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pride of man in the exhibition. Dr. Hunter 

 having settled in London, sent for his brother 

 John, who accordingly came to England, being 

 at that time in his eighteenth year. He im- 

 mediately apphed himself to the study of ana- 

 tomy and surgery ; and, for several years, he 

 was employed in the dissecting-room, where he 

 suddenly began to display his uncommon abi- 

 lities. The doctor was anxious that he should 

 go into partnership with him, and in the year 

 1758, declared him to be fully adequate to the 

 important office of a Teacher ; but Mr. Hun- 

 ter, with a modesty which is always the at- 

 tendant of genius, felt insuperable embarrass- 

 ments and objections to speaking in public, 

 and he declined the advantageous and honor- 

 able offer, on account of his aversion to public 

 speaking, and his extreme diffidence of his own 

 abilities and skill. But he continued in the 

 same anatomical pursuits till the year I76O j 

 when, anxious for a more enlarged field of ob- 

 servation, he went out as Surgeon General to 

 the Army, first to Belleisle, and afterwards to 

 Portugal. In this extensive scene, he indefa- 

 tigably studied the nature and treatment of 

 gun-shot wounds ; and he acquired great cre- 

 dit from his humanity and talents. He has con- 

 stantly, in his practice, been an enemy to oper- 

 ations—he has resorted to them unwillingly, 



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