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of the founders of the Royal Medical Society of that city (1737). 

 He practised as a surgeon in Hamilton in 1736, and took his M.D. in 

 Glasgow in 1740. He removed to Glasgow, where he practised his 

 profession and lectured on medicine, botany, and materia medica, and 

 chemistry, and became Professor of Medicine in Glasgow University. 

 He was the first to give up lecturing in the Latin tongue. He was 

 elected to the Chair of Chemistry in Edinburgh by the Town Council 

 in succession to Dr. Plummer in 1755, a post he held for ten years. 

 He also lectured on clinical medicine in the Royal Infirmary, and had 

 as colleagues Dr. R. Whytt and Professor Monro, and he succeeded, 

 on the death of Whytt in 1766, to the Professorship of Institutes of 

 Medicine. The Chair of Chemistry was then filled by his pupil Black. 

 For a time he was co-professor with Gregory. He resigned in 1789, 

 and was succeeded by Dr. James Gregory. He died in 1790 ait. 78. 



JOHN HUNTER. 



1728-1793. 



THE immortal John Hunter was born at Long Calderwood, 

 the youngest of ten children. His brother William had early 

 migrated to London, and was not only a successful 

 practitioner there, but was lecturer in the Windmill Street School of 

 Medicine. John, who had passed three years in a workshop in 

 Glasgow, joined him in 1748 as an assistant in the School of Anatomy. 

 In 1754 he entered as a pupil in St. George's Hospital, becoming 

 house-surgeon in 1756. In 1761 he became an army surgeon and 

 went to Belleisle and Portugal where he remained three years, his 

 place as assistant to his brother being supplied by Wm. Hewson. 

 WM. HEWSON was born at Hexham, 1739, and, when he 

 came to London, lived with John Hunter, taught anatomy, and had 

 a department in Windmill Street with Wm. Hunter. His 

 chief works— and some of them are classical — deal with the Blood, 

 Lymphatic System in Birds, Lymph, Red Particles of Blood. See 

 Works of W. Heivson, by Geo. Gulliver (New Sydenham Soc, 

 1846). He died on May 1st, 1774, from the results of a dissection 

 wound at the early age of thirty-five. 



On his return to England, Jack Hunter, as he was called, settled in 

 London, lectured on practical anatomy, surgery, dissected, collected, 

 built a house at Earl's Court for keeping his strange collection of living 

 animals, and at the same time followed the practice of his profession. 



In 1776 he was appointed surgeon extraordinary to the King. 

 He removed to Leicester Square in 1783 and erected a building for 

 his collection of all kinds of preparations — anatomical and pathological 

 — human and comparative. 



