from aadyer

An excellent biography of what has to be one of the greatest forces in English Medicine and worldwide surgery ever. An amazing story about how a boy from rural Scotland became the premier surgeon in London, during Hanoverian times. Absolutely superb, and very enlightening about other famous surge...

from TheAmpersand

A thoroughly readable, meticulously detailed biography of a crucial figure in the development of modern medicine who remains relatively unknown outside the medical profession. While Moore makes a strong case that Hunter's contributions to surgery, anatomy, biology, and paleontology were under-app...

from NielsenGW

In the middle of the 18th century, surgery was still a gruesome practice. Bloodletting and induced vomiting were standard procedures for all manners of ailments. But, like in all the sciences, one practitioner decided to upend convention and actually study the field from the ground up, asking bas...

from wealhtheowwylfing

John Hunter rose from a poor Scottish farming family to become one of the leading men of science and medicine. His courage (he inserted a knife's point covered in pus into his urethra to see if syphilis and gonorrhea were the same disease! omg!), his lack of hypocrisy (in an age when even surgeon...

from oldman

This was the story of John Hunter's life and career. He had a persistent curiosity in life and used his talents and life to answer these questions. In the process he brought the power of observation and experimentation into the practice of medicine, specifically surgery. Often his own worst enemy...