John Hunter

They don't leave behind much written records, and it's hard to kind of get a sense of who was doing it.

Also, a lot of surgeons themselves, John Hunter himself, If you come to London and you go to the Hunterian Museum, he was an 18th century anatomist.

He dissected everything.

He's a really fascinating guy.

Well, it does actually get worse.

So in the late 1700s, a chap called John Hunter, he published a book about teeth that's hugely influential.

And it basically approached dentistry from a more scientific perspective for the first time.

Now, John Hunter's often regarded as the father of modern dentistry, but his books also gave rise to a pretty grim procedure, which is the transplanting of human teeth.

Oh, it gets worse.

That's horrific too.

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Chapter 3, The Tragedy of the Tudors, Henry VIII Never ask me, said John Hunter, what I have said or written, but ask me what my present opinions are, and I will tell you.

Know syphilis in all its manifestations and relations, and all other things clinical shall be added unto you.

Osler It is extraordinary what a popular aversion there seems to be to the idea that this man had syphilis, and that many of his actions were due to his syphilis.

You won't, yeah, yeah.

Uh, John Hunter will be explored later in the episode, but he would measure, uh, skull shapes.

Instead of HR, you should have phrenologists, basically.

This company should run, yeah.

and didn't make it back to base he was out in the sun he got hyperthermia and you can't you just can't override physiological limitations it simply can't be done as human beings we have to respect our physiology now of course dr mosley of all people knew this well so um hard to work out what he was thinking.

I suspect he did an early series on self-experimenters, when he looked at people that self-experimented on themselves, like John Hunter, who infected himself with an infected pus from a lady that he made his acquaintance with, and he infected himself with this pus locally, and he developed the signs of gonorrhea and syphilis.

And in Dr. Hunter's mind, he thought that was the same disease and that misconception carried on for some time.

But it made sense because gonorrhea developed quickly and then syphilis developed afterwards.

Among them was William Cowper, not a kinsman of the defendant, but the most celebrated anatomist that England had then produced.

He was, indeed, the founder of a dynasty illustrious in the history of science, for he was the teacher of William Cheselden, and William Cheselden was the teacher of John Hunter.

On the same side appeared Samuel Garth, who among the physicians of the capital had no rival except Radcliffe, and Hans Sloane, the founder of the magnificent museum which is one of the glories of our country.

The attempt of the prosecutors to make the superstitions of the forecastle evidence for the purpose of taking away the lives of men was treated by these philosophers with just disdain.