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Hunter, William (sh)




born May 23, 1718, Long Calderwood, Lanarkshire, Scot.
died March 30, 1783, London, Eng.

British obstetrician, educator, and medical writer.

The brother of John Hunter, he studied medicine at the University of Glasgow and became a licensed physician in London in 1756. He introduced the French practice of providing individual medical students with cadavers for dissection to Britain. After 1756 his medical practice was devoted principally to obstetrics; he became the most successful specialist of his day and was made physician extraordinary to Queen Charlotte in 1762. His work did much to remove obstetrics from the purview of midwives and establish it as an accepted branch of medicine.