MEMOIR OF JOHK HUNTER. 
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tures, he gave to Military Surgery — ami by hi& pub- 
lieation on Gun-abot Wounds, See. by which he in- 
troduced no inconsiderable improvement into tlie 
art. 
I^ut it is more to our purpose to remark, that, in 
these years of active service, Mr Hunter still found 
time for the prosecution of bis favourite study of 
natural history. Many allusions to his observations 
and experiments made at this period, occur in pa- 
pers which were not written till years afterwards. 
®nr limits do not permit us to enter on an analysis 
nf any of these observations, and still less of the 
pnpers in whiclt they were presented to tlie public. 
But We cannot refrain from inserting one or two spt- 
'^'niens, which wdll serve to verify the representa- 
tions we have given of Mr Hunter’s assiduity, and 
at the same time exhibit the inventive and ori- 
ginal character of his mind. 
In a very elaliorate paper of Mr Hunter’s on the 
attbject of Digestion, the following passage occurs : 
making comparative experiments upon the 
'digestive power, the different animals sliould be un- 
t^or similar circumstances. They sliould be equal in 
*ee, in condition, in liealth. They should likewise 
of the same temperature; for the different classes 
unimals are variously affected by the same degree 
lieat. Experiments made upon snakes in the 
"’Inter, will differ greatly from those made in the 
®Utnmer ; while similar experiments made on dogs 
"ill have nearly the same result in both seasons. 
