Antoni de Gimbernat

Antoni de Gimbernat y Arbos, known in Spanish as Antonio de Gimbernat, was a Spanish surgeon and anatomist, born at Cambrils in the province of Tarragona in 1734 and dead at Madrid in 1816. He is known for laying the groundwork for modern techniques of inguinal hernia repair, and he described in detail the anatomy of the inguinal and femoral regions of the human body. The lacunar ligament, a structure of that region, is named after him. His son, also named Antonio Gimbernat and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh who lived from 1765 to 1834, followed closely in his footsteps and became First Surgeon to the King of Spain. The Catalan Galeria de Metges Catalans carries an entry on him in Catalan.