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.
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