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Hunter left over 13,000 specimens, a significant number of which were destroyed in an air-raid in May 1941.
2.
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3.Jesse Foot, arch rival of John Hunter in the London medical community of the later part of the eighteenth century .
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Personal communication from George Qvist, 31st December 1979.
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Added by G.B. Babington to The Surgical Works of John Hunter, London, 1835 (vol 2 , p 46 ), published more than forty years after Hunter's death
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G
: John Hunter's alleged syphilis . Ann Roy Coll Surg Eng , 59 : 205 –209 , 1977 .
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Personal communication from J. L. Turk to G. Qvist (see footnote 8, Ann Roy Coll Surg Eng, 59: 205, 1977.
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See chapter eight of Qvist's biography.