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 * Article title: Abernethy, John (1764-1831)
 * Author: Payne, Joseph Frank
 * LEAD: ABERNETHY, JOHN (1764–1831), an eminent surgeon, was born in London 3 April 1764, the son of John Abernethy, a London merchant belonging to an Irish family of Scotch extraction, whose father and grandfather, both of the same name, were Irish nonconformist divines, the second in descent especially being of some eminence.
 * LEAD: ABERNETHY, JOHN (1764–1831), an eminent surgeon, was born in London 3 April 1764, the son of John Abernethy, a London merchant belonging to an Irish family of Scotch extraction, whose father and grandfather, both of the same name, were Irish nonconformist divines, the second in descent especially being of some eminence.
 * LEAD: ABERNETHY, JOHN (1764–1831), an eminent surgeon, was born in London 3 April 1764, the son of John Abernethy, a London merchant belonging to an Irish family of Scotch extraction, whose father and grandfather, both of the same name, were Irish nonconformist divines, the second in descent especially being of some eminence.

General

 * Macilwain's Memoirs of John Abernethy, London, 1853, where a portrait is given
 * Biog. Dict. of Useful Knowledge Society (memoir by James Paget)
 * Latham's Lectures on Clinical Medicine, London, 1836, p. 75.

Cites

 * Macilwain (Life of Abernethy, i. 16)
 * Surgical Works, vol. i. (1811) p. 6-10, p. 61
 * Brodie's Autobiography, p. 23

Works

 * three short papers on anatomical subjects in the Philosophical Transactions from 1793 to 1798.
 * in Surgical Observations, part ii. (1806)
 * in Surgical Works, vol. i. (1811)
 * Surgical and Physiological Essays. Part i. On Lumbar Abscess, &c., 1793; Part ii. On Matter perspired, &c., by the Skin, 1793; Part iii. Injuries of the Head, &c., 1797.
 * Surgical Observations on Tumours, &c., 1804. Part ii. Disorders of the Digestive Organs, &c., 1806.
 * Surgical Works (containing the surgical papers of the above, with additions), 2 vols. 1811, and later.
 * Account of Disease in the Upper Maxillary Sinus (Transactions of Society for Improvement of Medical and Surgical Knowledge, 1800).
 * An Inquiry into Mr. Hunter's Theory of Life, 1814.
 * Physiological Lectures, 1817.
 * Introductory Lecture exhibiting Mr. Hunter's Opinions respecting Life and Disease, 1819.
 * The Hunterian Oration, 1819, 4to.
 * Reflections on Gall and Spurzheim's System of Physiognomy and Phrenology, 1821.
 * Lectures on Surgery, 1830; also in Lancet, 1824–5; reprinted 1828. (All the above, except three early physiological papers, are included in the Works, 4 vols. 1830.)
 * Three Memoirs in Philosophical Transactions: On Two Malformations, 1793; On Anatomy of the Whale, 1796; On the Foramina Thebesii, 1798.
 * Memoir on a Case of Heart-disease in Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, vol. i. 1806.