ISBN: 9781130664454

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RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 1086 pages. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: . . . the board meeting. There the interruption of his remarks in behalf of his applicants by a flat contradiction from a colleague brought on one of the old spasmodic heart attacks; he ceased speaking, and retired. into an adjoining room only in time to fall lifeless into the arms of Dr Robertson, one of the hospital physicians. After an hour had been spent in vain attempts to restore animation, his body was conveyed to his house in a sedan chair. 1 Thus, in his sixty-fifth year, and in the height of 1 The record or Hunters death in the St James Chronicle for October 15-17, 1793, p. 4, col. 4, -makes no allusion to the immediate cause of Hunters death, but gives the following statement: --Jons Hunter. --This eminent Surgeon and valuable man waa his mental activity, died John Hunter, whose range of thought nature alone could fill and to whom, as to but few among all mankind, had been given wisdom to interpret the dark Bayings of nature. His remains were interred privately on October 22, 1793, in the vaults of St Martins in the Fields. Thence, on March 28, 1859, through the instrumentality of Mr Frank Buckland, they were removed to Abbot Islips chapel in Westminster Abbey, to be finally deposited in the grave in the north aisle of the nave, clone to the resting-place of Ben Jouson. Hunter was of about medium height, strongly built, and highshouldered and short-necked. He had an open-countenance, and large features, eyes light-blue or grey, eyebrowB prominent, and hair reddiah-yellow in youth, later white, and worn curled behind; and he dressed plainly and neatly. He rose at or before six, dissected till nine (his breakfast hour), received patients from halfpast nine till twelve, it least during the latter part of his life, and saw his outdoor and hospital . . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<