1718–1783 Scottish anatomist and male midwife who pioneered anatomy teaching in London.
Keywords: anatomy; John Hunter
Hunter, William
WF Bynum, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, London, UK
Published online: April 2002
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002837
| Further Reading | |
| book Brock CH (1983) William Hunter 1718–1783. Glasgow: University of Glasgow Press. | |
| book Bynum WF and Porter RS (eds) (1985) William Hunter and the Eighteenth-Century Medical World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. | |
| book Gillispie CC (ed.) (1970–1980) Dictionary of Scientific Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. | |
| book Illingworth C (1967) The Story of William Hunter. Edinburgh: Livingstone. | |
