John Hunter : his life and labors / by C.W.G. Rohrer.

  • Rohrer, C. W. G. (Caleb Wyand Geeting), 1873-1952
Date:
[1914]
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Credit: John Hunter : his life and labors / by C.W.G. Rohrer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Surgery of to-day is immensely indebted to Hunter.37 His [24] constant saying was: “ We are but beginning to learn our profession.” Head though he has been for an hundred and twenty years, yet the principles which lie taught and the foun- dations which he laid have become the woof and warp of the surgical fabric of the present day. The ever-widening circle of his influence still abides. To quote again from Professor Gross: The lesson of the life of such a man, in every respect so grand and colossal, so powerful and majestic in intellect, and so indis- solubly associated with the scientific history of his age and coun- in the Hunterian oration for 1877, pp. 37 and 38, also gives a fine calendar of the chief events of Hunter’s life): Age. Year. Event. 1728 20 1748 25 1753 28 1756 29 1757 33 1761 35 1763 38 1766 39 1767 40 1768 41 1769 42 1770 Birth, 13th or 14th of February, at Long Calderwood, Kilbride, near Glasgow. Migration to London to his brother, Dr. Wm. Hunter. Entered as “ Gentleman Commoner ” at St. Mary’s, Oxford. House-surgeon at St. George’s Hospital, London. Prosector and Demonstrator in Dr. Wm. Hunter’s Theatre of Anatomy, in Great Windmill Street. As Surgeon in the Army, accompanied the Expedition to Belleisle. Returned from Portugal to London. Communicated his first Paper, printed in the Trans- actions of the Royal Society, entitled “ Anatomical Description of an Amphibious Bipes.” Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London. Became “ Member of the Corporation of Surgeons.” Elected Surgeon to St. George’s Hospital: had his first attack of the gout. Jenner became Hunter’s House-pupil. 37 In “Leisure Hour,” No. 385, May 12, 1865, Frank Buckland wrote: Without slighting the labours of other great surgeons and anatomists, it may be confidently affirmed that there is not a man, woman, or child among us who, when struck by the sting of disease, and receiving relief from the art of medicine, does not directly or indirectly receive relief to his suffering from the discoveries of John Hunter.
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