William Hunter
1718–83
Physician, anatomist, and man-midwife. His dissection of a full-term gravid uterus allowed him to determine the relationship between the maternal and foetal blood systems in the placenta. First professor of anatomy, Royal Academy, 1768. FRS 1767.
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ODNB
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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