A treatise on the blood, inflammation, and gun-shot wounds / by the late John Hunter. To which is prefixed, A short account of the author's life, by his brother-in-law, Everard Home.

  • Hunter, John, 1728-1793.
Date:
1794
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Credit: A treatise on the blood, inflammation, and gun-shot wounds / by the late John Hunter. To which is prefixed, A short account of the author's life, by his brother-in-law, Everard Home. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    [iii] TO THE KING. MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY, In the year 1761, I had the honour of being appointed by your Majesty a surgeon on the staff in the expedition against Bellisle. In the year 1790, your Majesty honoured me with one of the most important appointments in the medical department of the army, in fulfilling the duties of which every exertion shall be called forth to render me deserving of the trust reposed in me, and not unworthy of your Majesty's pa- tronage. The first of these appointments gave me ex- tensive opportunities of attending to gun-shot wounds, of seeing the errors and defects in that branch of military surgery, and of studying to re-