dec 22, 1776 - John Hunter

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Hunter began his career at anatomy school and then became an army surgeon.
He was an anatomist who made very detailed models of the human body's anatomy and was considered an expert of dentistry and on venereal diseases (1786) and was often the subject of a myth that he accidentally gave himself gonorrhoea and syphilis while trying to prove that they were the same disease.
His work was very public and his books and teachings about the scientific method influenced many surgeons of the time - especially his student Edward Jenner.

In 1785 he developed a new method to avoid amputation by restricting blood flow to avoid an aneurysm, saving the man's leg without amputation
He was George III's surgeon in 1776 and became surgeon-general to the army in 1790

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