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John Hunter (1754–1809) was a Scottish physician. ==Life== Hunter was born in Perthshire, and studied medicine at Edinburgh, where he graduated M.D. in 1775. He was admitted a licentiate of the College of Physicians of London in 1777, and appointed physician to the army through the interest of George Baker and William Heberden. 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.〔 As Gulstonian lecturer in 1796, Hunter lectured on softening of the brain, which he is said to have been the first to treat as a distinct pathological condition; the lecture was not published. He delivered the Croonian lectures from 1799 to 1801. He was later physician extraordinary to the Prince of Wales.〔 Hunter died on 29 January 1809 at Hill Street, London.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Hunter (physician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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