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John Hunter as an oral pathologist
1Harvard School of Dental Medicine, USA.
Abstract:
John Hunter was one of the great surgeons and anatomists of the eighteenth century and one of the greatest comparative anatomists of all time. His legacy was a museum of over 1300 specimens and anatomical preparations in the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in England, and a wealth of publications on a large variety of subjects, including two books on the teeth, gingival tissues, and their diseases.
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