John Abernethy (surgeon)
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John Abernethy was an English surgeon. He is popularly remembered for having given his name to the Abernethy biscuit, a coarse-meal baked good meant to aid digestion.
John Abernethy
John Abernethy
John Abernethy
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John Abernethy (surgeon)
…assistant-surgeon for twenty-eight years, until, in 1815, he was elected principal surgeon. He had before that time been appointed lecturer in anatomy to the Royal College of Surgeons (1814). Abernethy was not a great operator, though his name is associated with the treatment of aneurysm by ligature of the external iliac artery. In…
Organisation headquarters in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London
Royal College of Surgeons, Court of Examiners (1894) by Henry Jamyn Brooks
The main exhibit room, Hunterian Museum, woodblock engraving by T.H.Shepperd & E.Radclyffe, London, 1853 (Dr. Nuno Carvalho de Sousa collection, Lisbon)
The skeleton of the seven and a half feet (230 cm) tall "Irish Giant" is visible in the middle of this image.