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John Hunter FRS (13 February 1728 – 16 October 1793) was a Scottish surgeon, one of the most distinguished scientists and surgeons of his day. He was an early advocate of careful observation and scientific methods in medicine.
In era of bloodletting and imbalances of the four humors, John Hunter (1728–1793) challenged tradition and defined surgical scholarship. He introduced the modern approach to surgery: Begin with a thorough understanding of anatomy and physiology, meticulously observe the symptoms of disease in a living patient and post-mortem findings of those that died of it, then, on the basis of the ...
Hunter's key work. Hunter was keen to develop more scientific methods in researching medicine. For example, he carried out an experiment to prove his belief that syphilis and gonorrhoea ...
Aug 5, 2015 · John Hunter was born in 1728 in Kilbride East, Lanarkshire, Scotland, as the youngest child of a family of ten children. John’s father died in 1741 and he was thus left to care for his mother. When John was about 17, young John moved to London to study under William Hunter (1718–1783), his 10-year-elder brother and was already an anatomist ...
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John Hunter was born in 1728 at Long Calderwood, a farm eight miles south of Glasgow, in Scotland. In 1748 at the age of 20 he moved to London to work as an assistant in the anatomy school of his elder brother William (1718-1783). Under William's direction, John learnt human anatomy and showed great skill in dissection and preparing specimens.
Sep 1, 2009 · Introduction. Maverick, Scottish-born 18th-century surgeon John Hunter was Georgian London's most popular surgeon in the late 18th century. 1,2 He made exceptional contributions to advancing the understanding and practice of medicine through observation and experiment.
Scottish-born 18th-century surgeon John Hunter is acclaimed today as one of the founders of an approach to surgery based on observation and experiment. He was born in East Kilbride, Scotland, in 1728, the youngest of 10 children in a relatively humble farming family.
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