page_title: William Hunter (surgeon)
section_title: Medical Mission to Serbia 1915
hierarchical_section_title: William Hunter (surgeon) / Medical Mission to Serbia 1915
caption_attribution_description: English: 100 Years since the end of the Great War - Great doctors of the Great War
context_page_description: Dr. William Hunter CB FRSE was a British surgeon known primarily for his theories on oral sepsis, one of the inspirations for the Henry Cotton theory of focal sepsis which led to the increased number of tooth extractions and tonsillectomies in the 1910s and 20s. By the 1930s, this view had fallen out of favor, but not until after thousands of surgeries had been performed.
context_section_description: He headed the British Military Sanitary Committee to Serbia in 1915 tasked with stopping the 1915 typhus and relapsing fevers there. The epidemic was stopped by June 1915 by introduction of several movement restriction measures and by introduction of a widely used disinfection method, so called Serbian barrel. The mission was described by Dr Hunter himself in a paper presented to the Royal Society of Medicine . The paper was positively reviewed in the Nature Magazine . In Serbia, Hunter is credited as the main contributor to the arrest of the epidemic  . For his work, he was created a Grand Officer of the Serbian Order of St. Sava and a stamp was issued in his honour by the Serbian Post.
caption: Dr William Hunter on a 2018 stamp of Serbia
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