John Abernethy: certificate showing a skeleton and an écorché figure holding aloft a vignette of Galen finding a human skeleton. Sugar-ground etching by J. G. Strutt, before 1821.

John Abernethy: his signature (with two others) appended to a print of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Engraving by W.H. Toms after himself.

John Abernethy. Mezzotint by E. McInnes, 1842, after Sir T. Lawrence.

Case of femoral aneurism, reaching as high as Poupart's ligament, cured by tying the external iliac artery / by John Abernethy.

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Case of femoral aneurism, reaching as high as Poupart's ligament, cured by tying the external iliac artery / by John Abernethy.