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This historical retrospective examines the famous portrait of John Hunter by Sir Joshua Reynolds, focusing on the man and the objects that were chosen to represent his legacy in anatomy and surgery.

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The Picture of Scientific Surgery: John Hunter and the Reynolds Portrait

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