1741 he went to London studying first under Dr. Smellie, then under Dr. Douglas, and attending St. George's Hospital as a pupil. In 1747 he became M.R.C.S., and began to practise, soon, however, confining himself almost entirely to midwifery, in which he was pre-eminent. He was appointed professor of anatomy to the Royal Academy upon its foundation in 1768. He collected a tine museum of anatomical preparations, shells, corals, and other objects of natural history, and some paintings, all of which was bequeathed to the university of Glasgow. Among his works are a History of an Aneurism of the Aorta, the Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus, and Two Introductory Lectures.
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Hunter, William, M.D. (1718-1783), brother of the above, was born in Lanarkshire, and for some time studied theology at Glasgow University, abandoning..this, however, later for medicine. Iu