[29] Cf. J. H. Green, Hunt. Orat., 1840, p. 27.
[30] Abernethy, Physiological Lectures, p. 11 (1817).
[31] Instituted in 1806.
[32] Increased to seventeen in 1856.
[33] How clearly he held this view is seen in his remark (Treatise on the Blood, p. 28, cf. p. 46) that, as the coagulating lymph of the blood is probably common to all animals, whereas the red corpuscles are not, we must suppose the lymph to be the essential part of that fluid. Hunter was the first to discover that the blood of the embryos of red-blooded animals is at first colourless, resembling that of invertebrates. (See Owen, Preface to vol. iv. of Works, p. xiii.)
[34] Treatise on the Blood, p. 63.
[35] Essays and Observations, i. 113.
[36] Treatise on the Blood, p. 89.
[37] Ib. p. 90.
[38] P. P. Staple, with the loan of whose volume of MS. notes of Hunter’s “Chirurgical Lectures,” dated, on the last page, Sept. 20th, 1787, the writer was favoured by Sir W. H. Broadbent.