appointed attending surgeon to the Pennsylvania Hospital in 1863, finishing his term after a service of thirty years, having inaugurated in 1870 the plan of a six months continuous service. He was an incorporator of the Microscopical and Biological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences, and he helped to form the "Biological Club" and the "Surgical Club," where members met to display specimens and partake, at first, of such refreshments as crackers, cheese and ale, and later, regular dinners. He wrote a good deal, and was for many years on the staff of the Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences, and with Dr. T. G. Morton, compiled a "History of Surgery in the Pennsylvania Hospital." The "Pennsylvania Hospital Reports" were edited by him and Dr. J. M. DaCosta, and he did the same for Holmes's "System of Surgery" (the American edition), besides contributing to the "International Encyclopedia of Surgery."
But the writing, the operating and the pleasant entertaining of friends came to an end when he was severely injured by being run over, in 1887, and although he worked at intervals, the results of the accident ended in his death on April 17, 1896, at his home in Philadelphia.
Among his appointments may be noted: resident physician, Pennsylvania Hospital; demonstrator of anatomy, University of Pennsylvania; assistant surgeon, United States Army; Surgeon to the Orthopedic Hospital; fellow of the College of Physicians; president, Philadelphia Academy of Surgery; honorary fellow, American Surgical Association.
Among his writings are to be mentioned: "Clinical Notes and Reflections"; "Diabetic Gangrene"; "Ossification of the Crystalline Lens"; "The History of Toxemia"; "Unusual Surgical Cases"; "Traumatic Rupture of the Urethra"; "Surgery in the Pennsylvania Hospital, being an Epitome of the Hospital since 1756," Philadelphia, 1880.
Hunter, William (1729–1777).
William Hunter was born in 1729 in Scotland and educated under the elder Monro, at Edinburgh, afterwards studying with great assiduity, both at Edinburgh and Leyden.
He came to Rhode Island about 1752, gave lectures at Newport, on anatomy, on the history of anatomy, and comparative anatomy, during the years 1754–56, these being among the first lectures given on science in New England. He was soon appointed by the colony of Rhode Island, surgeon to the troops sent by them to Canada, and afterwards he returned to Newport. He married the daughter of Godfrey Malbone.
Independent of his lectures, his literary contributions in behalf of his profession were principally letters addressed to his London namesakes. He was a most eminently successful practitioner, as well as operator and obstetrician.
He was a very handsome man, his manners courtly and amiable, his opinions liberal. His medical library was the largest in New England at his day, and contained most of the standard Greek and Latin authors of antiquity, as well as the modern works of his own time. The latter were mostly dispersed by the accidents of the Revolutionary War; what remained of the former were distributed to individuals and medical institutions by his only son, the Hon. William Hunter.
According to the New York Medical Repository, his manuscript lectures were said still to be in existence.
He died at Newport in 1777.
Huntington, David Low (1834–1899).
David Low Huntington, army surgeon, graduated in arts at Yale (1855), in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1857. In 1862 he entered the regular army as assistant surgeon and served mostly in the West. He was medical officer on the staff of Gen. Grant, medical director of the army of the Tennessee, and accompanied Sherman on his famous march to the sea. Huntington was present in many battles of the war and rendered valuable service at Champion Hills, Vicksburg, Missionary Ridge, Resaca, Dallas and Kenesaw Mountain. After the war he was stationed at different army posts east and west, and from 1875 to 1880 was surgeon in charge of the Soldiers' Home at Washington, from 1880 to 1887, working in the surgeon-general's office. After the death of Otis, Huntington completed the remaining volumes of the well known "Medical and Surgical History of the War." The last volume was published in 1883. During the last years of his military service, Huntington was in charge of the Army Medical Museum and Library. After his retirement in 1898 he travelled in Europe for his health, when death suddenly overtook him at Rome, December 20, 1899.
