John Hunter (surgeon), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

John Hunter (surgeon)

Scottish surgeon

Date of Birth: 13-Feb-1728

Place of Birth: Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 16-Oct-1793

Profession: physician, surgeon, university teacher, military physician, anatomist

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

John Hunter (13 February 1728 – 16 October 1793) was a Scottish surgeon, one of the most distinguished scientists and surgeons of his day.
He was an early advocate of careful observation and scientific method in medicine.
He was a teacher of, and collaborator with, Edward Jenner, pioneer of the smallpox vaccine.
He is alleged to have paid for the stolen body of Charles Byrne, and proceeded to study and exhibit it against the deceased's explicit wishes.
His wife, Anne Hunter (née Home), was a poet, some of whose poems were set to music by Joseph Haydn. He learned anatomy by assisting his elder brother William with dissections in William's anatomy school in Central London, starting in 1748, and quickly became an expert in anatomy.
He spent some years as an Army surgeon, worked with the dentist James Spence conducting tooth transplants, and in 1764 set up his own anatomy school in London.
He built up a collection of living animals whose skeletons and other organs he prepared as anatomical specimens, eventually amassing nearly 14,000 preparations demonstrating the anatomy of humans and other vertebrates, including 3,000+ animals. Hunter became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1767. The Hunterian Society of London was named in his honour, and the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons preserves his name and his collection of anatomical specimens.
It still contains the illegally procured body of Charles Byrne, despite ongoing protests.



Alternative names	j. jackson; Jackson; Esq. R.A. J. Jackson; Mr Jackson
Description	English portrait painter
Date of birth/death	31 May 1778	1 June 1831
Location of birth/death	Lastingham, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom	London, England, United Kingdom
Authority control	: Q5390252 VIAF: 56875554 ISNI: 0000 0000 6658 3932 ULAN: 500003894 LCCN: nr92013131 Oxford Dict.: 14532 WorldCat



Alternative names	Sir Joshua Reynolds
Description	British painter
Date of birth/death	16 July 1723	23 February 1792
Location of birth/death	Plympton	London
Work location	London, Plympton, Italy
Authority control	: Q194402 VIAF: 27081216 ISNI: 0000 0001 0881 5237 ULAN: 500004539 LCCN: n84168483 NLA: 35449606 WorldCat