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Title: Some apostles of physiology : being an account of their lives and labours, labours that have contributed to the advancement of the healing art as well as to the prevention of disease
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Stirling, William, 1851-1932
Subjects: Physiology Physiologists Physiology
Publisher: London : Priv. print. by Waterlow and sons limited
Contributing Library: West Virginia University Libraries
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to his brother being supplied by Win. Hewson.WM. HEWSON was born at Hexham, 1739, and, when hecame to London, lived with John Hunter, taught anatomy, and hada department in Windmill Street with Wm. Hunter. Hischief works—and some of them are classical—deal with the Blood,Lymphatic System in Birds, Lymph, Red Particles of Blood. SeeWorks of W. Hewson, by Geo. Gulliver (New Sydenham Soc.,1846). He died on May 1st, 1774, from the results of a dissectionwound at the early age of thirty-five. On his return to England, Jack Hunter, as he was called, settled inLondon, lectured on practical anatomy, surgery, dissected, collected,built a house at Earls Court for keeping his strange collection of livinganimals, and at the same time followed the practice of his profession. In 1776 he was appointed surgeon extraordinary to the King.He removed to Leicester Square in 1783 and erected a building forhis collection of all kinds of preparations—anatomical and pathological—human and comparative.
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■ e by Annan 5 Sons. G . -.-—. : JOHN HUNTER. ( 59 ) He first tied the femoral artery for popliteal aneurism in 178.5.In 1786 he became Deputy Surgeon-General to the Army. He suffered from angina pectoris and died with awful sudden-ness on October 16th, 1793 (set. 65), at St. Georges Hospital, wherehe went to attend a meeting. His pupil, Ed. Jenner, may be said tohave been the first physician in England to diagnose this disease. The Hunterian Museum is his great memorial; his own part ofit cost him in money alone £70,000. It was purchased by theGovernment for £15,000, and presented to the corporate body that,in 1800, became the Royal College of Surgeons. It would takeseveral pages even to enumerate the titles of his works, but some ofhis views on special subjects are referred to elsewhere. There arenumerous and easily accessible biographies. The museum andcollections of his brother William are the property of the Universityof Glasgow. The portraits reproduced of John Hunter are

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