title: John Hunter as an oral pathologist.
abstract: John Hunter was one of the great surgeons and anatomists of the eighteenth century and one of the greatest comparative anatomists of all time. His legacy was a museum of over 1300 specimens and anatomical preparations in the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in England, and a wealth of publications on a large variety of subjects, including two books on the teeth, gingival tissues, and their diseases.
authors.affiliation: Harvard School of Dental Medicine, USA.
authors.forename: Gerald
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Shklar
mesh_terms: D003741:Dental Deposits / Q000266:history; D005882:Gingival Diseases / Q000266:history; D049671:History, 18th Century; D006801:Humans; D010339:Pathology, Oral / Q000266:history*; D014076:Tooth Diseases / Q000266:history; D006113:United Kingdom