JB
's uncle and godfather, Dr John Hunter
, was a distinguished physician and anatomist.
Feminist Companion Archive.
under Anne Hunter
Family and Intimate relationships
Anne Hunter
Anne Home
, aged about thirty, married John Hunter
, surgeon, anatomist, and physiologist, at St James's Church, Piccadilly.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Hunter, Anne. The Life and Poems of Anne Hunter, Haydn’s Tuneful Voice. Editor Grigson, Caroline, Liverpool University Press, 2009.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Anne Hunter
John Hunter
, surgeon and scientist, husband of AH
, collapsed and died after an attack of the angina from which he had suffered for twenty years.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Friends, Associates
Anne Hunter
At a time when scientists were keen to investigate human ethnic differences, AH
met and entertained first a group of Inuit who had agreed to travel to London with explorer George Cartwright
, then the...
Textual Features
Hilary Mantel
Charles Byrne
travelled from Ireland to London at the end of the eighteenth century to put himself on display as a freak or monster. Though he took ingenious steps to try to keep his body...
Hunter, Anne. The Life and Poems of Anne Hunter, Haydn’s Tuneful Voice. Editor Grigson, Caroline, Liverpool University Press, 2009.
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The works that she left unprinted were chiefly songs (some of them pastoral)...
Wealth and Poverty
Anne Hunter
John Hunter
had severed relations with his brother William
, his eminent medical colleague and former patron, when the latter died on 15 March 1783. William left a controlling share of the family estate of...
Timeline
1790: The first successful artificial insemination...
Building item
1790
The first successful artificial insemination was performed, by a lay person, as recommended by Scottish surgeon John Hunter
.
Chen, Serena H., and Edward E. Wallach. “Five Decades of Progress in Management of the Infertile Couple”. Fertility and Sterility, Vol.
62
, No. 4, Oct. 1994, pp. 665-85.
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Wood, Clive. Vasectomy and Sterilization. Temple Smith, 1974.