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By Wendy Moore. 341 pp. New York, Broadway Books, 2005. $26. ISBN 0-7679-1652-2.

John Hunter is rightly regarded as the founder of scientific surgery, but he has long been a lightning rod for controversy, within his own lifetime and even today. In this new biography, Wendy Moore brings Hunter to life in all his flawed, combustible glory.

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View larger version (67K): [in this window] [in a new window]   John Hunter. Oil portrait after Sir Joshua Reynolds. Wellcome Library, London.

 
As a young man, Hunter left the hardscrabble Scottish Lowlands to join his doctor brother William in 18th-century London, eventually becoming the most famous physician in England. Hunter, blessed and cursed by an insatiable natural curiosity, made enormous contributions to anatomy and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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