John Hunter brass plaque
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# John Hunter's Leicester Square Standing beneath this brass plaque in the heart of Leicester Square, you're positioned at the very nucleus of John Hunter's revolutionary work—the house where he accumulated his staggering collection of 10,500 anatomical specimens, transforming a private London resi...
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John Hunter bust, Leicester Square
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John Hunter, 13 February 1728 - 16 October 1793, Pioneer Anatomist and Surgeon. John Hunter was born in East Kilbride, Scotland in 1728. After an unremarkable childhood, he journeyed south to London to work as a disector {sic} for his brother William, a teacher of anatomy. He studied surgery at Chelsea and St. Bartholemew's {sic} Hospital. His interest in the subject grew to such an extent that he formed a collection of 10,500 anatomical specimens, initially accommodated in his house in Leicester Square. He has been called the founder of scientific surgery. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1767. The bust is by Thomas Woolner (1874).