John Hunter (physician)

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John Hunter

Dr John Hunter

FRSE (1754–1809) was a Scottish physician[1] linked to Jamaica
.

Life

Hunter was born in

College of Physicians of London in 1777, and appointed physician to the army through the interest of George Baker and William Heberden.[2]

From 1781 to 1783 Hunter was superintendent of the military hospitals in Jamaica. On returning to England he settled in practice as a physician in London, first in Charles Street, and then in Hill Street. Elected a fellow of the Royal Society by 1787, he was admitted a fellow of the College of Physicians speciali gratia in 1793, and was made censor the same year.[2]

As

Prince of Wales.[2]

Hunter died on 29 January 1809 at Hill Street, London.[2]

Works

Hunter's college dissertation De Hominum Varietatibus et harum causis (1775) was in the

Anthropological Society.[2][3][4]

In 1787 Hunter contributed to the third volume of the Medical Transactions published by the College of Physicians three papers: one on the occurrence of

typhus fever in the houses of the poor in London; another on morbid anatomy, and a third on the cause of the "dry belly-ache" of the tropics. In the last of these the discovery made by Baker two years earlier, that lead poisoning in cider was the cause of "Devonshire colic", was extended by Hunter to rum which had been distilled through a leaden worm, observations of Benjamin Franklin's being adduced in proof.[2]

In 1788 appeared Hunter's major work, Observations on the Diseases of the Army in Jamaica (2nd ed. 1796; 3rd ed. 1808, with "observations on the hepatitis of the East Indies"). It gives an amplified account of the "dry belly-ache", and deals with yellow fever and other diseases of the troops, as well as more briefly with some other Caribbean maladies. It was translated into German, Leipzig, 1792.[2]

Hunter contributed to the

hydatids.[2]

Family

Hunter married in 1784 Elizabeth LeGrand, daughter of Robert LeGrand.[1]

Notes

  1. ^
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/14221. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Lee, Sidney, ed. (1891). "Hunter, John (d.1809)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 28. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  3. ^ Johann Friedrich Blumenbach; Thomas Bendyshe; Karl Friedrich Heinrich Marx; Pierre Flourens; Rudolph Wagner; John Hunter (1865). Anthropological treatises of Blumenbach and Hunter. Anthropological Society.
  4. ISBN 978-0-8032-7740-3
    .

References


Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1891). "Hunter, John (d.1809)". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 28. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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