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brother, William Hunter. His studies of ten- 

 dons laid the foundation for the operation for 

 the cure of club feet. His experiments to de- 

 termine the blood-supply for the growing antler 

 of a deer led to the discovery of the "collateral 

 circulation of the blood" one of the most im- 

 portant discoveries in surgery. This led directly 

 to his invention of the "Hunterian" operation 

 for aneurism, an operation still in use, and which 

 has made the name of Hunter immortal in the 

 annals of surgery. 



Hunter, William, iv, 76. Born at Long Cal- 

 derwood, Scotland, May 23, 1718; died at Lon- 

 don, March 30, 1783. British physician, anato- 

 mist and physiologist. The first great teacher 

 of anatomy in England. He discovered the 

 function of the lymphatics, and his writings on 

 the structure of the synovial membranes, in 

 1743, anticipated Bichat's writing on the same 

 theme by sixty years. He established a museum 

 which is now the property of the University of 

 Glasgow. 



Hutton, James, iii, 178. Born at Edinburgh, 

 June 3, 1726; died March 26, 1797. Scottish 

 geologist. One of the founders of geological 

 science. In his "Theory of the Earth," he ex- 

 pounded the doctrine that the present rocks of 

 the earth's surface have been formed out of the 

 waste of older rocks; that these materials have 

 been laid down under the sea and consolidated 

 by great pressure; that the expansive power of 

 subterranean heat afterward upheaved them, and 

 that masses of molten rock were injected into 

 the gaps of the disrupted strata. 



Huxley, Thomas Henry, iii, 112; iv, 174. Born 



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