🇬🇧John Hunter
2 oddlets about John Hunter
The Man Who Died in a Meeting
He kept leopards in his London garden and cadavers coming through the back door. He grafted a human tooth onto a rooster's comb to see what would happen. It grew. His motto: "Why think? Why not try the experiment?" John Hunter — the man who turned surgery into a science, killed by a committee meeting.
The Surgeon Who Tried the Experiment
He kept leopards, jackals, ostriches, and a zebra on his estate. When two leopards escaped and attacked his dogs, he seized both animals barehanded. He dissected over two thousand bodies, performed the first recorded artificial insemination, and built a museum of nearly fourteen thousand specimens. His name was John Hunter — the father of scientific surgery, whose most celebrated experiment had a sample size of one and a contaminated sample.