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He first tied the femoral artery for popliteal aneurism in 1785. 

 In 1786 he became Deputy Surgeon-General to the Army. 



He suffered from angina pectoris and died with awful sudden- 

 ness on October 16th, 1793 (a?t. 65), at St. George's Hospital, where 

 he went to attend a meeting. His pupil, Ed. Jenner, may be said to 

 have been the first physician in England to diagnose this disease. 



The Hunterian Museum is his great memorial ; his own part of 

 it cost him in money alone £70,000. It was purchased by the 

 Government for £15,000, and presented to the corporate body that, 

 in 1800, became the Royal College of Surgeons. It would take 

 several pages even to enumerate the titles of his works, but some of 

 his views on special subjects are referred to elsewhere. There are 

 numerous and easily accessible biographies. The museum and 

 collections of his brother William are the property of the University 

 of Glasgow. 



The portraits reproduced of John Hunter are two, in photo- 

 gravure. One is the well-known portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds, the 

 other is new. It is taken from a photograph given to me by the late 

 Sir Henry Acland, of Oxford. The statue was presented by the late 

 Queen, Her Majesty Queen Victoria, to the Museum of Oxford, and 

 forms one of a beautiful series of statues that adorn that most 

 delightful and resposeful Valhalla. It was executed by Mr. H. 

 Richard Pinker. In the words of one who has a profound admiration 

 for John Hunter, " Reynolds gives the thinker ; this gives the fighter, 

 physically as well as mentally." 



We need only recall one or two incidents connected with the life- 

 work of WILLIAM HUNTER, the brother of John. 



WILLIAM HUNTER was born in 1718 and died in 1783. 

 His remains are buried in the rector's vault of St. James's 

 Piccadilly — a hero amongst his compeers — having on one side 

 of him the English Hippocrates, Thomas Sydenham, and on the other 

 Richard Bright. 



William, after leaving college, fortunately for medicine, did not 

 obtain the post of schoolmaster in his native parish, and this incident 

 recalls the fact that another great Scotsman — Sir James Young 

 Simpson — fortunately for medicine and humanity, did not get a small 

 post he sought in a small village near the Clyde. SIMPSON'S name 

 must ever remain associated with anaesthesia and chloroform (1847). 



The story of the " two Williams," Wm. Cullen and Wm. Hunter, 

 will be found in John Thomson's Life of Cullen (1832). 



Cullen, at one time a country practitioner in a small town in 

 Lanarkshire, whose name is intimately linked with that of the Hunters 

 and Black, acquired a European fame. 



