The works of John Hunter
By: edited by James F. Palmer
Contributors: Hunter, John, 1728-1793; Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Publisher: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman
Published: 1835
Place of publication: London
Language: und
Subjects: Surgery; Hunter, John, 1728-1793; Medicine - collected works; Surgeons - biography
Notes: Refr: G-M 78; Eimas 975 Cont: Includes a silhouette portrait of the author in vol. 1, and an engraved portrait in the Atlas volume Note: "The veritable founder of experimental and surgical pathology and one of the three greatest surgeons of all time" (Morton). Among his many accomplishments, Hunter was also responsible for founding some of the greatest medical museums in Europe - the Hunterian museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England was based on his own private collection. This is the first collected edition of his works. Volume 1 includes a life of Hunter by Drewry Ottley.

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