![]() It discovers and ascertains the truth, overturns superstition and vulgar error. He wrote: “Anatomy is the only solid foundation of medicine it is to the physician and surgeon what geometry is to the astronomer. ![]() 1 2įrom his earliest days in London, anatomy was Hunter’s main interest. By 1762, at the age of 44, when he was appointed Physician Extraordinary to Queen Charlotte, he had become the leading physician–man midwife of his day. Meantime his private practice was flourishing. In 1748 he was appointed to the Lying-in Department of the Middlesex Hospital and to the British Lying-in Hospital in 1749. In 1747 Hunter was admitted to the Corporation of Surgeons and in 1750 received the degree of MD from the University of Glasgow the Licentiate of the College of Physicians followed in 1756. He also studied surgery at St George’s, London. ![]() ![]() In 1741, after a brief period of study in Edinburgh, he travelled to London to become first a house pupil of the famous Dr William Smellie and then assistant to the distinguished obstetrician–anatomist, Dr James Douglas. At the age of 14 he entered the University of Glasgow to study theology, but after five years decided to become a doctor and for three happy years assisted Dr William Cullen in Hamilton. ![]() William, the seventh child of John and Agnes Hunter, was born at Long Calderwood, Kilbride, Lanarkshire. ![]()
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