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 224 BRITISH PHYSICIANS. acknowledges that, in most of the dissections, he had been assisted by his brother, John Hunter. In this work were first delineated the retroversion of the uterus and the memhrana decidua reflexa, for the discovery of which we are indebted to the subject of our memoir. The famous engraver, Strange, was an intimate friend of the author, and did two of the plates ; some of the other engravings are also remarkable for elegance of execution. Hunter did not live to pubhsh a work designed to illustrate the engravings, and de- scriptive of the anatomy, of the gravid uterus ; but he left very ample collections towards it, which were edited from his manuscripts, in 1795, by Dr. Baillie, in the form of a thin volume in quarto. Two Introductory Lectures to his Course of Anatomy were also published, from the papers found at his death. He had been employed for some time in col- lecting materials for another important work on the history of the various concretions which are formed in the human body : the portion relative to urinary and biliary concretions appears to have been almost completed. Many beautiful engrav- ings, intended to accompany this book, were finished at the time of his decease. About ten years before his end his health was so much impaired, that, fearing he might soon become unfit for the profession which he loved, he proposed to recruit himself by a residence in Scot- land, and was on the eve of purchasing a consi- derable estate, when the project was frustrated by a defect in the title-deeds. This trifle banished his rural plans, and he remained in London, con-