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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

HUNTER, John Dunn (1788 – 1827)

1788 – 1827

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1823

#8798

Manners and customs of several Indian tribes located west of the Mississippi; including some account of the soil, climate, and vegetable productions, and the Indian materia medica: to which is prefixed the history of the author's life during a residence of several years among them.

HUNTER, John Dunn (1788 – 1827)

Hunter claimed that as a child he had been captured by the Cherokee before they came to Texas. He adopted the name of an English benefactor, John Dunn, and later added the name "Hunter" given by the Indians because of…