WF Bynum, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, London, UK
Published online: July 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002437
1728–1793 British surgeon, anatomist and experimentalist who did much to raise the status of surgery and whose extensive collection of specimens formed the basis of the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons.
Keywords: william hunter; edward jenner
| Further Reading | |
| book Hunter J (1835–1837) The Works of John Hunter, (4 vols, plus Atlas) Palmer JF (ed.). London: Longmans. | |
| book Hunter J (1861) Essays and Observations on Natural History, Anatomy, Physiology, Psychology and Geology (2 vols), Owen R (ed.). London: Longmans. | |
| Cross SJ (1981) John Hunter, the animal economy, and late eighteenth-century physiological discourse. Studies in History of Biology 5: 1–110. | |
| book Gillispie CC (ed.) (1970–1980) Dictionary of Scientific Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. | |
| book Dobson J (1969) John Hunter. Edinburgh: Livingstone. | |
| book Qvist G (1981) John Hunter 1728-1793. London: Heinemann. | |
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