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The result was: promoted by 97198 (talk) 01:59, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

Charles Hunter (physician)
Source 1: Kane, H. H. (1880). The hypodermic injection of morphia: its history, advantages and dangers. The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. pp. 17–19. Source 2: Brunton, D. (2000). "A Question of Priority: Alexander Wood, Charles Hunter and the Hypodermic Method". Proceedings of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. 30: 349–351. Source 1: Kane, H. H. (1880). The hypodermic injection of morphia: its history, advantages and dangers. The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. pp. 17–19. Source 2: Brunton, D. (2000). "A Question of Priority: Alexander Wood, Charles Hunter and the Hypodermic Method". Proceedings of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. 30: 349–351.
 * ... that in the 1860s, Charles Hunter added a needle to the design of the syringe and coined the name "hypodermic"?
 * ALT1:... that in the 1860s, doctors Charles Hunter and Alexander Wood had a heated debate about the invention of the hypodermic syringe and whether morphine injections affected only the area where a patient had been injected versus the entire body?
 * Reviewed: Binokel

Created by Zeromonk (talk). Self-nominated at 14:58, 3 December 2018 (UTC).


 * Some comments: 1. Wood did not invent the syringe. He used the syringe made by Mr Ferguson of Giltspur Street, London. (Wood, A. A new method of treating neuralgia by subcutaneous injection’, Ed Medical & Surgical Journal (1855))

2. Brunton, D. (2000) is available online at http://www.rcpe.ac.uk/sites/default/files/vol30_4.1_12.pdf   Should be linked 3. Kane, H.H. published Hypdermic injection of morphia.. in New York in 1880