Memoirs of John Abernethy, F. R. S : with a view of his lectures, writings, and character.

  • George Macilwain
Date:
1854
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Credit: Memoirs of John Abernethy, F. R. S : with a view of his lectures, writings, and character. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    be necessary; and it was on one of these occa- sions that I first heard two words, Me-ward and Abernethy, the one from our forester guide, which I have never heard since, and the other which I have heard more frequently perhaps than any. The idea I then had of Abernethy was, that he was a great man who lived in London. The next distinct impression I have of him was derived from hearing my father say that a lady, who had gone up to London to have an operation performed, had been sent by him to Mr. Abernethy, because my father did not think the operation neces- sary or proper ; that Mr. Abernethy en- tirely agreed with him, and that the opera- tion was not performed; that the lady had returned home, and was getting well. I then found that my father had studied under him, and his name became a sort of household word in our family. Circumstances now oc- curred which occupied my mind in a different direction, and for some years I thought no more of Abernethy. As long as Surgery meant riding across a
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