William Hunter (anatomist)
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William Hunter (May 23rd 1718 - March 30th 1783) is a anatomist and Scottish Médecin .
He is born with East Kilbride in the South Lanarkshire, older brother of John Hunter. After the Université of Glasgow it comes to medicine in 1737 while studying with William Cullen. It begins the Anatomie with the St George' S Hospital from London and specializes in the Obstétrique.
In 1764 he becomes the doctor of the queen Charlotte. He is elected member of the Royal Society in 1767 and professor of anatomy to the Royal Academy in 1768. To help with the teaching of the Dissection it urges the sculptor Agostino Carlini to make sculptures of the sectional views of a criminal recently carried out, a smuggler.
Hunter is very interested by art and has many connections with the artistic world. He selected to illustrate his diagrams the drawings of Léonard de Vinci, Kenneth Clark regards Hunter as the person who allowed the redécouverte drawings of Léonard de Vinci the 18th century with the the United Kingdom.
In 1770 it completely builds a house equipped for the practice with the science which will form the core of the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery of the Université of Glasgow.
He dies in 1783 at the 64 years age and is buried with St James, Piccadilly with London.
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