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See also:ABERNETHY, See also:JOHN (1764-1831) , See also:English surgeon, See also:grandson of John Abernethy (see above), was See also:born in See also:London on the 3rd of See also:April 1764. His See also:father was a London See also:merchant. Educated at See also:Wolverhampton See also:grammar school, he was apprenticed in 1779 to See also:Sir See also:Charles Blicke (1745-1815), surgeon to St See also:Bartholomew's See also:Hospital, London. He attended the anatomical lectures of Sir See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Blizard (1743-1835) at the London Hospital, and was See also:early employed to assist as "demonstrator"; he also attended See also:Percival See also:Pott's surgical lectures at St Bartholomew's Hospital, as well as the lectures of John See also:Hunter. On Pott's resignation of the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of surgeon of St Bartholomew's, Sir Charles Blicke, who was assistant-surgeon, succeeded him, and Abernethy was elected assistant-surgeon in 1787. In this capacity he began to give lectures at his See also:house in Bartholomew See also:Close, which were so well attended that the See also:governors of the hospital built a See also:regular See also:theatre (1790-1791), and Abernethy thus became the founder of the distinguished school of St Bartholomew's. He held the office of assistant-surgeon of the hospital for the See also:long See also:period of twenty-eight years, till, in 1815, he was elected See also:principal surgeon. He had before that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time been appointed lecturer in See also:anatomy to the Royal See also:College of Surgeons (1814). Abernethy was not a See also:great operator, though his name is associated with the treatment of aneurism by ligature of the See also:external iliac artery. His Surgical Observations on the Constitutional Origin and Treatment of See also:Local Diseases (1809)—known as " My See also:Book," from the great frequency with which he referred his patients to it, and to See also:page 72 of it in particular, under that name—was one of the earliest popular See also:works on medical See also:science.
He taught that local diseases were frequently the results of . disordered states of the See also:digestive See also:organs, and were to be treated by purging and See also:attention to See also:diet. As a lecturer he was exceedingly attractive, and his success in teaching was largely attributable to the persuasiveness with which he enunciated his views.
It has been said, however, that the See also:influence he exerted on those who attended his lectures was not beneficial in this respect, that his opinions were delivered so dogmatically, and all who differed from him were disparaged and denounced so contemptuously, as to repress instead of stimulating inquiry. The celebrity he attained in his practice was due not only to his great professional skill, but also in See also:part to the singularity of his See also:manners. He used great plainness of speech in his intercourse with his patients, treating them often brusquely and sometimes even rudely. In the circle of his See also:family and See also:friends he was courteous and affectionate; and in all his dealings he was strictly just and See also:honourable. He resigned his position at St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1827, and died at his See also:residence at See also:Enfield on the loth of April 1831.
A collected edition of his works was published in 183o. A See also:biography, See also:Memoirs of John Abernethy, by See also:George Macilwain, appeared In 1853.
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