Hunter, John, anatomist and surgeon, born near East Kilbride, Lanarkshire; started practice as a surgeon in London, became surgeon to St. George's Hospital, and at length surgeon to the king; is distinguished for his operations in the cure of aneurism; he built a museum, in which he collected an immense number of specimens illustrative of subjects of medical study, which, after his death, was purchased by Government (1728‒1793).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Hunt, Leigh * Hunter, Sir William