1. Aberdeen Journal (1794), quoted in Jessie Dobson, ‘John Hunter and the Unfortunate Doctor Dodd’, Journal of the History of Medicine, 10 (1955), 369–78 (pp. 373–4).
2. See Wendy Moore, The Knife Man: Blood, Body-Snatching and the Birth of Modern Surgery (London: Bantam, 2005), pp. 240–2.
3. William Hunter, Two Introductory Lectures, Delivered by Dr. William Hunter, to his Last Course of Anatomical Lectures, at his Theatre in Windmill Street (London, 1784), pp. 81, 96.
4. John Hunter, Treatise on the Blood, Inflammation, and Gunshot Wounds (London, 1794), p. 78.
5. John Hunter, ‘Proposals for the Recovery of People Apparently Drowned’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 66 (1776), 412–25.