Memoirs of the life and doctrines of the late John Hunter, esq. Founder of the Hunterian museum, at the Royal college of surgeons in London / By Joseph Adams.

  • Adams, Joseph, 1756-1818.
Date:
1817
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Credit: Memoirs of the life and doctrines of the late John Hunter, esq. Founder of the Hunterian museum, at the Royal college of surgeons in London / By Joseph Adams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in his 70th year, and afterwards the indul¬ gence of a widowed mother to the only re¬ maining boy at home, were not likely to sharpen the industry of John. Tov <§’tm 7rarep zioccrxe Qvrsxx oi i^BTce, roicn vbutoitos ecrxs yevotv Kki os (pf^raror s<rxe. Hence, we are not surprized to learn, that from the period John was sent to school to his seventeenth year, his life passed without any improvement from education. At this time an event occurred, which is only important as connected with such a character. There is a general report, that Mr. Hun¬ ter was destined to be a carpenter; and one of his biographers goes so far as to say, 66 a wheelwright or a carpenter he cer¬ tainly was.” Had he really been a wheel¬ wright, a carpenter, and the son of a carpen¬ ter, his discoveries would not be less briH liant, nor his industry less meritorious.—Sir Everard Home tells us, that “ about this time Mr. Buchanan, who had lately come i