John Hunter (surgeon)

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English: John Hunter (1728–1793) was a Scottish surgeon regarded as the founder of scientific surgery.
Deutsch: John Hunter (1728–1793) war ein schottischer Anatom und gilt als Begründer der wissenschaftlichen Chirurgie.

Portraits[edit]

  • Portrait of John Hunter by his brother-in-law, Robert Home, painted probably about 1770

    Portrait of John Hunter by his brother-in-law, Robert Home, painted probably about 1770

  • Portrait of John Hunter. Copy by Dorofield Hardy of the original by Robert Home now in the Royal Society, c. 1770

    Portrait of John Hunter. Copy by Dorofield Hardy of the original by Robert Home now in the Royal Society, c. 1770

  • John Hunter by John Jackson (1813), after Sir Joshua Reynolds (1786)

    John Hunter by John Jackson (1813), after Sir Joshua Reynolds (1786)

  • John Hunter by John Jackson (detail)

    John Hunter by John Jackson (detail)

  • John Hunter by Sir Nathanial Dance Holland (1793)

    John Hunter by Sir Nathanial Dance Holland (1793)

Family[edit]

  • Portrait of John Hunter sen. (1663–1741) by his son, James Hunter (18th century)

    Portrait of John Hunter sen. (1663–1741) by his son, James Hunter (18th century)

  • John Hunter’s brother William Hunter (1718–1783). Portrait by Alan Ramsay in about 1758

    John Hunter’s brother William Hunter (1718–1783). Portrait by Alan Ramsay in about 1758

Life[edit]

  • Thomas Rowlandson, Resurrection Men

    Thomas Rowlandson, Resurrection Men

  • Drawing, by Thomas Rowlandson, traditionally identified as William Hunter’s dissection room

    Drawing, by Thomas Rowlandson, traditionally identified as William Hunter’s dissection room

  • Thomas Rowlandson, Transplanting of Teeth (1787)

    Thomas Rowlandson, Transplanting of Teeth (1787)

  • John Hunter’s certificate of election to Fellowship of the Royal Society

    John Hunter’s certificate of election to Fellowship of the Royal Society

  • Leicester Square in the eighteenth century. John Hunter’s house was probably the taller one with the portico

    Leicester Square in the eighteenth century. John Hunter’s house was probably the taller one with the portico

  • Photograph of Hunter’s coffin taken when it was being re-interred in Westminster Abbey in 1859

    Photograph of Hunter’s coffin taken when it was being re-interred in Westminster Abbey in 1859

Works[edit]

  • Jan van Rymsdyk’s most famous plate from William Hunter’s Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus. John Hunter worked together with Van Rymsdyk in the dissecting room. John preparing the display from the corpse of women who had died in various stages of pregnancy, and Jan making life-size drawings in red chalk.

    Jan van Rymsdyk’s most famous plate from William Hunter’s Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus. John Hunter worked together with Van Rymsdyk in the dissecting room. John preparing the display from the corpse of women who had died in various stages of pregnancy, and Jan making life-size drawings in red chalk.

  • Drawing, possibly by John Hunter himself, to show the position of the blow-hole in the whale (18th century)

    Drawing, possibly by John Hunter himself, to show the position of the blow-hole in the whale (18th century)

  • John Hunter’s Giraffe (c. 1780)

    John Hunter’s Giraffe (c. 1780)

  • Title page of A Treatise on the Blood, Inflammation and Gun-shot Wounds, by the Late John Hunter (1794)

    Title page of A Treatise on the Blood, Inflammation and Gun-shot Wounds, by the Late John Hunter (1794)

Statues, busts, etc.[edit]

  • Bust of John Hunter in Leicester Square, London

    Bust of John Hunter in Leicester Square, London

  • Plaque on the Hunters building, 30 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London

    Plaque on the Hunters building, 30 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London

  • John Hunter statue at Oxford University

    John Hunter statue at Oxford University

Hunterian Collection[edit]

  • Part of the Hunterian Collections on display at The Royal College of Surgeons of England

    Part of the Hunterian Collections on display at The Royal College of Surgeons of England


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