Time to Finally Abandon a False Trail all Surgical Roads Lead to John Hunter

Hunter left over 13,000 specimens, a significant number of which were destroyed in an air-raid in May 1941.

Rogers G : Brother Surgeons. London, Putnam, 1957.

Jesse Foot, arch rival of John Hunter in the London medical community of the later part of the eighteenth century.

Qvist G : Hunterian Oration 1979. Ann Roy Coll Surg Eng, 61: March – November 1979.

Power D : Hunterian Oration - John Hunter as a man. Lancet, 1: 369–376, 1925.

Personal communication from George Qvist, 31st December 1979.

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

Qvist G : John Hunter's alleged syphilis. Ann Roy Coll Surg Eng, 59: 205–209, 1977.

Qvist G : Hunterian Oration 1979. Ann Roy Coll Surg Eng, 61: March – November 1979.

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Livesley B : Medical History, 17: 70, 1973.

Personal communication from J. L. Turk to G. Qvist (see footnote 8, Ann Roy Coll Surg Eng, 59: 205, 1977.

Foot J : The Life of John Hunter. London, Beckett, 1794.

Power D : Hunterian Oration - John Hunter as a man. Lancet, 1:369–376, 1925.

Cohen B : Ann Roy Coll Surg Eng, 66: 59–62, 1984.

Editorial, British Medical Journal, 1, 391, 1978

Dempster WJ , ibid

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See chapter eight of Qvist's biography.