Editing John Hunter (surgeon) (section)

==Legacy==

In 1799, the government purchased Hunter's collection of papers and specimens, which it presented to the Company of Surgeons.

===Contributions to medicine===
Hunter helped to improve understanding of human teeth, bone growth and remodelling, [[inflammation]], gunshot wounds, [[venereal diseases]], [[digestion]], the functioning of the [[lacteals]], child development, the separateness of maternal and foetal blood supplies, and the role of the [[lymphatic system]]. He carried out the first recorded [[artificial insemination]] in 1790 on a linen draper's wife.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1958/feb/26/artificial-insemination-of-married-women|title=ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION OF MARRIED WOMEN (Hansard, 26 February 1958)|website=api.parliament.uk|access-date=2 March 2020}}</ref> The [[adductor canal]] in the thigh is also known by its eponym "Hunter's canal" after John Hunter.<ref>{{WhoNamedIt|synd|105}}</ref><ref name="titleCHAPTER 15: THE THIGH AND KNEE">{{cite web |url=http://www.dartmouth.edu/~humananatomy/part_3/chapter_15.html#chpt_15_adductor_canal |title=CHAPTER 15: THE THIGH AND KNEE |access-date=2008-01-27 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080121162834/http://www.dartmouth.edu/~humananatomy/part_3/chapter_15.html| archive-date= 21 January 2008 | url-status= live}}</ref>

===Literary references===
[[File:Bust of John Hunter, Leicester Square (2206660627).jpg|thumb|upright|A bust of Hunter near where he lived in [[Leicester Square]], London]]

[[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]], a key figure in [[Romanticism|Romantic]] thought, science, and medicine, saw in Hunter's work the seeds of [[Romantic medicine]], namely as regards his principle of life, which he felt had come from the mind of genius.

{{blockquote|WHEN we stand before the bust of John Hunter, or as we enter the magnificent museum furnished by his labours, and pass slowly, with meditative observation through this august temple, which the genius of one great man has raised and dedicated to the wisdom and uniform working of the Creator, we perceive at every step the guidance, we had almost said, the inspiration, of those profound ideas concerning Life, which dawn upon us, indeed, through his written works, but which he has here presented to us in a more perfect language than that of words – the language of God himself, as uttered by Nature. That the true idea of Life existed in the mind of John Hunter I do not entertain the least doubt...|Coleridge<ref name="Theory of Life">[[s:Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life]]{{page needed|date=August 2016}}</ref>}}

Hunter was the basis for the character Jack Tearguts in [[William Blake]]'s 1784 unfinished satirical novel, ''[[An Island in the Moon]]''.<ref>[[S. Foster Damon|Damon, S. Foster]]. ''A Blake Dictionary: The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake'' (Hanover: Brown University Press 1988; revised ed. 1988){{page needed|date=August 2016}}</ref> He is a principal character in [[Hilary Mantel]]'s 1998 novel, ''[[The Giant, O'Brien]]''. Hunter is mentioned by Dr Moreau in Chapter XIV of [[H. G. Wells]]'s ''The Island of Doctor Moreau'' (1896). He appears in the play ''[[Mr Foote's Other Leg (play)|Mr Foote's Other Leg]]'' (2015) as a friend of the actor [[Samuel Foote]].

In [[Imogen Robertson]]'s 2009 novel, ''Instruments of Darkness'', anatomist Gabriel Crowther advises an acquaintance to seek refuge at his friend Hunter's home for the young Earl of Sussex's party from deadly pursuers released during the [[Gordon Riots]]; leopards in Hunter's [[menagerie]] killed the would-be assassins, and he envisaged their bodies' dissection.<ref>{{cite book|last=Robertson|first=Imogen|title=Instruments of Darkness|publisher=Headline Publishing Group|year=2009}}</ref> In [[Jessie Greengrass]]'s novel, ''Sight'', she intercuts her story with the biography of Hunter and other scientists who have dedicated their lives to analysing light and transparency.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hulbert|first=Ann|date=3 August 2018|title='Sight' Is an Unusual Novel About Motherhood That's Hard to Put Down|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/09/jesse-greengrass-sight-review/565766/|access-date=9 March 2021|website=The Atlantic}}</ref>

His Leicester Square house is said to have been the inspiration for the home of [[Dr Jekyll]] of [[Robert Louis Stevenson]]'s 1886 novel ''[[The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde]]''.<ref>Moore, p. 430, citing ''The Sketch'' of 24 February 1897, which related that Stevenson 'is said to have chosen' Hunter's house as his inspiration.</ref>

=== Memorials ===
The John Hunter Clinic of the [[Chelsea and Westminster Hospital]] in London is named after him,<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.chelwest.nhs.uk/services/hiv-sexual-health/clinics/john-hunter-clinic-for-sexual-health |title = John Hunter Clinic |access-date = 19 January 2014 }}</ref> as are the [[John Hunter Hospital]] in Newcastle, Australia and the Hunterian Neurosurgical Laboratory of the Johns Hopkins Hospital.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sampath |first1=Prakash |last2=Long |first2=Donlin M. |last3=Brem |first3=Henry |title=The Hunterian Neurosurgical Laboratory: the first 100 years of neurosurgical research |journal=Neurosurgery |volume=46 |issue=1 |pages=184–94; discussion 194–5 |year=2000 |pmid=10626949 |doi=10.1093/neurosurgery/46.1.184 }}</ref>

His birthplace in Long Calderwood, Scotland, has been preserved as [[Hunter House Museum]].<ref>Moore, pp.&nbsp;546–7.</ref>

There had been a [[Bust (sculpture)|bust]] of Hunter in Leicester Square until the 2010–12 redesign of the square.<ref>{{Cite web|title=John Hunter, Leicester Square|url=https://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/john-hunter-leicester-square/|access-date=16 November 2020|website=London Remembers}}</ref>