Excerpt from The Hunterian Oration on British Military Surgery in the Time of Hunter and in the Great War: Delivered Before the Royal College of Surgeons of England on February 14th, 1919, the Anniversary of Hunter"s Birth
This dedication is dated "Leicester Square, May 20th, 1792," although Guthrie states that "the work was not published until 1794" - i. e. the year after Hunter"s death; but in spite of the fact that more than thirty years had passed since the period of Hunter"s active service before he published his treatise, yet his interest in what he had seen at Belleisle remained so keen and his description of individual cases is so vivid that it might easily be supposed he was describing events of very recent occurrence. The whole "Treatise" is quite short, and occupies only 56 pages in the octavo edition of 1828.
In the "Roll of Commissioned Officers in the Medical Service of the British Army," by the late Colonel William Johnston, C.B., and published in 1917, Hunter"s record reads as follows:
"John Hunter, Surgical Staff, Great Britain, 30th October, 1760. Half pay, 1764. Full pay, Assist. Surgeon General, 4th January, 1786. Surgeon General and Inspector of Regimental Hospitals, 17th March, 1790. Died October, 1793. Belleisle, 1761. Portugal, 1762."
An interesting fact which is not commonly known is supplied in this brief statement, for it appears that Hunter had acted as "Assistant Surgeon-General" for four years before his appointment as Surgeon-General.
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