Author:William Hunter

William Hunter
(1718–1783)

William Hunter

Works

• 'Medical Commentaries; Part I. Containing a Plain … Answer to Professor Monro, jun., interspersed with Remarks on the Structure, Functions, and Diseases of the Human Body (1762-4) 2 pts
• 'Anatomia Uteri humani gravidi Tabulis illustrata,' (1774)
• 'Two Introductory Lectures delivered by W. H. to his last course of Anatomical Lectures. To which are added some Papers relating to Dr.Hunter's intended Plan for establishing a Museum in London for the Improvement of Anatomy,' (1784)
• 'An Anatomical Description of the Human Gravid Uterus and its Contents,' (1794)

'Medical Observations and Inquiries'

• 'On Aneurysm' (vols. i. ii. iv.),
• 'On Diseases of the Cellular Membrane' (ii.),
• 'On the Symphysis Pubis' (ii.),
• 'On Retroverted Uterus' (iv. v. vi.)
• 'On the Uncertainty of the Signs of Murder in the case of Bastard Children' (vi.)

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society

• "Of the structure and diseases of articulating cartilages" in Philosophical Transactions, 42, pp. 514–521
• "Observations on the bones, commonly supposed to be elephants bones, which have been found near the river Ohio in America" in Philosophical Transactions, 58, pp. 34–45
• "An Account of the Lymphatic System in Birds; By Mr. William Hewson, Reader in Anatomy: In a Letter to William Hunter, M. D. F. R. S. and by Him Communicated to the Society" in Philosophical Transactions, 58, pp. 217–226
• "An account of the Nyl-ghau, an Indian animal, not hitherto described" in Philosophical Transactions, 61, pp. 170–181

Works about Hunter

• "Hunter, William (1718-1783)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Hunter, William," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)