John Hunter (physician)

It was republished in an English translation by Thomas Bendyshe in 1865 with Johann Friedrich Blumenbach's treatises in the same area, in the publications of the Anthropological Society.

[2][3][4] In 1787 Hunter contributed to the third volume of the Medical Transactions published by the College of Physicians three papers: one on the occurrence of typhus fever in the houses of the poor in London; another on morbid anatomy, and a third on the cause of the "dry belly-ache" of the tropics.

In the last of these the discovery made by Baker two years earlier, that lead poisoning in cider was the cause of "Devonshire colic", was extended by Hunter to rum which had been distilled through a leaden worm, observations of Benjamin Franklin's being adduced in proof.

It gives an amplified account of the "dry belly-ache", and deals with yellow fever and other diseases of the troops, as well as more briefly with some other Caribbean maladies.

[2] Hunter contributed to the Philosophical Transactions in 1788 a paper on Jamaican wells and springs, a subject suggested by Henry Cavendish.