This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ...dispute with his brother as to priority), which is contained in his collected Works.1 A critique upon it is added by Professor Owen, dealing with Dr. Lee's opinions in opposition to the Hunters'doctrine, and relating experiments of his own which confirm it. Dr. Horrocks, in the Hunterian Society's Oration for 1898, quotes W. Hunter's description of the Placenta, and places it side by side with the most recent exposition of its anatomy by Leopold of Dresden, showing their agreement in essential features. The dispute between the brothers arose, if we are to believe Jesse Foot, about a morbid specimen which John invited William to see, and which William carried off for his Museum. But perhaps there was never a work of more singular scandal and malignity than Foot's "Life of John Hunter," published under the cloak of an honourable love of truth, and pursuing its victim in his new-made grave. "John Hunter," he says, "never was the author of any production which appeared under his name" Smollett wrote them for him. His plate of the Placenta "gives just as good an idea of the country in the moon as it does of that which it is intended to explain: --it will serve for either." 2 W. Hunter's paper On the Uncertainty of the signs of Murder in the case of Bastard Children, alluded to on page 23, long occupied an important place in the field of Legal 1 Ed. Palmer, vol. iv. p. 60. See above, pp. 13, 17. 3 Foot, Life of John Hunter, pp. 62, 222. Foot's illwill may have been in part an expression of that prejudice against the Hunters as Scotchmen, which accordiug to Agnes Balllie was very rife in their lifetime and afterwards. See ber notes on the Pedigree of the Hunters, Hunter-Baillie MSS. Compare Horace...