which this was per- formed, gave Dr. Hunter fo much fatisfa&ion, that he did not fcruple to fay, that his brother would become a good anatomift, and that he fnould not want for employment. From this period we may confider Mr. Hunter as having ferioufly engaged in anatomy and under the inftruclions of Dr. Hunter and his afTiflant Mr. Sy- monds, he had every opportunity of Improvement, as all the diife&ions at this time carried on in Lon- don were confine.! to that fchool. In the fummer 1749, Mr. Chefelden, at the re- <}iieft of Dr. Hunter, permitted him to attend at Chelfea Hofpital, and he there learnt the firft rudi- ments of furgery. The following winter he was fo far advanced in the knowledge of human anatomy, as to inftrucl: the pupils in diffeftion, to whom Dr. Hunter had very little time to pay attention. This office, there- fore, fell almofl entirely upon him, and was his conftant employment during the winter feafon. In the fummer months of 1750, Mr. Hunter at- tended the hofpital at Chelfea; in 1751, he became a pupil at St. Bartholomew's, and in the winter was prefent at operations occafionally, whenever any thing extraordinary occurred. The following fummer he went to Scotland, and brought up his fitter Dorothea, and in 1753 entered as a gentle- man commoner at St. Mary Hall, Oxford. In 1794, he became a furgeon's pupil, at St. George's Hofpital, where he continued during the fummer months, and in 1756, was appointed houfe-fur- geon. In the winter, 1755, Dr. Hunter admitted him to a partnerfhip in his lectures, and a certain por- tion of the courfe was allotted to him, befide*