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Credit: John Hunter and his pupils / By S.D. Gross. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![tients were mainly from among the nobility and the higher classes of society, and consequently could afford to pay large fees. He was an indefatigable student to the last days of his life, possessed a strong, inquisitive, and original mind, and was the author of numerous works evincing great research, patient industry, and extraordinary powers of observation. Among these works the treatises on hernia, the diseases of the breast and testis, and on dislocations and fractures are wor- thy of special commendation. A complete edition of his surgical works, in three volumes octavo, was pub- lished in 1S36 by Alexander Lee, the elegant editor and translator of Celsus. It is profusely illustrated by colored drawings, interspersed through the text. Sir Asdey died in 1841. A magnificent statue has been erected to his memory in St. Paul's Church, London. As to Home who, Judas Iscariot-like, betrayed his master, little need be added to what is said of him in a former part of this memoir. Born in 1756, at Green- law Castle, in the County of Berwick, Scodand, he studied with Hunter, assisted him in his work, be- came his brother-in-law, and ultimately the custodian of his MSS. He practiced surgery with great credit for forty years, was, for a time, a surgeon in th'e army, acted as President of the Royal College of Surgeons, and was surgeon to George IV and William IV, by the former of whom he was created a baronet in 18] 3. He was the author of numerous contributions on medi- cal and sciendfic subjects, of Lectures on Comparadve Anatomy, of a treadse on Strictures of the Urethra and CEsophagus, of Observations on Cancer, and of a monograph on Diseases of the Prostate Gland. Every one of these works displays marked ability, and formed in its day a useful addition to the literature of the pro- 7](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21220530_0097.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
