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Dr. John Hunter, The Late Justly Celebrated Anatomist.
DR . JOHN HUNTER , THE LATE JUSTLY CELEBRATED ANATOMIST .
T" HIS excellent man is now no more . He died on Wednesday die 16 th hist , to the infinite grief of his relatives and friends , and the . general Joss of mankind . These expirations have more than cisintnou solemnity when the Great Physician orders even those away whom he has gifted to restore from the confines of the grave .
But Hunter must be regarded in a variety of li ghts as an irreparable loss- He did not merely uphold , the honour of his art—the integrity of private life—the character of a Briton- - —but he gave to his Country the fame of the best Anatomist in the Nations of Europe . Of the original strength ofmind surmounting the petty obstacles
of fortune and situation , Hunter was an admirable example . Hs was , as he never sought to disguise , once a . carpenter by profession , find , npon particular occasions , was fond to display that he had not forgotten his craft . When his brother with such rapid strides advanced to fame and fortunethe encitement operated effectually upon John Hunter—h «
, came tip to town , and assisted him in those lectures npon Anatomy , which most people recollect to have been given in Windmill-street . Nature had done her part in framing him for the fatigues he courted—His strength of body was correspondent to the vigour of his mind—His search was incessant , and he was easy under the
pressure of business that weaker mortals would term insupportable toil . Inspired by a thorough conviction of the dignity and importance of his art , he loved it with distinguishing preference—What he read , was either directly or collaterally allied to it—As a Naturalist , he applied all his discoveries to anatomical use . His collections have taken away the bulk of his fortune . —Yet he lived with
hospitable splendour , and had a country house at Earl ' s Court . His domestic life was exemplary—he married the daughter of Home , the Physician ; she has given him a son and daughter , who with her now have to mourn the deepest of calamities . Of honours he was not solicitous , but such as his profession usuall y leads to be enjoyed : —He was Doctor of Physic , and F . R . S .
Assistant Surgeon to the King , and he was . appointed to St . George ' s Hospital , where his care was incessant . ' For some time back hishealth had suffered—most probably from the _ contamination of disorders around him perpetually ; yet he desisted not from practice—he devoted himself to healing others , and died a Martyr to Mankind—for he attended on his last day a consultation upon a difficult case , was seized at the Hospital with a spasmodic affection in the stomach , went home , sfid expired in x few hours after the attack .
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Dr. John Hunter, The Late Justly Celebrated Anatomist.
DR . JOHN HUNTER , THE LATE JUSTLY CELEBRATED ANATOMIST .
T" HIS excellent man is now no more . He died on Wednesday die 16 th hist , to the infinite grief of his relatives and friends , and the . general Joss of mankind . These expirations have more than cisintnou solemnity when the Great Physician orders even those away whom he has gifted to restore from the confines of the grave .
But Hunter must be regarded in a variety of li ghts as an irreparable loss- He did not merely uphold , the honour of his art—the integrity of private life—the character of a Briton- - —but he gave to his Country the fame of the best Anatomist in the Nations of Europe . Of the original strength ofmind surmounting the petty obstacles
of fortune and situation , Hunter was an admirable example . Hs was , as he never sought to disguise , once a . carpenter by profession , find , npon particular occasions , was fond to display that he had not forgotten his craft . When his brother with such rapid strides advanced to fame and fortunethe encitement operated effectually upon John Hunter—h «
, came tip to town , and assisted him in those lectures npon Anatomy , which most people recollect to have been given in Windmill-street . Nature had done her part in framing him for the fatigues he courted—His strength of body was correspondent to the vigour of his mind—His search was incessant , and he was easy under the
pressure of business that weaker mortals would term insupportable toil . Inspired by a thorough conviction of the dignity and importance of his art , he loved it with distinguishing preference—What he read , was either directly or collaterally allied to it—As a Naturalist , he applied all his discoveries to anatomical use . His collections have taken away the bulk of his fortune . —Yet he lived with
hospitable splendour , and had a country house at Earl ' s Court . His domestic life was exemplary—he married the daughter of Home , the Physician ; she has given him a son and daughter , who with her now have to mourn the deepest of calamities . Of honours he was not solicitous , but such as his profession usuall y leads to be enjoyed : —He was Doctor of Physic , and F . R . S .
Assistant Surgeon to the King , and he was . appointed to St . George ' s Hospital , where his care was incessant . ' For some time back hishealth had suffered—most probably from the _ contamination of disorders around him perpetually ; yet he desisted not from practice—he devoted himself to healing others , and died a Martyr to Mankind—for he attended on his last day a consultation upon a difficult case , was seized at the Hospital with a spasmodic affection in the stomach , went home , sfid expired in x few hours after the attack .