Author: Stephen Paget’s important work on the the leading surgeon and medical scientist of eighteen-century England.

Publisher: The Heirs of Hippocrates, Gryphon Editions (c. 1993) Facsimile

Format/Condition: New quarter-leather bound volume is in fine condition. No dust jacket as issued.

Description: John Hunter “is considered one of the greatest anatomists of all time and the founder of experimental pathology in England. Hunter put the practice of surgery on a scientific foundation and laid the framework for the twentieth century developments. His saying “Don’t think, try the experiment” has inspired generations of modern surgeons.”