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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    tendance. This must have been a painful task for John. Anatomical Lectures, to be rendered interesting, must be given extem¬ pore ; a talent in which Dr. Hunter can never be excelled, any more than in an easy and perspicuous mode of demonstra¬ tion. Unfortunately, few men were less suited than his brother to be placed in com¬ petition with him. For dissection, however, and making ana¬ tomical preparations, none could exceed him. Sir Everard here remarks, that “ Mr. Hun- ter worked for ten years on human anatomy ; during which period he made himself master of what was already known, as well as made some addition to that knowledgethat 66 he traced the ramification of the olfactory nerves from the membrane of the nose, and discovered the branches of some of the fifth pair of nervesthat, in the gravid ute¬ rus, he traced the arteries to their termi¬ nation in the placenta :’5 that u he was also the first who discovered the existence of