"The other" John Hunter, M.D., F.R.S. (1754-1809): his contributions to the medical literature, and to the introduction of animal experiments into infectious disease research.

Abstract

In London in 1865, James Hunt’s Anthropological Society was getting into its stride. Among its early activities was the commissioning of translations of anthropological treatises from Latin, French and German originals; not unnaturally a beginning was made with the works of J. F. Blumenbach, regarded as a cornerstone in the development of modern anthropology (2). The translator and editor was Thomas Bendyshe, a Cambridge scholar (3) who decided to include in the volume a thesis which had earned, at Edinburgh in 1775, the same year that saw the publication of Blumenbach’s De generis humani varietate nativa , the degree of M.D. for one, John Hunter.