John Hunter
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- John Hunter
- Background
- Born February 13th 1728 (Lanarkshire, Scotland)
- Died October 16th 1793 (London, England)
- He suffered from angina pectoris an died of a coronary occlusion
- Founder of the pathological anatomy in England
- He went to London in 1748 to assist his prepare dissections for his brother.
- His brother William was a famed Obstetrician
- In 1760 he accepted a commission as an Army Surgeon
- Experiments
- To show that Gonorrhoea and Syphilis were different he gave himself the diseases and developed symptoms from both.
- He experimented with transplant operations on Chickens
- He transplanted human teeth, but his original attempts were failures because of graft rejection
- He realised the need for fresh transplant tissue and a size match
- He tied ligatures around a stag's carotid artery to demonstrate collateral circulation.
- He translated this research to formulate procedures that could bypass vascular aneurysms.
- He performe the first dissection of an elephant when the kings elephant died.
- His Role in Educating Others
- In 1764 he set up his own anatomy school in London
- He developed new techniques for dealing with gunshot wounds and venereal disease.
- In 1763 he began to build his private practice
- Edward Jenner (who made the first small pox vaccine) was one of his students
- He moved to a large house in Leicester Square and arranged a teaching museum for his students
- In 1768 he was elected Surgeon to St George's Hospital
- Museums and Specimens
- When he died his collection was bought by the nation.
- His set up his own museum in 1783
- His museum had about five thousand wet preparations, three thousand stuffed or dried animals,
- His museum also had one thousand and two hundred fossils, nearly 1000 osteology specimens and almost a thousand diseased organs.
- His collection is now kept at the Royal College of Surgens
- He collected specimens of lizards and other animals.
- As his reputation grew he was supplied wth rare specimens such as kangaroos.
- Books and Research
- He wrote a book on venereal disease, which was the first text to discuss it in a non-judgmental manner
- To research Venereal Disease he infected himself with Gonorrhea and Syphilis
- He worked on things like Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Child Development, Gunshot Wounds and Dentistry
- John Hunter's A Treatise on the Blood, Inflammation and Gunshot Wounds was published in 1794
- John Hunter studied human reproductive anatomy, and in eighteenth century England, performed one of the earliest described cases of artificial insemination.
- He helped to describe the exchange of blood between pregnant women and their fetuses
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