Hunterian Institute

Hunterian Lectures on Hernia

Specimens from the Hunterian Collection.

Four Hunterian Lectures and Bristol–1990

In 1990 Bristol had the signal honour and distinction of being associated with four Hunterian Professors and their lectures. Mr Clarke was a graduate of Bristol University and carried out his research work in the University of Bristol. Mr Miller and Mr Scott carried out their research in Bristol and are currently Senior Registrars on the South West rotation. Mr Nicholson carried out his researc...

History of the Trustees of the Hunterian Collection

A Catalogue ofPrinted Books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library. II-Books printed from 1641 to 1850 A-E, London, The Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1966, pp. xi, 540, £10 10s. The second part of the Wellcome Catalogue of Printed Books, of which this volume is the first instalment, covers a period much less fully explored by bibliographers and historians than the first volume which ...

Owen's Hunterian Lectures on Comparative Anatomy and Physiology,

In recent years, historians of biology have drawn attention to the fact that during the period 1830-59-the three decades before the publication of Darwin's Origin of species-a major change took place in biological thought in England. Teleological explanations of the Cuvierian and Paleyan kind were amended, if not entirely supplanted, by a mixture of idealist and transcendentalist philosophies. ...