HUNTER, JOHN (1728-1793), i. 123, 124, 127, 131; birth and early years, 133; visit to Glasgow, 133; goes to London and assists his brother, 134; his hospital studies, 134; short residence at Oxford, 135; shares his brother’s lectures, 135; his style of lecturing, 136; early discoveries, 136; dissection of animals, 137; becomes staff-surgeon in army, and goes to Belleisle and Portugal, 137; returns home and practises in Golden Square, 138; want of tact, 138; his brusqueness, 139; builds a house at Earl’s Court, and keeps a private menagerie, 139; his encounter with leopards, 139; ruptures his _tendo Achillis_, and studies mode of cure, 140; elected Fellow of Royal Society, and surgeon to St. George’s Hospital, 140; takes a house in Jermyn Street, and receives Jenner as pupil, 141; marries Miss Home, 141; his dislike of fashionable parties, 141; writes on the Teeth, and on digestion of stomach after death, 142; his principal contributions to the Royal Society, 142, 143; his indefatigable industry, 143; punctuality and order, 144; blunt hospitality, 144; employs an artist named Bell, 144, 145; lectures on surgery, 145; after-dinner habits, 146, 147; appointed surgeon to the King, 147; Croonian lectures, 148; suffers from angina pectoris, 148; visit to Bath, 148; emotion at his brother’s death, 149; his eagerness for specimens, 150; obtains skeleton of O’Brien, the Irish giant, 150; evidence on murder of Sir T. Boughton, 150; Justice Buller’s strictures, 151; builds museum in Leicester Square, 151; renewed illness, 152; portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 153; ties femoral artery, 153; experiments on deer’s antlers, 153; appointed surgeon-general to the army, 154; Copley medal awarded, 154; Home assists him, 154; Hunter writes treatise on Blood, Inflammation, &c., 155; dispute with hospital governors and surgeons, 155-157; aid to young students, 155; discussion at board meeting, and sudden death, 157; personal appearance, 158; national vote for his museum, 158; declined by Physicians, accepted by Surgeons, 158; Home and Hunter’s papers, 159; Home burns them, 160; Hunter the Cerberus of the Royal Society, 161; his generosity, 162; his income, 162; his sense of his own importance, 162; religious views, 162; removal of remains to Westminster Abbey, 163; views on life, 163, 164; Dr. Moxon on, 165; Sir James Paget on, 166-168; Abernethy on, 168; Clift on, 168; and Edward Jenner, 170, 171, 176; and Cline, 203; and Astley Cooper, 204, 205; and Abernethy, 228, 241; and Baillie, ii. 53; and ovariotomy, 106.