Author:John Hunter (1728-1793)

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John Hunter
(1728–1793)

John Hunter

Works

• The natural history of the human teeth: explaining their structure, use, formation, growth, and diseases (1771)
• Treatise on the Venereal Disease (1786)
• Observations on certain parts of the Animal Oeconomy (1786)
• Treatise on the Blood, Inflammation and Gunshot Wounds (1794)

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society

• "A supplement to the account of an amphibious bipes; by John Ellis, Esq; (Art. XXII.) being the anatomical description of the said animal" in Philosophical Transactions, 56, pp. 307–310
• "On the digestion of the stomach after death, by John Hunter, F.R.S. and surgeon to St. George's Hospital" in Philosophical Transactions, 62, pp. 447–454
• "Anatomical observations on the torpedo." in Philosophical Transactions, 63, pp. 481–489
• "An account of certain receptacles of air, in birds, which communicate with the lungs, and are lodged both among the fleshy parts and in the hollow bones of those animals" in Philosophical Transactions, 64, pp. 205–213
• "Observations on the gillaroe trout, commonly called in Ireland, the gizzard trout" in Philosophical Transactions, 64, pp. 310–317
• "An account of the Gymnotus Electricus" in Philosophical Transactions, 65, pp. 395–407
• "Experiments on animals and vegetables, with respect to the power of producing heat" in Philosophical Transactions, 65, pp. 446–458
• "Proposals for the recovery of people apparently drowned" in Philosophical Transactions, 66, pp. 412–425
• "Of the heat, &c. of animals and vegetables" in Philosophical Transactions, 68, pp. 7–49
• "Account of the free martin" in Philosophical Transactions, 69, pp. 279–293
• "Account of a woman who had the small pox during pregnancy, and who seemed to have communicated the same disease to the fœtus" in Philosophical Transactions, 70, pp. 128–142
• "Account of an extraordinary pheasant" in Philosophical Transactions, 70, pp. 527–535
• "Account of the organ of hearing in fish" in Philosophical Transactions, 72, pp. 379–383
• "An experiment to determine the effect of extirpating one ovarium upon the number of young produced" in Philosophical Transactions, 77, pp. 233–239
• "Observations tending to shew that the wolf, jackal, and dog, are all of the same species" in Philosophical Transactions, 77, pp. 253–266
• "Observations on the structure and oeconomy of whales. By John Hunter, Esq. F.R.S. communicated by Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. P.R.S" in Philosophical Transactions, 77, pp. 371–450
• "Some observations on the heat of wells and springs in the island of Jamaica, and on the temperature of the Earth below the surface in different climates" in Philosophical Transactions, 78, pp. 53–65
• "An account of a particular change of structure in the human ovarium" in Philosophical Transactions, 79, pp. 71–78
• "A supplementary letter on the identity of the species of the dog, wolf, and jackal; from John Hunter, Esq. F.R.S. addressed to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. P.R.S" in Philosophical Transactions, 79, pp. 160–161
• "Observations on bees" in Philosophical Transactions, 82, pp. 128–195
• "Observations on the fossil bones presented to the Royal Society by his most Serene Highness the Margrave of Anspach, &c" in Philosophical Transactions, 84, pp. 407–417

Works about Hunter

• Portal:Hunterian Oration
• Paget, Stephen (1897). John Hunter: Man of Science and Surgeon (1728-1793). London: T. Fisher Unwin.  (external scan)
• "Hunter, John (1728–1793)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Hunter, John," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)