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University, and afterwards came to Edinburgh for the medical 
classes. He graduated in the year 1813. He died in Edinburgh, 
24th June, 1870. 
In the year 1815 he commenced practice in Edinburgh as a 
family physician, and continued there in the same vocation all his 
life. He was most attentive to his duties, very gentleman-like 
in his bearing, and an agreeable, social companion. He possessed 
the regard and esteem of the late Dr Abercrombie, whose family 
he attended when any of its members were ailing. He was with 
Dr Abercrombie himself, during his last illness; and, after his 
death, he wrote a short biographical memoir of his friend and 
patient for the newspapers. 
In the year 1839 Dr Hunter became a Fellow of this Society. 
He was a member of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh, 
and contributed a paper to its Transactions, on u Dislocations of 
the Shoulder and Hip-Joints.” He was a life member of the 
British Association. In the year 1865, he published an in¬ 
teresting pamphlet of forty-one pages on the subject of Life 
Insurance; contrasting the London and Edinburgh offices, and 
showing the superiority of the latter, as regards honest adminis¬ 
tration and principles. He had been a policy holder in a London 
office, as well as in the Scottish Widows’ Fund, and found how 
much more advantageous it was to be connected with the latter, 
than with the former. 
Dr Hunter was employed by the Directors of the Scottish 
National Insurance Company to make a special report on the. 
lives of the assured in that Company. His report, which was 
printed, received much commendation. He had been the medical 
adviser of that Company since the year 1843; as also of the 
English and Scottish Law Life Assurance Association, since the 
year 1847. On the occasion of his death, the Directors of both 
Companies passed minutes, expressing the very high regard 
.which they entertained for him. Whilst his health remained, 
Dr Hunter’s practice was extensive; and his patients had not 
only full confidence in his professional skill, but derived great 
comfort from his visits. One of them writes thus : “ On more than 
one occasion he was the means, in the hand of G-od, of saving 
my life, and many, many times lie has lightened my anxieties) 
