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on the outskirts of Glasgow; the youngest of 10 children. He

out of school at the age of 13 years. Despite this background

he was to become one of the of the most influential British surgeons of the 18th
century.

and obstetrician, enquiring as to whether he could join him

in London. Later that year he began preparing anatomical dissections and within a year he was helping his brother teach anatomy. John Hunter became an assistant to William Cheselden at the Chelsea
Hospital and in 1751 he was appointed apprentice to Sir Percival Pott at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Between 1754 and 1756 he worked as a house surgeon at In 1761,
he developed pulmonary tuberculosis, a disease which was to affect him for much of his working life. In order to improve his health he was commissioned as an army

years. During this time he became familiar with the management of

war wounds and their complications. In 1764, he returned to London where he set up his own anatomy school and started in private surgical
practice. His surgical career was slow to be
established. However, in 1767 he was elected as Fellow of the Royal Society and in 1768 he was appointed as surgeon to St. George's Hospital. He became a member of the Company of Surgeons but he was never to hold high office within the organisation.

medical practice of the
time. His first book, Natural History of Human

Teeth, was

coined the terms bicuspids, cuspids, incisors and molars. His second book,

A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Teeth, described dental pathology. In 1786 he published A Treatise on Venereal Disease in which he described chancre and lymphogranuloma venereum.
In The Digestion of the Stomach after Death (1772) he described shock and intussusception and in A Treatise on Blood, Inflammation and Gun-Shot Wounds (1794) he
questioned the need to surgically enlarge gun-shot wounds and disproved the belief that gunpowder was
poisonous. In 1786 he was appointed deputy surgeon to

described ligation of the femoral artery in the treatment
of popliteal

aneurysms.
The lack of a university education failed to lessen his contributions to surgery, medicine and science. Many of these contributions were the result of clear and concise personal observations based on innumerable hours spent

high regard and his famous pupils include Benjamin Bell, Astley

Cooper, Everard Home and Edward Jenner.

St. George's Hospital.