Letter from Thomas Young to John Hunter, with Hunter's holograph replies
- Young, Thomas (c.1750-1812)
- Date:
- 1790
- Reference:
- MS.8007/90
- Part of:
- Miscellany: British, mainly 19th-20th centuries
- Archives and manuscripts
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1790
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Deposited by the Hunterian Society, January 2013, having been purchased by the Society at auction.
Biographical note
Thomas Young was a respected London surgeon and anatomist who began practising in the 1770s. He was involved in a bodysnatching court case in 1785, but escaped punishment for receiving a stolen body. He died in 1812, and was the father of the actor Charles mayne Young.
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- 1971