William Hunter

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Standard Name: Hunter, William,, 1718 - 1783

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Family and Intimate relationships Joanna Baillie
Another uncle, Dr William Hunter , was the most famous physician in London at the time.
qtd. in
Carhart, Margaret S. The Life and Work of Joanna Baillie. Reprint of 1923, Archon Books, 1970.
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It was he who left Matthew Baillie his London home (and his estate, Long Calderwood) when he died...
Textual Features Christian Isobel Johnstone
The title-page of the first quotes from Francis Bacon (Knowledge is Power) and from the mother of Sir William Jones (Read and you will know).
Johnstone, Christian Isobel. Diversions of Hollycot. Oliver and Boyd, 1828.
title-page
It portrays the widow Mrs...
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

By December 1774: William Hunter published The Anatomy of the...

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By December 1774

William Hunter published The Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus exhibited in Figures: in his work he used casts taken directly from the dead body.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
38 (1774): 408-12
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Elliott, Nathan. “"Unball’d Sockets" and ‘The Mockery of Speech’: Diagnostic Anxiety and the Theater of Joanna Baillie”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
18
, No. 1, Jan. 2007, pp. 83-103.
89-91

July 1784: The Universal Magazine carried a posthumous...

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July 1784

The Universal Magazine carried a posthumous essay by Dr William Hunter (who had died in March 1783) entitled On the Uncertainty of the Signs of Murder in Bastard Children.
Elliott, Nathan. “"Unball’d Sockets" and ‘The Mockery of Speech’: Diagnostic Anxiety and the Theater of Joanna Baillie”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
18
, No. 1, Jan. 2007, pp. 83-103.
90-1, 103

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