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1779 - apprenticed to Sir Charles Blicke (1745-1815) - surgeon at St Bartholomews Hospital
He attended anatomical lectures given by Sir Williamj Blizzard (1743-1835) at London Hospital and was employed to assist as demonstrator
He attended Percivall Potts surgical lectures at ST B's and also those given by John Hunter
1787 Pott's resigned as surgeon at St B's and was succeeded by Sir Charles Blicke and Abernethy was elected as assistant surgeon - post originally taken by Blicke
In his role as assistant surgeon he began to give lectures at his home in Bartholomew Close - they were so well attended that the governors of the hosital decided to build a theatre - 1790-1 - he thus became the founder of the Medical School at St B's
Remained assistant surgeon until 1815 when he became the principal surgeon
1814 he was appointed lecturer on anatomy to the Royal College of Surgeons
1809 - his Surgical Observations on the Constitutional Origin and Treatment of Local Diseases
'My Book' - always refered his patients to it - esp page 72
Taught that local diseases were freguently the result of disordered states of the digestive organs to be treated by purging and attention to diet
Disliked to be opposed in his lectures and was often rude to patients
