John Hunter (surgeon)

**John Hunter**
	Scottish surgeon (1728-1793) Portrait par John Jackson, 1813, d’après Reynolds, 1786.
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Date of birth	13 February 1728; East Kilbride
Date of death	16 October 1793; London
Manner of death	natural causes;
Cause of death	myocardial infarction;
Place of burial	Westminster Abbey;
Country of citizenship	Kingdom of Great Britain;
Educated at	St George's, University of London; Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry;
Occupation	military physician; physician; university teacher; surgeon; anatomist;
Employer	University of London;
Member of	Royal Society; American Philosophical Society;
Sibling	William Hunter;
Spouse	Anne Hunter;
Award received	Fellow of the Royal Society; Copley Medal (1787); Croonian Medal and Lecture (1775);
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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

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
John Hunter by John Jackson (1813), after Sir Joshua Reynolds (1786)
John Hunter by John Jackson (detail)
John Hunter by Sir Nathanial Dance Holland (1793)

Family

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

Life

Thomas Rowlandson, Resurrection Men
Drawing, by Thomas Rowlandson, traditionally identified as William Hunter’s dissection room
Thomas Rowlandson, Transplanting of Teeth (1787)
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
Photograph of Hunter’s coffin taken when it was being re-interred in Westminster Abbey in 1859

Works

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)
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)