|
Disclaimer:
Whonamedit.com does not give medical advice.
This survey of medical eponyms and the persons behind them is meant as a general interest site only. No information found here must under any circumstances be used for medical purposes, diagnostically, therapeutically or otherwise. If you, or anybody close to you, is affected, or believe to be affected, by any condition mentioned here: see a doctor.
|
A recommendation:
Hypography is an open community about science and all things related
|
|
|
Charles A. Hunter
Scottish-Canadian physician, born 7 February 1873, Auchterlass, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, died 1955.
Associated eponyms:
Hunter's syndrome (Charles A. Hunter)
Rare hereditary disorder characterised by dwarfism, a coarse facies, hepatosplenomegaly, digital contractures and mental retardation and deafness.
Hurler's syndrome
A metabolical disease characterized by dwarfism, hunchback, gargoyle like facies, mental retardation, and a large number of other abnormalities.
Biography:
After graduating from the University of Aberdeen, Charles A. Hunter undertook postgraduate training in London and Berlin. He then immigrated to Canada where he settled into practice in Winnipeg as specialist in internal medicine and worked in the Winnipeg General Hospital. During World War I Hunter served in Europe as an army medical officer. In 1910 he was appointed to the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Manitoba, and in 1928 he was appointed professor of medicine. He was unhappy with the irksome administrative responsibilities, however, and resigned in the following year but continued teaching until his retirement from his academic duties in 1933. Hunter was regarded as the leading diagnostician in western Canada and he retained his private consulting practice until a few years before his death in 1955 at the age of 82 years.
Obituary in:
- Canadian Medical Association Journal, Ottawa, 1955; 72: 712.
- Winnipeg Free Press, March 19, 1955.
|
|
|
