Richard Alfred Hunter FRCP (11 November 1923 – 25 November 1981) was a British physician of German origin, and president of the

History of Medicine Society Founded by Sir William Osler in 1912, the History of Medicine Society (formally "section"), at the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM), London, is one of the oldest History of Medicine societies in the world and is one of the four founder committees ...

of the

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from 1972 to 1973. He was a psychiatrist, historian and book collector. With his mother, Dr Ida Macalpine, also a psychiatrist, he wrote ''Three Hundred Years of Psychiatry 1535 to 1860'', Oxford University Press, 1963, using title pages from books in his collection to illustrate this first full chronicle of British psychiatry. Each book is accompanied by an essay describing its place in medical and social history. It remains a unique and important source for the history and bibliography of psychiatry in Britain before 1860.

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Presidents of the History of Medicine Society Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians British psychiatrists 1923 births 1981 deaths Physicians from Nuremberg German emigrants to the United Kingdom {{England-med-bio-stub