{"id":5840,"date":"2017-01-10T21:41:18","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T21:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/?p=6912"},"modified":"2017-01-10T21:41:18","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T21:41:18","slug":"john-hunter-history-of-the-human-teeth-january-2017-notes-from-the-john-martin-rare-book-room-hardin-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2017\/01\/10\/john-hunter-history-of-the-human-teeth-january-2017-notes-from-the-john-martin-rare-book-room-hardin-library\/","title":{"rendered":"John Hunter | History of the Human Teeth | January 2017 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2017\/01\/johnhunter-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"John Hunter. 1813 painting by John Jackson\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2017\/01\/johnhunter-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2017\/01\/johnhunter-36x36.jpg 36w, http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2017\/01\/johnhunter-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6914 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2017\/01\/hunterteeth-227x300.png\" alt=\"hunterteeth\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2017\/01\/hunterteeth-227x300.png 227w, http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2017\/01\/hunterteeth.png 715w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6913\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6913 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2017\/01\/johnhunter-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"John Hunter. 1813 painting by John Jackson\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2017\/01\/johnhunter-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2017\/01\/johnhunter-36x36.jpg 36w, http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2017\/01\/johnhunter-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Hunter in an 1813 painting by John Jackson<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>JOHN HUNTER (1728-1793).\u00a0<em>The natural history of the human teeth<\/em>.\u00a0London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1771.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Hunter_(surgeon)\">John Hunter <\/a>was an anatomist and surgeon, practicing in London. His tireless energy helped him to overcome whatever obstacles his educational and cultural lacks may have provided. &#8220;Hunter remains one of the great all-round biologists like Haller and Johannes M\u00fcller, and with Par\u00e9 and Lister, one of the three greatest surgeons of all time. . . . Hunter found surgery a mechanical art and left it an experimental science&#8221; (Fielding H. Garrison).<\/p>\n<p>One of Hunter&#8217;s most important works was this treatise on the teeth. This book was the first scientific study of the teeth and is basic to all modern dentistry.<\/p>\n<p>You may view this book in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/rbr\/\">John Martin Rare Book Room, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences<\/a>. Make a gift to the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.givetoiowa.org\/GiveToIowa\/WebObjects\/GiveToIowa.woa\/wa\/goTo?area=libraries\">donating online or setting up a recurring gift<\/a> with The University of Iowa Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2017\/01\/johnhunter-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"John Hunter. 1813 painting by John Jackson\">JOHN HUNTER (1728-1793).&nbsp;The natural history of the human teeth.&nbsp;London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1771. John Hunter was an anatomist and surgeon, practicing in London. His tireless energy helped him to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5854,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5840\/revisions\/5854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}