biography
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| lived:
| (1718–83)
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| biography:
| Anatomist and obstetrician, born in Long Calderwood, East Kilbride, WC Scotland, UK, the brother of John Hunter. He studied medicine at Glasgow University, and became a physician in London (1756), also teaching surgery and anatomy. He introduced the practice of dissection of cadavers for medical students. From about 1756 he confined his practice to obstetrics, and was appointed physician-extraordinary to Queen Charlotte (1762). He was appointed the first professor of anatomy to the Royal Academy (1768). Through him obstetrics became a recognized branch of medicine. |
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