John Hunter self experimentation.edited 05.03.21

John Hunter Self-experimentation Name Institutional affiliations Date Introduction Section 1: Introduction Outline Personal Background details of John Hunter Educational background, including the periods Career background of John Hunter The happenings at that time and the people’s beliefs at that time John Hunter’s contribution to medicine and science Born in 1728 in Kilbride East, Scotland as the youngest child in a family of ten, his father died when he was young and was left under the care of his mother upon where at the age of 17, he moved to London to study under his elder brother William Hunter, who was an anatomist and obstetrician at that time (Wright, 1981). Around 1748, he learned anatomy by assisting his elder brother with dissections in anatomy school, where William worked when he later worked in the army as a dentist and James Spence vaccine (Kaya and Sindel, 2016). In 1764, he managed to set up his anatomy school where he built up a collection of living animals with which he used as anatomy specimens, upon wherein 1767, he became a fellow of the royal society and was elected to the American philosophical society in 1787 vaccine (Kaya and Sindel, 2016). Around this time, venereal diseases were considered to be divine punishments and the ancient doctors, physicians, and surgeons wrote about diseases of the genitalia whereby chancres, vaginal discharge, pustules, condylomata and urethra discharge were described in conjunction with their treatment (Gruber, Lipozenčić and Kehler, 2015) In 1767, the royal society elected Hunter to lead venereal disease research since the medics believed that gonorrhoea was an early stage of syphilis and therefore argued that if physicians treated gonorrhoea infections, people would not contact syphilis (Brandes and Ferguson, 2012). Hunter further infected himself with gonorrhoea for research purposes, and through the findings; he concluded that the two were not different entities but same disease in advanc