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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    with respect. Even the subsequent misun¬ derstanding between him and Dr. Hunter produced no effect on John. In the year 1753, Mr. Hunter entered as Gentleman Commoner in St. Mary’s Hall, Oxford. What his intentions were at that time we cannot learn from any of his biogra¬ phers. It is, however, most probable, that till then Dr. William had not completely made up his own mind to relinquish surgery. Certain it is, that he was not established as Physician to the Lying-in Hospital till about that time, nor a Licentiate of the London College till September, 175b.* It might, therefore, have been his intention that his brother should be matriculated at an English University, with a view to his becoming a Fellow of the London College. May we be allowed to conjecture what might have been the consequence; could John, after five years close application to the structure of parts in the dead, and the operations of nature in the 4 Life of Dr. William Hunter, by Dr. J. F. Symonds, p. IS,