APPENDIX. 



Age. 



Year. 





1728 



20 



1748 



25 



1753 



28 



1756 



29 



1757 



A. 



The following is a summary, with the dates, of the chief events of the 

 life of John Hunter : — - 



Event. 

 Birth, 13th or 11th of February, at Lang Calderwood, 



Kilbride, near Glasgow. 

 Migration to London to his brother, Dr. "Win. Hunter. 

 Entered as 'Gentleman Commoner ' at St. Mary's, Oxford. 

 House-surgeon at St. George's Hospital, London. 

 Prosector and Demonstrator in Dr. ¥m. Hunter's Theatre 

 of Anatomy, in Great Windmill Street. 

 33 1761 As Surgeon in the Army, accompanied the Expedition to 



Belleisle. 

 35 1763 Eeturned from Portugal to London. 

 38 1766 Communicated his first Paper, printed in the ' Trans- 

 actions of the Eoyal Society,' entitled "Anatomical 

 Description of an Amphibious Bipes." [Hunter had 

 previously communicated a Paper ' On the Placenta,' 

 which was not printed.] 

 Elected Eellow of the Eoyal Society of London. 

 Became ' Member of the Corporation of Surgeons.' 

 Elected Surgeon to St. George's Hospital : had his first 



attack of the gout. 

 Jenner became Hunter's House-pupil. 

 Married Miss Home. Published his ' Treatise on the 

 Natural History and Diseases of the Human Teeth.' 

 41 1772 Communicated his Paper ' On the Torpedo ' to the Eoyal 

 Society. Mr. (afterwards Sir Everard) Home, his 

 wife's brother, became his pupil. 



45 1773 His first attack of 'Angina pectoris.' 



46 1774 Gave his first Course of Lectures 'On the Principles of 

 Surgery.' 



48 1776 Appointed Surgeon Extraordinary to His Majesty. Mr. 

 TTm. Bell became Hunter's assistant. 



39 



1767 



40 



176S 



41 



1769 



42 



1770 



43 



1771 



