Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (1975)
vol
57
Letters from the past From John Hunter to Edward Jenner
A y _~ ~ ~ ~A J/~~~~v
*
L 4v/
sMa-
Dear Jenner I thank you for the trouble you have taken. I do not see another experiment to be made with Hedge Hogs but one. Get a piece of meat into the stomach of one in the very cold weather and kill him 24 hours after to see if it is digested which I have done with Lizzards. This may be difficult. but suppose he was made lively in a warm room and then fed and put out into the cold immediately with a little Hay over him If this does, two or three may be served in the same way and kill them at different distances, respecting time. observe their breathing when in the cold, if possible the quickness of the pulse and the fluid: of the blood. If you should chance to get more than you can use. I would take a few to put into my garden, to walk about in the evenings. Is there no chance to see you in London this winter do come and see us. I shall send you a paper of mine upon the Free Martin, also one to Ludlow. I wrote to him in answer to his letter. I hope he rec'd it. If a good deal of that air of the Hogs gutts could be collected to see if a candle will burn in it as long as in common air. I had a letter from Mr. Cheston giving me an account of an ossified Thoracic Duct. I wish he would let me have it. you see how greedy I am. you will hear from me soon. Ever yours JOHN HUNTER According to Mr LcFanu (Biobibliography of Edward Jenner, London, Harvey and Blythe, 1951) the paper on the Free Martin (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, I779, 69, 279) was probably stimulated by Jenner: 'I was the first who made the fact known some thirty years ago to Mr Hunter' (letter to Richard Worthington i8io).
vol
57
Letters from the past From John Hunter to Edward Jenner
A y _~ ~ ~ ~A J/~~~~v
*
L 4v/
sMa-
Dear Jenner I thank you for the trouble you have taken. I do not see another experiment to be made with Hedge Hogs but one. Get a piece of meat into the stomach of one in the very cold weather and kill him 24 hours after to see if it is digested which I have done with Lizzards. This may be difficult. but suppose he was made lively in a warm room and then fed and put out into the cold immediately with a little Hay over him If this does, two or three may be served in the same way and kill them at different distances, respecting time. observe their breathing when in the cold, if possible the quickness of the pulse and the fluid: of the blood. If you should chance to get more than you can use. I would take a few to put into my garden, to walk about in the evenings. Is there no chance to see you in London this winter do come and see us. I shall send you a paper of mine upon the Free Martin, also one to Ludlow. I wrote to him in answer to his letter. I hope he rec'd it. If a good deal of that air of the Hogs gutts could be collected to see if a candle will burn in it as long as in common air. I had a letter from Mr. Cheston giving me an account of an ossified Thoracic Duct. I wish he would let me have it. you see how greedy I am. you will hear from me soon. Ever yours JOHN HUNTER According to Mr LcFanu (Biobibliography of Edward Jenner, London, Harvey and Blythe, 1951) the paper on the Free Martin (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, I779, 69, 279) was probably stimulated by Jenner: 'I was the first who made the fact known some thirty years ago to Mr Hunter' (letter to Richard Worthington i8io).
