ABBOTT LABORATORIES
10-K, 1994-03-03
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                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

                                   FORM 10-K
                            WASHINGTON, D. C. 20549
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(MARK ONE)

/X/  ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE
     ACT OF 1934 [FEE REQUIRED]

                                       OR
/ /  TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE SECURITIES
     EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 [FEE REQUIRED]
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FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1993.       COMMISSION FILE NUMBER 1-2189

[LOGO]                               ABBOTT LABORATORIES

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     AN ILLINOIS CORPORATION                     36-0698440
                                       (I.R.S. employer identification
                                                   number)
       ONE ABBOTT PARK ROAD                    (708) 937-6100
 ABBOTT PARK, ILLINOIS 60064-3500            (telephone number)
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          SECURITIES REGISTERED PURSUANT TO SECTION 12(B) OF THE ACT:

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                                                                      NAME OF EACH EXCHANGE
                                                                       ON WHICH REGISTERED
                   TITLE OF EACH CLASS
Common Shares, Without Par Value                            New York Stock Exchange
                                                            Chicago Stock Exchange
                                                            Pacific Stock Exchange
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INDICATE BY CHECK MARK WHETHER THE REGISTRANT (1) HAS FILED ALL REPORTS REQUIRED
TO BE FILED BY SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 DURING
THE  PRECEDING 12 MONTHS, AND  (2) HAS BEEN SUBJECT  TO SUCH FILING REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE PAST 90 DAYS.
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INDICATE BY CHECK MARK IF DISCLOSURE  OF DELINQUENT FILERS PURSUANT TO ITEM  405
OF REGULATION S-K IS NOT CONTAINED HEREIN AND WILL NOT BE CONTAINED, TO THE BEST
OF  THE REGISTRANT'S KNOWLEDGE, IN THE PROXY STATEMENT INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE
IN PART III OF THIS FORM 10-K OR ANY AMENDMENT TO THIS FORM 10-K. [    ]

THE AGGREGATE MARKET  VALUE OF THE  748,888,598 SHARES OF  VOTING STOCK HELD  BY
NONAFFILIATES OF THE REGISTRANT, COMPUTED BY USING THE CLOSING PRICE AS REPORTED
ON  THE CONSOLIDATED TRANSACTION REPORTING SYSTEM FOR ABBOTT LABORATORIES COMMON
SHARES WITHOUT PAR VALUE ON JANUARY 31, 1994, WAS APPROXIMATELY $22,092,213,641.

NUMBER OF COMMON SHARES OUTSTANDING AS OF JANUARY 31, 1994: 819,811,254.

                      DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

PORTIONS OF THE ABBOTT  LABORATORIES ANNUAL REPORT FOR  THE YEAR ENDED  DECEMBER
31, 1993 ARE INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE INTO PARTS I, II, AND IV.

PORTIONS  OF THE  1994 ABBOTT LABORATORIES  PROXY STATEMENT  ARE INCORPORATED BY
REFERENCE INTO PART III.

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                                     PART I

ITEM 1. BUSINESS

                        GENERAL DEVELOPMENT OF BUSINESS

    Abbott  Laboratories is an  Illinois corporation, incorporated  in 1900. The
Company's* principal business  is the discovery,  development, manufacture,  and
sale of a broad and diversified line of health care products and services.

              FINANCIAL INFORMATION RELATING TO INDUSTRY SEGMENTS,
               GEOGRAPHIC AREAS, AND CLASSES OF SIMILAR PRODUCTS

    Incorporated  herein by reference is the footnote entitled "Industry Segment
and Geographic Area Information" of the Consolidated Financial Statements in the
Abbott Laboratories Annual Report  for the year ended  December 31, 1993  ("1993
Annual Report"), filed as an exhibit to this report. Also incorporated herein by
reference  is the text and table of  sales by class of similar products included
in the section of the 1993 Annual Report captioned "Financial Review."

                       NARRATIVE DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS

PHARMACEUTICAL AND NUTRITIONAL PRODUCTS

    Included  in  this  segment  is  a   broad  line  of  adult  and   pediatric
pharmaceuticals  and  nutritionals. These  products  are sold  primarily  on the
prescription or recommendation of physicians or other health care professionals.
The  segment   also   includes   agricultural  and   chemical   products,   bulk
pharmaceuticals, and consumer products.

    Principal    pharmaceutical   and    nutritional   products    include   the
anti-infectives clarithromycin, sold  in the United  States under the  trademark
Biaxin-R-  and outside the United States primarily under the trademark Klacid-R-
and tosufloxacin, sold in Japan under the trademark Tosuxacin-TM-; various forms
of the  antibiotic  erythromycin, sold  primarily  as PCE-R-  or  polymer-coated
erythromycin,   Erythrocin-R-,  and  E.E.S.-R-;  agents  for  the  treatment  of
epilepsy, including  Depakote-R-;  a  broad  line  of  cardiovascular  products,
including  Loftyl-R-,  a  vasoactive  agent  sold  outside  the  United  States;
Hytrin-R-, used  as  an  anti-hypertensive  and  for  the  treatment  of  benign
prostatic hyperplasia; Abbokinase-R-, a thrombolytic drug; Survanta-R-, a bovine
derived  lung surfactant;  various forms  of prepared  infant formula, including
Similac-R-,  Isomil-R-,  and  Alimentum-R-;  and  other  medical  and  pediatric
nutritionals,  including  Ensure-R-,  Ensure  Plus-R-,  Jevity-R-,  Glucerna-R-,
Advera-TM-, PediaSure-R-, Pedialyte-R-  and Gain-R-.  Consumer products  include
the  dandruff shampoo Selsun Blue-R-; Murine-R-  eye care and ear care products;
Tronolane-R- hemorrhoid  medication; and  Faultless-R- rubber  sundry  products.
Agricultural  and chemical  products include plant  growth regulators, including
ProGibb-R-; herbicides;  larvicides,  including  Vectobac-R-;  and  biologically
derived insecticides, including DiPel-R- and XenTari-R-.

    Pharmaceutical  and  nutritional  products are  generally  sold  directly to
retailers, wholesalers, health care facilities, and government agencies. In most
cases, they are  distributed from Company-owned  distribution centers or  public
warehouses.  Certain products are  co-marketed with other  companies. In certain
overseas countries, some of these products are marketed and distributed  through
distributors.  Primary  marketing  efforts  for  pharmaceutical  and nutritional
products are directed toward securing the prescription or recommendation of  the
Company's  brand of products  by physicians or  other health care professionals.
Managed care purchasers, for example health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and
pharmacy  benefit  managers,  are  becoming  increasingly  important  customers.
Competition  is  generally from  other broad  line  and specialized  health care
manufacturers.  A  significant   aspect  of  competition   is  the  search   for
technological innovations. The
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* As used throughout the text of this Report, the term "Company" refers to
  Abbott Laboratories, an Illinois corporation, or Abbott Laboratories and its
  consolidated subsidiaries, as the context requires.

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introduction of new products by competitors and changes in medical practices and
procedures  can result in product obsolescence. In addition, the substitution of
generic drugs for the  brand prescribed has  increased competitive pressures  on
pharmaceutical products.

    Consumer   products  are  promoted  directly   to  the  public  by  consumer
advertising. These  products  are  generally  sold  directly  to  retailers  and
wholesalers.  Competitive products  are sold  by other  diversified consumer and
health  care  companies.  Competitive  factors  include  consumer   advertising,
scientific innovation, price, and availability of generic product forms.

    Agricultural  and  chemical  products  are  generally  sold  to agricultural
distributors and pharmaceutical companies.  Competition is primarily from  large
chemical   and   agricultural  companies   and  companies   selling  specialized
agricultural products. Competition is based on numerous factors depending on the
market served.  Important competitive  factors include  product performance  for
specialized   industrial  and   agricultural  uses,   price,  and  technological
advantages.

    The  Company  is   the  leading   worldwide  producer   of  the   antibiotic
erythromycin.  Similac-R- is  the leading infant  formula product  in the United
States.

    Under an agreement between the Company and Takeda Chemical Industries,  Ltd.
of  Japan  (Takeda), TAP  Pharmaceuticals Inc.  (TAP), owned  50 percent  by the
Company and 50  percent by  Takeda, develops and  markets in  the United  States
products  based on Takeda research. TAP  markets Lupron-R-, an LH-RH analog, and
Lupron Depot-R-, a sustained  release form of Lupron-R-,  in the United  States.
These   agents  are  used  for  the  treatment  of  advanced  prostatic  cancer,
endometriosis, and central  precocious puberty. The  Company also has  marketing
rights  to certain Takeda products in select Latin American markets. The Company
also markets  Lupron-R-,  Lupron Depot-R-,  and  Lupron Depot-Ped-R-  in  select
markets outside the United States.

HOSPITAL AND LABORATORY PRODUCTS

    Hospital and laboratory products include diagnostic systems for blood banks,
hospitals,   commercial   laboratories,   and   alternate-care   testing  sites;
intravenous  and  irrigation  fluids   and  related  administration   equipment,
including  electronic drug  delivery systems;  drugs and  drug delivery systems;
anesthetics; critical care  products; and other  medical specialty products  for
hospitals and alternate-care sites.

    The  principal products included in this segment are parenteral (intravenous
or I.V.) solutions and related administration equipment sold as the  LifeCare-R-
line  of  products,  LifeShield-R-  sets,  and  Venoset-R-  products; irrigating
fluids; parenteral nutritionals such as Aminosyn-R- and Liposyn-R-; Plum-R-  and
Omni-Flow-R-   electronic   drug  delivery   systems;  Abbott   Pain  Management
Provider-R-; patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) systems; venipuncture  products;
hospital  injectables; premixed I.V. drugs in various containers; ADD-Vantage-R-
and Nutrimix-R- drug  and nutritional delivery  systems; anesthetics,  including
Pentothal-R-,  isoflurane,  and  enflurane;  hemodynamic  monitoring  equipment;
Calcijex-R-, an injectable agent for  treatment of bone disease in  hemodialysis
patients;  critical  care products  including  Opticath-R-; screening  tests for
hepatitis B, HTLV-1, hepatitis B core,  and hepatitis C; tests for detection  of
AIDS  antibodies and antigens,  and other infectious  disease detection systems;
tests for  determining  levels  of  abused drugs  with  the  ADx-R-  instrument;
physiological  diagnostic  tests; cancer  monitoring  tests including  tests for
prostate specific  antigen; laboratory  tests  and therapeutic  drug  monitoring
systems  such as TDx-R-; clinical chemistry  systems such as Abbott Spectrum-R-,
Abbott  Spectrum-R-  EPx-R-,  Abbott   Spectrum-R-  CCx-TM-,  and   Quantum-TM-;
Commander-R-  and IMx-R- lines  of diagnostic instruments  and chemical reagents
used with immunoassay diagnostics; Abbott Vision-R-, a desk-top blood  analyzer,
the  Abbott  TestPack-R-  system for  diagnostic  testing,  and a  full  line of
hematology systems and reagents  known as the  Cell-Dyn-R- series. The  hospital
and laboratory products the Company expects to introduce in the United States in
1994  include:  AxSym-TM-,  a  diagnostic  system;  Abbott  Maestro-TM-,  a data
management system; and EnCounter-R-, a desktop hematology analyzer.

    The Company markets hospital  and laboratory products  in the United  States
and   many  other  countries.  These   products  are  generally  distributed  to
wholesalers and  directly to  hospitals, laboratories,  and physicians'  offices
from    distribution   centers   maintained   by    the   Company.   Sales   are

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also made in the  home infusion services market  directly to patients  receiving
treatment outside the hospital through marketing arrangements with hospitals and
other  health  care  providers.  Overseas  sales  are  made  either  directly to
customers or through distributors, depending on the market served.

    The hospital and laboratory products industry segment is highly competitive,
both in the United States and  overseas. This segment is subject to  competition
in  technological  innovation, price,  convenience  of use,  service, instrument
warranty  provisions,  product  performance,  long-term  supply  contracts,  and
product  potential  for  overall  cost  effectiveness  and  productivity  gains.
Products in  this segment  can be  subject to  rapid product  obsolescence.  The
Company  has benefitted from technological advantages  of certain of its current
products; however, these advantages may be reduced or eliminated as  competitors
introduce new products.

    The  Company  is  one of  the  leading  domestic manufacturers  of  I.V. and
irrigating  solutions   and   related   administration   equipment,   parenteral
nutritional products, anesthesia products, and drug delivery systems. It is also
the  worldwide leader in in vitro  diagnostic products, including thyroid tests,
therapeutic drug monitoring, cancer monitoring  tests, diagnostic tests for  the
detection of hepatitis and AIDS antibodies, and immunodiagnostic instruments.

         INFORMATION WITH RESPECT TO THE COMPANY'S BUSINESS IN GENERAL

SOURCES AND AVAILABILITY OF RAW MATERIALS

    The  Company purchases,  in the ordinary  course of  business, necessary raw
materials and  supplies  essential to  the  Company's operations  from  numerous
suppliers  in  the  United  States  and  overseas.  There  have  been  no recent
availability problems or significant supply shortages.

PATENTS, TRADEMARKS, AND LICENSES

    The Company is aware of the desirability for patent and trademark protection
for its  products.  The Company  owns,  has  applications pending  for,  and  is
licensed  under a  substantial number  of patents.  Accordingly, where possible,
patents and trademarks are sought and obtained for the Company's products in the
United States and  all countries  of major  marketing interest  to the  Company.
Principal  trademarks and the products they cover are discussed in the Narrative
Description of  Business on  pages 1  and 2.  These, and  various patents  which
expire  during the period 1994 to 2011, in  the aggregate, are believed to be of
material importance in  the operation  of the Company's  business. However,  the
Company believes that no single patent, license, trademark, (or related group of
patents,  licenses,  or trademarks)  is material  in  relation to  the Company's
business as a whole.

SEASONAL ASPECTS, CUSTOMERS, BACKLOG, AND RENEGOTIATION

    There are no  significant seasonal  aspects to the  Company's business.  The
incidence  of  certain  infectious  diseases which  occur  at  various  times in
different areas of the world does, however, affect the demand for the  Company's
anti-infective  products. Orders for the Company's products are generally filled
on a current basis, and order backlog is not material to the Company's business.
No single  customer accounted  for sales  equaling  10 percent  or more  of  the
Company's  consolidated net sales. No material portion of the Company's business
is subject  to renegotiation  of  profits or  termination  of contracts  at  the
election of the government.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

    The   Company  spent  $880,974,000  in   1993,  $772,407,000  in  1992,  and
$666,336,000 in  1991 on  research  to discover  and  develop new  products  and
processes  and to improve existing products and processes. The Company continues
to concentrate research expenditures in pharmaceutical and diagnostic products.

ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS

    The Company believes  that its  operations comply in  all material  respects
with  applicable  laws  and  regulations  concerning  environmental  protection.
Regulations  under  federal  and  state  environmental  laws  impose   stringent
limitations  on  emissions  and  discharges  to  the  environment  from  various
manufacturing operations. The Company's  capital and operating expenditures  for
pollution control in

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1993  were approximately $32 million and  $31 million, respectively. Capital and
operating expenditures for  pollution control are  estimated to approximate  $39
million and $36 million, respectively, in 1994.

    The  Company is participating as one of many potentially responsible parties
in investigation and/ or remediation at eight locations in the United States and
Puerto Rico under  the Comprehensive Environmental  Response, Compensation,  and
Liability  Act, commonly known as Superfund.  The aggregate costs of remediation
at these sites by all identified parties are uncertain but have been subject  to
widely ranging estimates totaling as much as several hundred million dollars. In
many  cases, the Company believes that the actual costs will be lower than these
estimates, and  the  fraction  for  which the  Company  may  be  responsible  is
anticipated to be considerably less and will be paid out over a number of years.
The  Company expects  to participate  in the  investigation or  cleanup at these
sites. The Company is also voluntarily investigating potential contamination  at
five  Company-owned  sites,  and  has initiated  voluntary  remediation  at four
Company-owned sites,  in cooperation  with the  Environmental Protection  Agency
(EPA) or similar state agencies.

    While  it is not feasible to predict with certainty the costs related to the
previously described investigation and cleanup activities, the Company  believes
that  such costs, together  with other expenditures  to maintain compliance with
applicable laws and regulations concerning environmental protection, should  not
have  a  material  adverse  effect  on  the  Company's  earnings  or competitive
position.

EMPLOYEES

    The Company employed 49,659 persons as of December 31, 1993.

REGULATION

    The development,  manufacture,  sale,  and  distribution  of  the  Company's
products  are subject  to comprehensive  government regulation,  and the general
trend is  toward more  stringent regulation.  Government regulation  by  various
federal,  state, and local  agencies, which includes  detailed inspection of and
controls over research and  laboratory procedures, clinical investigations,  and
manufacturing,  marketing,  sampling, distribution,  recordkeeping,  storage and
disposal practices,  substantially increases  the  time, difficulty,  and  costs
incurred in obtaining and maintaining the approval to market newly developed and
existing  products. Government regulatory  actions can result  in the seizure or
recall of  products, suspension  or revocation  of the  authority necessary  for
their production and sale, and other civil or criminal sanctions.

    Continuing  studies of the utilization, safety,  and efficacy of health care
products and  their  components  are being  conducted  by  industry,  government
agencies,  and  others. Such  studies,  which employ  increasingly sophisticated
methods and  techniques, can  call into  question the  utilization, safety,  and
efficacy  of previously marketed  products and in some  cases have resulted, and
may in the future  result, in the discontinuance  of marketing of such  products
and  give rise  to claims for  damages from  persons who believe  they have been
injured as a result of their use.

    The cost  of  human  health care  products  continues  to be  a  subject  of
investigation  and  action  by governmental  agencies,  legislative  bodies, and
private organizations in the  United States and other  countries. In the  United
States,  most states have enacted  generic substitution legislation requiring or
permitting a  dispensing pharmacist  to  substitute a  different  manufacturer's
version  of a pharmaceutical  product for the one  prescribed. Federal and state
governments continue to press efforts to  reduce costs of Medicare and  Medicaid
programs,  including restrictions on amounts agencies will reimburse for the use
of products. Manufacturers  must pay certain  statutorily-prescribed rebates  on
Medicaid  purchases for reimbursement on prescription drugs under state Medicaid
plans. In addition,  the Federal  government follows  a diagnosis-related  group
(DRG)  payment system for certain institutional services provided under Medicare
or Medicaid.  The  DRG  system  entitles  a health  care  facility  to  a  fixed
reimbursement  based on discharge diagnoses rather than actual costs incurred in
patient treatment, thereby increasing the incentive for the facility to limit or
control expenditures for many health care products. The Veterans Health Care Act
of 1992 requires manufacturers to extend

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additional discounts  on pharmaceutical  products to  various federal  agencies,
including  the Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Defense, and Public
Health Service entities and institutions.

    In the United States, governmental cost-containment efforts have extended to
the federally subsidized Special Supplemental  Food Program for Women,  Infants,
and  Children (WIC). All states participate in  WIC and have sought and obtained
rebates from manufacturers  of infant  formula whose  products are  used in  the
program.  All of the  states have also conducted  competitive bidding for infant
formula contracts which require the use of specific infant formula products  for
the  state WIC program. The Child Nutrition  and WIC Reauthorization Act of 1989
requires all states participating in WIC  to engage in competitive bidding  upon
the expiration of their existing infant formula contracts.

    Governmental regulatory agencies now require manufacturers to pay additional
fees.  Under the Prescription  Drug User Fee  Act of 1992,  the Federal Food and
Drug Administration imposes substantial fees on various aspects of the approval,
manufacture  and  sale  of  prescription  drugs.  Congress  is  now  considering
expanding  user  fees  to  medical  devices.  The  Company  believes  that  such
legislation, if enacted, will add considerable expense for the Company.

    In the United States comprehensive legislation has been proposed that  would
make   significant  changes  to  the  availability,  delivery  and  payment  for
healthcare products and services. It is the intent of such proposed  legislation
to  provide health and medical  insurance for all United  States citizens and to
reduce the rate of increases in  United States healthcare expenditures. If  such
legislation  is  enacted,  the Company  believes  it  could have  the  effect of
reducing prices for,  or reducing  the rate of  price increases  for health  and
medical insurance and medical products and services.

    International  operations  are  also  subject  to  a  significant  degree of
government  regulation.   Many  countries,   directly  or   indirectly   through
reimbursement  limitations,  control  the  selling  price  of  most  health care
products. Furthermore, many  developing countries limit  the importation of  raw
materials  and finished products. International regulations are having an impact
on United  States  regulations,  as well.  The  International  Organization  for
Standardization  ("ISO") provides the voluntary  criteria for regulating medical
devices within the European Economic Community. The Food and Drug Administration
("FDA") has  announced that  it  will attempt  to  harmonize its  regulation  of
medical  devices with that of  the ISO. Recently published  changes to the FDA's
regulations governing the manufacture of medical devices appear to encompass and
exceed the ISO's approach to regulating  medical devices. The FDA's adoption  of
the  ISO's approach to regulation  and other changes to  the manner in which the
FDA regulates medical devices  will increase the cost  of compliance with  those
regulations.

    Efforts  to reduce  health care  costs are  also being  made in  the private
sector. Health  care  providers  have  responded  by  instituting  various  cost
reduction and containment measures.

    It  is not possible to predict the extent to which the Company or the health
care industry in general might be affected by the matters discussed above.

                            INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS

    The  Company  markets  products  in  approximately  130  countries   through
affiliates  and distributors.  Most of the  products discussed  in the preceding
sections of this report are sold outside the United States. In addition, certain
products of  a  local nature  and  variations of  product  lines to  meet  local
regulatory  requirements and marketing preferences are manufactured and marketed
to customers outside the United States. International operations are subject  to
certain  additional  risks inherent  in conducting  business outside  the United
States, including  price and  currency exchange  controls, changes  in  currency
exchange  rates,  limitations  on foreign  participation  in  local enterprises,
expropriation, nationalization, and other governmental action.

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ITEM 2. PROPERTIES

    The Company's corporate offices are located at One Abbott Park Road,  Abbott
Park,  Illinois 60064-3500. The locations of a number of the Company's principal
plants are listed below.

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Abbott Park, Illinois           Pharmaceutical and Nutritional Products, and Hospital and Laboratory Products
Altavista, Virginia             Pharmaceutical and Nutritional Products
Austin, Texas                   Hospital and Laboratory Products
Barceloneta, Puerto Rico        Pharmaceutical and Nutritional Products, and Hospital and Laboratory Products
Campoverde, Italy               Pharmaceutical and Nutritional Products, and Hospital and Laboratory Products
Casa Grande, Arizona            Pharmaceutical and Nutritional Products
Columbus, Ohio                  Pharmaceutical and Nutritional Products
Delkenheim, Germany             Hospital and Laboratory Products
Irving, Texas                   Hospital and Laboratory Products
Laurinburg, North Carolina      Pharmaceutical and Nutritional Products, and Hospital and Laboratory Products
Mexico City, Mexico             Pharmaceutical and Nutritional Products, and Hospital and Laboratory Products
Montreal, Canada                Pharmaceutical and Nutritional Products, and Hospital and Laboratory Products
Mountain View, California       Hospital and Laboratory Products
North Chicago, Illinois         Pharmaceutical and Nutritional Products, and Hospital and Laboratory Products
Queenborough, England           Pharmaceutical and Nutritional Products, and Hospital and Laboratory Products
Rocky Mount, North Carolina     Hospital and Laboratory Products
Salt Lake City, Utah            Hospital and Laboratory Products
Santa Clara, California         Hospital and Laboratory Products
Sligo/Donegal/Cootehill,        Pharmaceutical and Nutritional Products, and Hospital and Laboratory Products
 Ireland
Sturgis, Michigan               Pharmaceutical and Nutritional Products
St. Remy, France                Pharmaceutical and Nutritional Products, and Hospital and Laboratory Products
Tokyo, Japan                    Hospital and Laboratory Products
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    In addition to the above, the Company has manufacturing facilities in  eight
other  locations in  the United States  and Puerto  Rico. Overseas manufacturing
facilities are  located in  19  other countries.  The Company's  facilities  are
deemed  suitable,  provide adequate  productive  capacity, and  are  utilized at
normal and acceptable levels.

    In the United States  and Puerto Rico, the  Company owns seven  distribution
centers.  The Company  also has  twelve United  States research  and development
facilities located at  Abbott Park, Illinois;  Andover, Massachusetts;  Ashland,
Ohio; Columbus, Ohio (2 locations); Irving, Texas; Long Grove, Illinois; Madera,
California;  Mountain View, California; North Chicago, Illinois; Salt Lake City,
Utah; and  Santa  Clara, California.  Overseas,  the Company  has  research  and
development  facilities in Argentina, Australia,  Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan,
The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.

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    The corporate offices, all manufacturing plants, and all other facilities in
the  United  States  and  overseas  are  owned  or  leased  by  the  Company  or
subsidiaries of the Company.

ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

    The  Company is involved  in various claims  and legal proceedings including
(as of January 31,  1994) 7 antitrust suits  and 6 investigations in  connection
with  the Company's sale  and marketing of infant  formula products, 138 product
liability cases that allege  injuries to the offspring  of women who ingested  a
synthetic  estrogen (DES) during pregnancy and  22 antitrust suits in connection
with the Company's sale and marketing of pharmaceuticals.

    The infant formula antitrust suits, which are pending in various federal and
state courts,  allege  that  the Company  conspired  with  one or  more  of  its
competitors  to fix  prices for infant  formula, to rig  a bid on  a contract to
provide infant formula under the federal government's Special Supplemental  Food
Program  for  Women,  Infants, and  Children  (WIC),  to deprive  states  of the
benefits of competition in providing rebates to the state pursuant to WIC sales,
and to restrain trade and monopolize  the market for infant formula products  in
violation  of state and federal antitrust laws. The suits were brought on behalf
of  individuals,  a  competitor,  the   Federal  Trade  Commission,  and   state
governmental agencies seeking treble damages, civil penalties, and other relief.
Three  of the 7 cases  are pending in state courts  in Calhoun County and Shelby
County, Alabama and in Austin, Texas. The  Calhoun County suit purports to be  a
class  action on behalf of  Alabama consumers. The 4  other cases are pending in
federal courts in  Los Angeles, California,  Tallahassee, Florida, Baton  Rouge,
Louisiana  (this  suit purports  to be  a  class action  on behalf  of Louisiana
consumers), and  Washington,  D.C.  The  Company  has  filed  responses  to  the
complaints  denying all  substantive allegations.  The investigations  are being
conducted by the Attorneys General of the states of California, Connecticut, New
York, Pennsylvania  and Wisconsin  and  by the  Canadian Bureau  of  Competition
Policy.  The  four  shareholder  derivative suits  (which  were  consolidated in
federal court in Chicago, Illinois) that  had been filed against certain of  the
Company's  officers and directors regarding the  Company's sale and marketing of
infant formula products were dismissed with prejudice on January 31, 1994.

    Twelve of the 22  pharmaceutical antitrust suits are  pending in the  United
States  District Court for the  Southern District of New  York; 4 are pending in
state court  in San  Francisco County,  California; the  6 remaining  cases  are
pending  in  federal district  courts  in San  Francisco,  California, Savannah,
Georgia, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Charleston, South Carolina, Austin, Texas,  and
Galveston,  Texas. These suits allege  that various pharmaceutical manufacturers
have conspired to fix  drug prices and/or to  discriminate in pricing to  retail
pharmacies  by  providing  discounts  to  mail-order  pharmacies,  institutional
pharmacies, and HMOs.  The suits were  brought on behalf  of retail  pharmacies,
seek  treble damages and other relief, and some purport to be class actions. The
Company  intends  to   respond  to  the   complaints  denying  all   substantive
allegations.

    While  it is  not feasible  to predict the  outcome of  such pending claims,
proceedings, and investigations  with certainty, management  is of the  opinion,
with  which its General Counsel concurs,  that their ultimate disposition should
not have a material adverse effect on the Company's financial position.

ITEM 4. SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS

    None.

                      EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF THE REGISTRANT

    Officers of the Company  are elected annually by  the board of directors  at
the first meeting held after the annual shareholders meeting. Each officer holds
office  until  a successor  has been  duly  elected and  qualified or  until the
officer's death, resignation, or removal. Vacancies may be filled at any meeting
of the board. Any officer may be removed by the board of directors when, in  its
judgment, removal would serve the best interests of the Company.

    Current  corporate officers,  and their  ages as  of February  11, 1994, are
listed below. The  officers' principal occupations  and employment from  January
1989 to present and the dates of their first

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election  as officers  of the Company  are also shown.  Unless otherwise stated,
employment was by  the Company  for the period  indicated. There  are no  family
relationships between any corporate officers or directors.

DUANE L. BURNHAM**, 52

    1989 -- Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer, and Director.
    1989 to 1990 -- Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and Director.
    1990 to present -- Chairman  of the  Board and Chief  Executive Officer, and
                       Director.
    Elected Corporate Officer -- 1982.

THOMAS R. HODGSON**, 52

    1989 to 1990 -- Executive Vice President and Director.
    1990 to present -- President and Chief Operating Officer, and Director.
    Elected Corporate Officer -- 1980.

ROBERT N. BECK**, 53

    1989 to 1992 -- Executive Vice President, BankAmerica and Bank of America.
    1992 to present -- Senior Vice President, Human Resources.
    Elected Corporate Officer -- 1992.

PAUL N. CLARK**, 47

    1989 to 1990 -- Vice President, Pharmaceutical Operations.
    1990 to present -- Senior Vice President, Pharmaceutical Operations.
    Elected Corporate Officer -- 1985.

GARY P. COUGHLAN**, 49

    1989 -- Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Kraft, Inc.
    1989 to 1990 -- Senior Vice President, Finance, Kraft General Foods.
    1990 to present -- Senior  Vice  President,  Finance  and  Chief   Financial
                       Officer.
    Elected Corporate Officer -- 1990.

LAEL F. JOHNSON**, 56

    1989 -- Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel.
    1989 to present -- Senior Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel.
    Elected Corporate Officer -- 1981.

JOHN G. KRINGEL**, 54

    1989 to 1990 -- Vice President, Hospital Products.
    1990 to present -- Senior Vice President, Hospital Products.
    Elected Corporate Officer -- 1981.

J. DUNCAN MCINTYRE**, 56

    1989 to 1990 -- Vice President.
    1990 to present -- Senior Vice President, International Operations.
    Elected Corporate Officer -- 1987.

THOMAS M. MCNALLY**, 46

    1989 -- Area Vice President, Pacific, Asia and Africa, Abbott International,
            Ltd. (a subsidiary of the Company).
    1989 to 1990 -- Vice President, Chemical and Agricultural Products.
    1990 to 1993 -- Senior Vice President, Chemical and Agricultural Products.
    1993 to present -- Senior Vice President, Ross Products.
    Elected Corporate Officer -- 1989.

ROBERT L. PARKINSON, JR.**, 43

    1989 -- Divisional Vice President, Commercial Operations.
    1989 to 1990 -- Vice President, Corporate Hospital Marketing.
    1990 to 1993 -- Vice President, European Operations.

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    1993 to present -- Senior   Vice   President,   Chemical   and  Agricultural
                       Products.
    Elected Corporate Officer -- 1989.

DAVID A. THOMPSON**, 52

    1989 to 1990 -- Vice President, Diagnostic Operations.
    1990 to present -- Senior Vice President, Diagnostic Operations.
    Elected Corporate Officer -- 1982.

JOY A. AMUNDSON**, 39

    1989 to 1990 -- General Manager, Alternate Site.
    1990 -- Divisional Vice  President and  General Manager,  Hospital  Products
            Business Sector.
    1990 to 1994 -- Vice President, Corporate Hospital Marketing.
    1994 to present -- Vice President, Health Systems.
    Elected Corporate Officer -- 1990.

CHRISTOPHER B. BEGLEY, 41

    1989 -- Director, Hospital Products Business Sector.
    1989 to 1990 -- General Manager, Hospital Products Business Sector.
    1990 to 1993 -- Divisional  Vice  President  and  General  Manager, Hospital
                    Products Business Sector.
    1993 -- Vice President, Hospital Products Business Sector.
    Elected Corporate Officer -- 1993.

THOMAS D. BROWN, 45

    1989 to 1992 -- Divisional Vice President, Western Hemisphere.
    1992 to 1993 -- Divisional Vice President, Diagnostic Commercial Operations.
    1993 to present -- Vice President, Diagnostic Commercial Operations.
    Elected Corporate Officer -- 1993.

GARY R. BYERS**, 52

    1989 to 1993 -- Divisional Vice President, Corporate Auditing.
    1993 to present -- Vice President, Internal Audit.
    Elected Corporate Officer -- 1993.

KENNETH W. FARMER**, 48

    1989 -- Vice President, Management Information Services.
    1989 to present -- Vice  President,  Management  Information  Services   and
                       Administration.
    Elected Corporate Officer -- 1985.

THOMAS C. FREYMAN**, 39

    1989 to 1991 -- Treasurer,  Abbott International, Ltd.  (a subsidiary of the
                    Company).
    1991 to present -- Vice President and Treasurer.
    Elected Corporate Officer -- 1991.

JAY B. JOHNSTON, 50

    1989 to 1992 -- President, Dainabot Co., Ltd. (an affiliate of the  Company)
                    and   General  Manager  Asia   Pacific,  Abbott  Diagnostics
                    Division.
    1992 -- Divisional Vice President, Business Development.
    1992 to 1993 -- Divisional Vice  President and  General Manager,  Diagnostic
                    Assays and Operations.
    1993 to present -- Corporate   Vice   President,   Diagnostic   Assays   and
                       Operations.
    Elected Corporate Officer -- 1993.

JAMES J. KOZIARZ, 44

    1989 to 1990 -- General Manager, Hepatitis/Retrovirus Business Sector.
    1990 to 1992 -- Vice President and General Manager, Diagnostic Assays.
    1992 to present -- Vice  President,   Diagnostic   Products   Research   and
                       Development.
    Elected Corporate Officer -- 1993.

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CHRISTOPHER A. KUEBLER, 40

    1989 to 1992 -- Divisional Vice President, Marketing.
    1992 to 1993 -- Divisional Vice President, Sales and Marketing.
    1993 to present -- Vice President, European Operations.
    Elected Corporate Officer -- 1993.

JOHN F. LUSSEN**, 52

    1989 to present -- Vice President, Taxes.
    Elected Corporate Officer -- 1985.

DAVID V. MILLIGAN, PH.D., 53

    1989 to 1992 -- Vice    President,   Diagnostic    Products   Research   and
                    Development.
    1992 to present -- Vice  President,  Pharmaceutical  Products  Research  and
                       Development.
    Elected Corporate Officer -- 1984.

RICHARD H. MOREHEAD**, 59

    1989 to present -- Vice President, Corporate Planning and Development.
    Elected Corporate Officer -- 1985.

THEODORE A. OLSON**, 55

    1989 to present -- Vice President and Controller.
    Elected Corporate Officer -- 1988.

CARL A. SPALDING, 48

    1989 to 1992 -- Vice President, International, Johnson & Johnson.
    1992 to present -- Vice President, General Manager, Ross Products.
    Elected Corporate Officer -- 1993.

WILLIAM H. STADTLANDER, 48

    1989 to 1992 -- Divisional Vice President, Medical Nutritionals.
    1992 to present -- Divisional  Vice President  and General  Manager, Medical
                       Nutritionals.
    Elected Corporate Officer -- 1993.

DANIEL O. STRUBLE**, 53

    1989 to present -- Vice President, Corporate Engineering.
    Elected Corporate Officer -- 1987.

ELLEN M. WALVOORD**, 54

    1989 to 1991 -- Director, Corporate Communications.
    1991 -- Vice President, Investor Relations.
    1991 to present -- Vice President, Investor Relations and Public Affairs.
    Elected Corporate Officer -- 1991.

JOSEF WENDLER, 44

    1989 to 1990 -- General Manager, Austria & Switzerland.
    1990 to 1992 -- Regional Director, Europe, Diagnostic Division.
    1992 to 1993 -- Divisional Vice President, Pacific, Asia, Africa.
    1993 to present -- Vice President, Pacific/ Asia /Africa Operations.
    Elected Corporate Officer -- 1993.

MILES D. WHITE, 38

    1989 to 1990 -- Director of  Marketing  for  the  U.S.,  Abbott  Diagnostics
                    Division.
    1990 -- Business  Unit  General Manager,  Physiological  Diagnostics, Abbott
            Diagnostics Division  and  Business  Unit  General  Manager,  Cancer
            Diagnostics.
    1990 to 1992 -- Divisional  Vice  President  and  General  Manager, Hospital
                    Laboratory Sector.
    1992 to 1993 -- Divisional Vice  President and  General Manager,  Diagnostic
                    Systems and Operations.
    1993 to present -- Vice President, Diagnostic Systems and Operations.
    Elected Corporate Officer -- 1993.

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DON G. WRIGHT**, 51

    1989 to present -- Vice   President,   Corporate   Quality   Assurance   and
                       Regulatory Affairs.
    Elected Corporate Officer -- 1988.

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** Pursuant to Item 401(b)  of Regulation S-K the  Company has identified  these
   persons as "executive officers" within the meaning of Item 401(b).

                                    PART II

ITEM 5.  MARKET FOR THE REGISTRANT'S COMMON EQUITY AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER
         MATTERS

PRINCIPAL MARKET

    The  principal market for the Company's common  shares is the New York Stock
Exchange. Shares are also listed on the Chicago and Pacific Stock Exchanges  and
are  traded on the Boston, Cincinnati, and Philadelphia Exchanges. Overseas, the
Company's shares are listed on the London Stock Exchange, Tokyo Stock  Exchange,
and the Swiss Stock Exchanges of Zurich, Basel, Geneva, and Lausanne.

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                MARKET PRICE PER SHARE
                                                                      ------------------------------------------
                                                                              1993                  1992
                                                                      --------------------  --------------------
                                                                        HIGH        LOW       HIGH        LOW
                                                                      ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
<S>                                                                   <C>        <C>        <C>        <C>
First Quarter.......................................................     30 7/8     22 5/8     34 1/8     29 3/8
Second Quarter......................................................     28 5/8     23 1/4         34     26 1/8
Third Quarter.......................................................     27 5/8     22 3/4     31 5/8     27 3/8
Fourth Quarter......................................................     30 1/8     26 1/8         33     26 1/2
</TABLE>

    Market  prices  are as  reported by  the New  York Stock  Exchange composite
transaction reporting system.

SHAREHOLDERS

    There were  82,947 shareholders  of record  of Abbott  common shares  as  of
December 31, 1993.

DIVIDENDS

    Quarterly  dividends of $.17 per  share and $.15 per  share were declared on
common shares in 1993 and 1992,  respectively after reflecting the May 29,  1992
stock split.

ITEM 6.  SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA

    Incorporated  herein by  reference for the  years 1989 through  1993 are the
applicable portions  of the  section captioned  "Summary of  Selected  Financial
Data" of the 1993 Annual Report.

ITEM 7.  MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS
         OF OPERATIONS

    Incorporated  herein by reference is management's discussion and analysis of
financial condition and results of operations for the years 1993, 1992, and 1991
found under the section captioned "Financial Review" of the 1993 Annual Report.

ITEM 8.  FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA

    Incorporated herein by reference are the portions of the 1993 Annual  Report
captioned   Consolidated  Balance  Sheet,   Consolidated  Statement  of  Income,
Consolidated Statement of  Cash Flows, Consolidated  Statement of  Shareholders'
Investment, Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements and Report of Independent
Public  Accountants (which contains the related  report of Arthur Andersen & Co.
dated January 14, 1994). Data relating to quarterly interim results is found  in
Note 8.

ITEM 9.  DISAGREEMENTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE

    None.

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                                    PART III

ITEM 10.  DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF THE REGISTRANT

    Incorporated  herein by  reference are "Information  Concerning Nominees for
Directors" and "Compliance with Section 16(a) of The Securities Exchange Act  of
1934"  found  in  the  1994 Abbott  Laboratories  Proxy  Statement  ("1994 Proxy
Statement"), which will be filed with the Commission on or about March 4, 1994.

ITEM 11.  EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

    The material  in  the 1994  Proxy  Statement under  the  heading  "Executive
Compensation,"  other  than the  Report of  the  Compensation Committee  and the
Performance Graph, are hereby incorporated by reference.

ITEM 12.  SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT

    Incorporated herein  by  reference  is  the text  found  under  the  caption
"Information Concerning Security Ownership" in the 1994 Proxy Statement.

ITEM 13.  CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS

    Incorporated herein by reference is that portion of the 1994 Proxy Statement
under the caption "Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation."

                                    PART IV

ITEM 14.  EXHIBITS, FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES, AND REPORTS ON FORM 8-K

  (a)  DOCUMENTS FILED AS PART OF THIS FORM 10-K.

    1.   FINANCIAL  STATEMENTS:  The  Consolidated Financial  Statements for the
years ended December 31, 1993, 1992, and  1991 and the related report of  Arthur
Andersen  & Co. dated January 14, 1994  appearing under the portions of the 1993
Annual Report captioned  Consolidated Balance Sheet,  Consolidated Statement  of
Earnings,  Consolidated  Statement  of  Cash  Flows,  Consolidated  Statement of
Shareholders' Investment, Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements and  Report
of  Independent Public Accountants, respectively,  are incorporated by reference
in response to  Item 14(a)1.  With the  exception of  the portions  of the  1993
Annual  Report specifically incorporated herein  by reference, such Report shall
not be deemed  filed as part  of this Annual  Report on Form  10-K or  otherwise
deemed  subject to the liabilities of Section  18 of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934.

    2.   FINANCIAL  STATEMENT  SCHEDULES:    The  required  financial  statement
schedules are found on the pages indicated below. These schedules should be read
in  conjunction with  the Consolidated Financial  Statements in  the 1993 Annual
Report:

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                                           PAGE NO./
SCHEDULES                                                                                                 EXHIBIT NO.
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  ---------------
<S>                                                                                                     <C>
Investment Securities Maturing After One Year (Schedule I)............................................            p. 18
Property and Equipment (Schedule V)...................................................................            p. 19
Accumulated Depreciation and Amortization of Property and Equipment (Schedule VI).....................            p. 20
Valuation and Qualifying Accounts (Schedule VIII).....................................................            p. 21
Short-term Borrowings (Schedule IX)...................................................................            p. 22
Supplementary Consolidated Statement of Earnings Information (Schedule X).............................            p. 23
Schedules II, III, IV, VII, XI, XII, and XIII are not submitted because they are not applicable or not
 required.
Supplemental Report of Independent Public Accountants.................................................        Exh. 23.1
Consent of Independent Public Accountants.............................................................        Exh. 23.2
Individual Financial Statements of the registrant have been omitted pursuant to Rule 3.05, paragraph
 (1) of Regulation S-X.
</TABLE>

    3.  EXHIBITS REQUIRED BY ITEM 601 OF REGULATION S-K:  The information called
for by this paragraph is incorporated  herein by reference to the Exhibit  Index
on pages 16 and 17 of this Form 10-K.

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<PAGE>

  (b)  REPORTS ON FORM 8-K DURING THE QUARTER ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1993:

       No  reports on Form 8-K were filed  during the quarter ended December 31,
       1993.

  (c)  EXHIBITS FILED (SEE EXHIBIT INDEX ON PAGES 16 AND 17).

  (D)  FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES FILED (SEE PAGES 18 THROUGH 23).

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<PAGE>
                                   SIGNATURES

    Pursuant  to  the requirements  of  Section 13  or  15(d) of  the Securities
Exchange Act of  1934, Abbott  Laboratories has duly  caused this  report to  be
signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

                                          ABBOTT LABORATORIES

                                          By /s/ DUANE L. BURNHAM
                                             Duane L. Burnham
                                             Chairman of the Board and
                                             Chief Executive Officer

                                             Date: February 11, 1994

    Pursuant  to the requirements  of the Securities Exchange  Act of 1934, this
report has  been signed  below by  the  following persons  on behalf  of  Abbott
Laboratories and in the capacities and on the dates indicated:

/s/ DUANE L. BURNHAM
Duane L. Burnham
Chairman of the Board,
Chief Executive Officer, and
Director of Abbott Laboratories
(principal executive officer)
Date: February 11, 1994

/s/ GARY P. COUGHLAN
Gary P. Coughlan
Senior Vice President, Finance and
Chief Financial Officer
(principal financial officer)
Date: February 11, 1994

/s/ THOMAS R. HODGSON
Thomas R. Hodgson
President, Chief Operating Officer,
and Director of Abbott Laboratories
Date: February 11, 1994

/s/ THEODORE A. OLSON
Theodore A. Olson
Vice President and Controller
(principal accounting officer)
Date: February 11, 1994

/s/ K. FRANK AUSTEN
K. Frank Austen, M.D.
Director of Abbott Laboratories
Date: February 11, 1994

/s/ H. LAURANCE FULLER
H. Laurance Fuller
Director of Abbott Laboratories
Date: February 11, 1994

/s/ BERNARD J. HAYHOE
Bernard J. Hayhoe
Director of Abbott Laboratories
Date: February 11, 1994

/s/ ALLEN F. JACOBSON
Allen F. Jacobson
Director of Abbot Laboratories
Date: February 11, 1994

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/s/ DAVID A. JONES
David A. Jones
Director of Abbott Laboratories
Date: February 11, 1994

/s/ BOONE POWELL, JR.
Boone Powell, Jr.
Director of Abbott Laboratories
Date: February 11, 1994

/s/ A. BARRY RAND
A. Barry Rand
Director of Abbott Laboratories
Date: February 11, 1994

/s/ W. ANN REYNOLDS
W. Ann Reynolds
Director of Abbott Laboratories
Date: February 11, 1994

/s/ WILLIAM D. SMITHBURG
William D. Smithburg
Director of Abbott Laboratories
Date: February 11, 1994

/s/ JOHN R. WALTER
John R. Walter
Director of Abbott Laboratories
Date: February 11, 1994

/s/ WILLIAM L. WEISS
William L. Weiss
Director of Abbott Laboratories
Date: February 11, 1994

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                                 EXHIBIT INDEX
                              ABBOTT LABORATORIES
                                 ANNUAL REPORT
                                   FORM 10-K
                                      1993

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
REG.S-K
EXHIBIT
TABLE
ITEM NO.
- ----------
<S>         <C>
  3.1       *   ARTICLES  OF INCORPORATION--ABBOTT LABORATORIES, FILED AS AN
                EXHIBIT (PAGES 22-30) TO THE ABBOTT LABORATORIES 1992 ANNUAL
                REPORT ON FORM 10-K.
  3.2       *   CORPORATE BYLAWS--ABBOTT LABORATORIES, FILED AS EXHIBIT 3 TO
                THE ABBOTT  LABORATORIES QUARTERLY  REPORT FOR  THE  QUARTER
                ENDED JUNE 30, 1993 ON FORM 10-Q.
 10             MATERIAL CONTRACTS.
 10.1       *   Supplemental  Plan--Abbott Laboratories  Extended Disability
                Plan, filed as an exhibit  (pages 50-51) to the 1992  Abbott
                Laboratories Annual Report on Form 10-K.
 10.2       *   The  Abbott Laboratories 1981 Incentive Stock Program, filed
                as an exhibit (pages 52-62) to the 1992 Abbott  Laboratories
                Annual Report on Form 10-K.
 10.3       *   The  Abbott Laboratories 1986 Incentive Stock Program, filed
                as an exhibit (pages 37-59) to the 1989 Abbott  Laboratories
                Annual Report on Form 10-K.
 10.4       *   The  Abbott Laboratories 1991 Incentive Stock Program, filed
                as  an   exhibit  (pages   128-149)  to   the  1990   Abbott
                Laboratories Annual Report on Form 10-K.
 10.5       *   Consulting  agreement  between  Abbott  Laboratories  and K.
                Frank Austen, M.D.  dated September  13, 1991,  filed as  an
                exhibit (pages 63-66) to the 1992 Abbott Laboratories Annual
                Report on Form 10-K.
 10.6       *   Indenture  dated  as  of  October  1,  1993  between  Abbott
                Laboratories and  Harris Trust  and Savings  Bank, filed  as
                Exhibit  4.1 to the Abbott Laboratories Quarterly Report for
                the Quarter ended September 30, 1993 on Form 10-Q.
 10.7           Abbott Laboratories 401(k) Supplemental Plan.
 10.8           Abbott Laboratories Supplemental Pension Plan.
 10.9           The 1986 Abbott Laboratories Management Incentive Plan.
 10.10          Abbott Laboratories Non-Employee Directors' Fee Plan.
 11             CALCULATION OF FULLY DILUTED EARNINGS PER SHARE.
 12             COMPUTATION OF RATIO OF EARNINGS TO FIXED CHARGES.
 13             THE PORTIONS OF  THE ABBOTT LABORATORIES  ANNUAL REPORT  FOR
                THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1993 CAPTIONED FINANCIAL REVIEW,
                CONSOLIDATED   BALANCE  SHEET,   CONSOLIDATED  STATEMENT  OF
                EARNINGS, CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS, CONSOLIDATED
                STATEMENT OF SHAREHOLDERS' INVESTMENT, NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED
                FINANCIAL   STATEMENTS,   REPORT   OF   INDEPENDENT   PUBLIC
                ACCOUNTANTS,  AND  THE  APPLICABLE PORTIONS  OF  THE SECTION
                CAPTIONED SUMMARY  OF  FINANCIAL  DATA FOR  THE  YEARS  1989
                THROUGH 1993.
</TABLE>

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<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
REG.S-K
EXHIBIT
TABLE
ITEM NO.
- ----------
 21             SUBSIDIARIES OF ABBOTT LABORATORIES.
<S>         <C>
 23.1           SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT OF INDEPENDENT PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS.
 23.2           CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS.
                THE  1994 ABBOTT LABORATORIES PROXY  STATEMENT WILL BE FILED
                WITH THE COMMISSION UNDER SEPARATE  COVER ON OR ABOUT  MARCH
                4, 1994.
</TABLE>

- ---------
* Incorporated herein by reference.

    The  Company  will  furnish  copies  of  any  of  the  above  exhibits  to a
shareholder  upon   written  request   to   the  Corporate   Secretary,   Abbott
Laboratories, One Abbott Park Road, Abbott Park, Illinois 60064-3500.

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                      ABBOTT LABORATORIES AND SUBSIDIARIES
           SCHEDULE I--INVESTMENT SECURITIES MATURING AFTER ONE YEAR
                               DECEMBER 31, 1993
                             (DOLLARS IN THOUSANDS)

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                             PRINCIPAL
                                                                             AMOUNT OF                  MARKET
NAME OF ISSUE AND TITLE OF EACH ISSUE                                        SECURITY       COST         VALUE
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------  -----------  -----------  -----------
<S>                                                                         <C>          <C>          <C>
Time deposits and certificates of deposit due 1995 through 1998 at
 interest rates from 7.80% to 9.50%.......................................   $  34,500   $    34,500  $    38,189
Debt obligations issued or guaranteed by various
 governments or government agencies:
  Mortgage Backed Certificates, guaranteed by Government
   National Mortgage Association, due 2003 through 2012 at
   interest rates from 7.25% to 16.00%....................................      81,309        82,058       86,765
  Other Notes, Certificates, and Debentures due 1995
   through 2001 at interest rates from 2.70% to 14.375%...................      60,554        60,554       60,595
                                                                            -----------  -----------  -----------
Total debt obligations issued or guaranteed by various
 governments or government agencies.......................................     141,863       142,612      147,360
Corporate debt obligations, due 1995 to 2001 at interest rates
 from 2.763% to 8.875%....................................................      44,703        44,703       46,330
                                                                            -----------  -----------  -----------
Total Investment Securities Maturing after One Year.......................   $ 221,066   $   221,815  $   231,879
                                                                            -----------  -----------  -----------
                                                                            -----------  -----------  -----------
</TABLE>

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                      ABBOTT LABORATORIES AND SUBSIDIARIES
                       SCHEDULE V--PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT
              FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1993, 1992 AND 1991
                             (DOLLARS IN THOUSANDS)

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                     BALANCE AT
                                     BEGINNING                     RETIREMENTS   TRANSLATION  BALANCE AT
CLASSIFICATION                        OF YEAR       ADDITIONS      AND SALES     ADJUSTMENTS  END OF YEAR
- ----------------------------------   ----------   -------------    ----------    ---------    -----------
<S>                                  <C>          <C>              <C>           <C>          <C>
Year Ended December 31, 1993:
  Land............................   $  120,617   $   15,193       $      --     $  1,826     $   137,636
  Buildings (including leasehold
   and
    land improvements)............    1,064,974      209,034          (4,054)      (8,334)      1,261,620
  Equipment.......................    3,735,259      645,739        (145,617)     (66,102)      4,169,279
  Construction in Progress........      576,291       82,766(a)       (5,865)        (581)        652,611
                                     ----------   -------------    ----------    ---------    -----------
                                     $5,497,141   $  952,732       $(155,536)    $(73,191)    $ 6,221,146
                                     ----------   -------------    ----------    ---------    -----------
                                     ----------   -------------    ----------    ---------    -----------
Year Ended December 31, 1992:
  Land............................   $   64,984   $   59,016       $  (2,934)    $   (449)    $   120,617
  Buildings (including leasehold
    and land improvements)........      950,810      130,844          (8,754)      (7,926)      1,064,974
  Equipment.......................    3,304,062      647,640        (166,162)     (50,281)      3,735,259
  Construction in Progress........      465,367      169,747(a)      (53,812)      (5,011)        576,291
                                     ----------   -------------    ----------    ---------    -----------
                                     $4,785,223   $1,007,247       $(231,662)    $(63,667)    $ 5,497,141
                                     ----------   -------------    ----------    ---------    -----------
                                     ----------   -------------    ----------    ---------    -----------
Year Ended December 31, 1991:
  Land............................   $   64,907   $    1,954       $  (1,093)    $   (784)    $    64,984
  Buildings (including leasehold
   and
    land improvements)............      912,256       50,632          (4,068)      (8,010)        950,810
  Equipment.......................    3,016,483      475,462        (144,612)     (43,271)      3,304,062
  Construction in Progress........      263,904      204,709(a)       (2,496)        (750)        465,367
                                     ----------   -------------    ----------    ---------    -----------
                                     $4,257,550   $  732,757       $(152,269)    $(52,815)    $ 4,785,223
                                     ----------   -------------    ----------    ---------    -----------
                                     ----------   -------------    ----------    ---------    -----------
<FN>
- ---------
(a) Net of transfers to Land, Buildings, and Equipment.
</TABLE>

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<PAGE>
                      ABBOTT LABORATORIES AND SUBSIDIARIES
             SCHEDULE VI--ACCUMULATED DEPRECIATION AND AMORTIZATION
                           OF PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT
              FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1993, 1992 AND 1991
                             (DOLLARS IN THOUSANDS)

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                        ADDITIONS
                                         BALANCE AT     CHARGED TO
                                          BEGINNING     COSTS AND     RETIREMENTS    TRANSLATION    BALANCE AT
CLASSIFICATION                             OF YEAR       EXPENSES      AND SALES     ADJUSTMENTS    END OF YEAR
- --------------------------------------  -------------  ------------  -------------  -------------  -------------
<S>                                     <C>            <C>           <C>            <C>            <C>
Year Ended December 31, 1993:
  Buildings (including leasehold and
    land improvements)................  $     327,876   $   44,178    $    (3,274)   $    (2,219)  $     366,561
  Equipment...........................      2,070,027      439,903       (128,047)       (38,289)      2,343,594
                                        -------------  ------------  -------------  -------------  -------------
                                        $   2,397,903   $  484,081    $  (131,321)   $   (40,508)  $   2,710,155
                                        -------------  ------------  -------------  -------------  -------------
                                        -------------  ------------  -------------  -------------  -------------
Year Ended December 31, 1992:
  Buildings (including leasehold and
    land improvements)................  $     292,381   $   40,485    $    (2,355)   $    (2,635)  $     327,876
  Equipment...........................      1,830,759      387,297       (117,619)       (30,410)      2,070,027
                                        -------------  ------------  -------------  -------------  -------------
                                        $   2,123,140   $  427,782    $  (119,974)   $   (33,045)  $   2,397,903
                                        -------------  ------------  -------------  -------------  -------------
                                        -------------  ------------  -------------  -------------  -------------
Year Ended December 31, 1991:
  Buildings (including leasehold and
    land improvements)................  $     260,141   $   35,258    $    (1,074)   $    (1,944)  $     292,381
  Equipment...........................      1,621,627      343,759       (109,439)       (25,188)      1,830,759
                                        -------------  ------------  -------------  -------------  -------------
                                        $   1,881,768   $  379,017    $  (110,513)   $   (27,132)  $   2,123,140
                                        -------------  ------------  -------------  -------------  -------------
                                        -------------  ------------  -------------  -------------  -------------
</TABLE>

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<PAGE>
                      ABBOTT LABORATORIES AND SUBSIDIARIES
                SCHEDULE VIII--VALUATION AND QUALIFYING ACCOUNTS
             FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1993, 1992, AND 1991
                             (DOLLARS IN THOUSANDS)

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                       AMOUNTS
                                                         BALANCE AT    PROVISIONS    CHARGED OFF,
ALLOWANCES FOR DOUBTFUL                                  BEGINNING     CHARGED TO       NET OF       BALANCE AT
ACCOUNTS AND SALES DEDUCTIONS                             OF YEAR      INCOME (A)     RECOVERIES     END OF YEAR
- ------------------------------------------------------  ------------  ------------  --------------  -------------
<S>                                                     <C>           <C>           <C>             <C>
1993..................................................   $  106,857    $   29,441    $    (19,373)   $   116,925
                                                        ------------  ------------  --------------  -------------
                                                        ------------  ------------  --------------  -------------
1992..................................................   $   82,244    $   41,598    $    (16,985)   $   106,857
                                                        ------------  ------------  --------------  -------------
                                                        ------------  ------------  --------------  -------------
1991..................................................   $   65,455    $   32,750    $    (15,961)   $    82,244
                                                        ------------  ------------  --------------  -------------
                                                        ------------  ------------  --------------  -------------
<FN>
- ---------
(a) Represents  provisions related to  allowances for doubtful  accounts and the
    net change in the allowances for sales deductions.
</TABLE>

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<PAGE>
                      ABBOTT LABORATORIES AND SUBSIDIARIES
                       SCHEDULE IX SHORT-TERM BORROWINGS
              FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1993, 1992 AND 1991
                             (DOLLARS IN THOUSANDS)

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                1993         1992         1991
                                                                             -----------  -----------  -----------
<S>                                                                          <C>          <C>          <C>
Domestic:
  Average Borrowings During the Year(a)....................................  $   836,888  $   581,171  $   409,521
  Weighted Average Interest Rate During the Year(b)........................         4.0%         4.4%         6.8%
  Highest Level of Borrowings at any Month-end During the Year.............  $   981,000  $   779,000  $   452,000
  Weighted Average Interest Rate at December 31............................         3.6%         4.0%         6.0%
  Borrowings at December 31(c).............................................  $   750,000  $   768,000  $   399,000
International:
  Average Borrowings During the Year(d)....................................  $   153,092  $   175,582  $   189,979
  Weighted Average Interest Rate During the Year(b)........................        11.6%        14.4%        17.2%
  Highest Level of Borrowings at any Month-end During the Year.............  $   196,955  $   218,526  $   275,871
  Weighted Average Interest Rate at December 31............................         8.2%        10.6%        17.7%
  Borrowings at December 31(e).............................................  $    91,514  $   141,116  $   124,526
<FN>
- ---------
(a) Calculated by weighting the average daily balances for the year.
(b) Calculated by dividing  interest expense  by average  borrowings during  the
    year.
(c) Consists principally of commercial paper.
(d) Represents  the sum of the beginning  of year and month-end balances divided
    by 13.
(e) Consists principally of bank loans.
</TABLE>

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<PAGE>
                      ABBOTT LABORATORIES AND SUBSIDIARIES
                     SCHEDULE X-SUPPLEMENTARY CONSOLIDATED
                       STATEMENT OF EARNINGS INFORMATION
             FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1993, 1992, AND 1991
                             (DOLLARS IN THOUSANDS)

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                 CHARGED TO COSTS AND EXPENSES
                                                                             -------------------------------------
ITEM                                                                            1993         1992         1991
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------  -----------  -----------  -----------
<S>                                                                          <C>          <C>          <C>
Maintenance and Repairs....................................................  $   200,197  $   179,771  $   161,721
                                                                             -----------  -----------  -----------
                                                                             -----------  -----------  -----------
Advertising................................................................  $   143,902  $   141,898  $   172,386
                                                                             -----------  -----------  -----------
                                                                             -----------  -----------  -----------
Royalties..................................................................  $   107,356  $   104,085  $   109,692
                                                                             -----------  -----------  -----------
                                                                             -----------  -----------  -----------
</TABLE>

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<PAGE>
                                                               EXHIBIT 10.7

                                                           Adopted by Board of
                                                           Directors on 9/10/93


                  ABBOTT LABORATORIES 401(K) SUPPLEMENTAL PLAN


                                    SECTION 1

                                  INTRODUCTION

     1.1  PURPOSE.  This Abbott Laboratories 401(k) Supplemental Plan (the
"Plan") is being established by Abbott Laboratories ("Abbott") to provide
eligible management employees of Abbott an opportunity to accumulate capital for
their retirement or other termination of employment in excess of the
contributions allowed under the Abbott Laboratories Stock Retirement Plan
("Stock Plan").

     1.2  EFFECTIVE DATE.  The Plan shall be effective as of October 1, 1993.

     1.3  ADMINISTRATION.  The Plan shall be administered by the Compensation
Committee (the "Committee") appointed by the Board of Directors of Abbott.


                                    SECTION 2

                          ELIGIBILITY AND PARTICIPATION

     2.1  PERSONS ELIGIBLE TO PARTICIPATE.  Participation in the Plan shall be
limited to employees who are serving as corporate officers of Abbott as of
October 1, 1993 or who become corporate officers thereafter.  The term
"corporate officer" for purposes of the Plan shall mean an individual elected an
officer of Abbott by its Board of Directors (or designated as such for purposes
of the Plan by the Committee), but shall not include assistant officers.  In the
event an employee should cease to be a corporate officer of Abbott due to
demotion, termination of employment or otherwise, such employee shall cease to
be eligible to participate in the Plan and any contributions then being made on
behalf of such employee shall immediately cease.

     2.2  PARTICIPANT.  An eligible employee may elect to participate in the
Plan by electing to have contributions made on the employee's behalf as provided
in Section 5.


                                    SECTION 3

                             EMPLOYEE CONTRIBUTIONS

     3.1  ALLOWABLE CONTRIBUTIONS.  An eligible employee may elect to have his
employer make "pre-tax contributions" on his behalf in an amount not greater
than 18% in total of his compensation in any calendar year for services rendered
to his employer.  A pre-tax contribution made by an employer on behalf of a
participant shall reduce the participant's compensation at the time of payment
of such compensation.  Each election hereunder shall be in writing, and shall be
in multiples of 1% of compensation.

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                                      - 2 -



     3.2  COMPENSATION.  A participant's "compensation" shall have the same
meaning as that term is used in Subsection 7-2 of the Stock Plan.

     3.3  MAXIMUM EMPLOYEE CONTRIBUTIONS.  Notwithstanding Subsection 3.1, in no
event shall the sum of:

     (a)  the participant's total contributions, pre-tax contributions,
          supplemental deposits and supplemental pre-tax contributions made
          under the Stock Plan; plus

     (b)  the participant's total pre-tax contributions made under the Plan;

for any calendar year, exceed 18% of the employee's compensation for such year.
In the event the limitation described in this subsection 3.3 would be exceeded
for any participant, the participant's pre-tax contributions made under this
Plan shall be reduced until the limit is not exceeded.


                                    SECTION 4

                             EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTIONS

     For the calendar year ending December 31, 1993, and for each subsequent
calendar year, Abbott shall make a contribution on behalf of each participant in
the Plan who makes pre-tax contributions ("basic contributions") under the Plan
during such year at the rate of two percent (2%) of compensation in excess of,
for calendar year 1993, Two Hundred Thousand Dollars ($200,000), and for
calendar years subsequent to 1993, the limit in effect for such year under
Section 40l(a)(17), Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.  Such employer
contribution shall be in an amount equal to the contribution the participant
would have received under subsection 8-3 of the Stock Plan with respect to such
basic contributions had such basic contributions been made under subsection 7-1
of the Stock Plan.  A participant who suspends his basic contributions to the
Plan during any calendar year shall receive an employer contribution under this
Section 4 based on the basic contributions made by the participant during such
year.

     A contribution made by a participant under subsection 5.4 shall be
considered a basic contribution for purposes of this Section 4 to the extent it
includes contributions at the rate of two percent (2%) of compensation for 1993
in excess of Two Hundred Thousand Dollars ($200,000).

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                                      - 3 -



                                    SECTION 5

                                    ELECTIONS

     5.1 ANNUAL ELECTIONS REQUIRED.  Except as provided in subsections 5.2 and
5.3, a participant shall elect to make pre-tax contributions with respect to
compensation earned in any calendar year, prior to the first day of such
calendar year.  Each such election shall be in writing, shall be filed with the
Committee, shall be effective only for the calendar year for which made and,
except as provided in subsection 5.2, shall be irrevocable.  Notwithstanding
subsection 5.2, an employee who fails to make an election under this subsection
5.1 for a calendar year may not contribute to the Plan during such year.

     5.2  LIMITED CHANGES.  A participant who has elected under subsection 5.1
to make pre-tax contributions for any calendar year, may increase or decrease
such pre-tax contributions during such calendar year by filing a written
election with the Committee.  A participant may make no more than two such
elections under this subsection 5.2 during such calendar year.  Any election
filed under this subsection 5.2 shall become effective for compensation earned
no earlier then the first payroll period commencing after receipt of the
election by the Committee.  Any election filed under this subsection 5.2 shall
remain in effect for compensation earned during the remainder of such calendar
year unless changed by a subsequent election under this subsection 5.2.

     5.3  NEWLY ELIGIBLE EMPLOYEES.  A newly eligible employee (including
employees who become eligible due to the adoption of the Plan) shall make the
election described in subsection 5.1 within thirty (30) days of the date he is
notified of his eligibility to participate in the Plan.  Any such election shall
become effective for compensation earned no earlier then the first payroll
period commencing after receipt of the election by the Committee and shall
remain in effect for the remainder of the then current calendar year unless
changed as provided in subsection 5.2.

     5.4  SPECIAL CONTRIBUTION FOR 1993.  Employees who are serving as corporate
officers of Abbott and who have established "Grantor Trusts" under the 1986
Abbott Laboratories Management Incentive Plan ("MIP") as of October 1, 1993, may
elect to make a lump-sum contribution based on compensation earned during the
period of January 1, 1993 through September 30, 1993 (the "Make-up Period") by
filing an election with the Administrator and tendering payment in cash to such
Grantor Trust of the amount of the contribution, not later than October 31,
1993.  Any such contribution shall not exceed the maximum contribution allowed
under subsection 3.3 based on the employee's Stock Plan contributions made, and
compensation earned, during the Make-Up Period.

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                                      - 4 -



     5.5  GRANTOR TRUST ELECTION.  As part of the annual elections described in
subsection 5.1, each participant may also elect to have his pre-tax and employer
contributions for such year deposited in a "Grantor Trust" established by the
participant under the circumstances and on the terms described in subsection
6.1.  Any such election shall be irrevocable and shall apply to all pre-tax
contributions made during, and employer contributions made for, such calendar
year on behalf of such participant.  If the participant fails to make an
election under this subsection 5.5, the participant's pre-tax contributions made
during, and employer contribution made for, such calendar year shall be retained
by Abbott and shall not be deposited in a grantor trust in the future.


                                    SECTION 6

                   FUNDING EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYEE CONTRIBUTIONS

     6.1  CONTRIBUTIONS TO BE DEPOSITED IN GRANTOR TRUSTS.  Each participant's
pre-tax contributions and employer contributions which the participant has filed
an election under subsection 5.5 shall be retained by Abbott and credited to a
Grantor Trust Account established under subsection 7.1.  As soon as practicable
after the date the value of the participant's Grantor Trust Account exceeds
Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000), the entire value of such account, less the
approximate aggregate federal, state and local individual income taxes
(determined under subsection 8.5) attributable to the Grantor Trust Account,
shall be deposited in a "Grantor Trust" established by the participant, provided
such trust is in a form which the Committee determines is substantially similar
to the trust attached to this Plan as Exhibit A.  The appropriate aggregate
federal, state and local individual income taxes attributable to the Grantor
Trust Account shall be paid directly to the participant.

     6.2  CONTRIBUTIONS TO BE RETAINED BY ABBOTT.  Each participant's pre-tax
contributions and employer contributions for which the participant has not filed
an election under subsection 5.5 shall be retained by Abbott and credited to a
Deferred Account established under subsection 7.1.

     6.3  AFTER ESTABLISHMENT OF GRANTOR TRUST.  After a Grantor Trust has been
established by a participant under subsection 6.1, all pre-tax contributions and
employer contributions made thereafter for which the participant has filed an
election under Subsection 5.5, shall be deposited in such Grantor Trust (less
the approximate aggregate federal, state and local individual income taxes
(determined under subsection 8.5) attributable to such contributions).  Such
deposits shall be made as soon as practicable after the last complete payroll
period of the calendar quarter in which the contributions are made.

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                                      - 5 -



     6.4  FUNDING SPECIAL CONTRIBUTION FOR 1993.  The full amount of any
contribution made by a participant under subsection 5.4 shall be deposited in
the participant's Grantor Trust established under subsection 5.1 of the MIP.
Such participant's Trust Account established under subsection 5.2 of the MIP
shall be credited with the sum of (a) the amount of such contribution, plus (b)
the amount of the approximate aggregate federal, state and local individual
income taxes (determined under subsection 6.7 of the MIP) attributable to the
sum of paragraph (a) and (b) of this subsection 6.4.  Thereafter, such
contribution shall be treated for all purposes of the MIP as if it were an
allocation paid under subsection 5.1 (b) of the MIP.



                                    SECTION 7

                                   ACCOUNTING

     7.1  SEPARATE ACCOUNTS.  The Committee shall maintain two separate
Accounts, a "Deferred Account" and a "Trust Account" in the name of each
participant.  The Deferred Account shall be comprised of any pre-tax
contributions made on behalf of the participant under subsection 3.1 and any
employer contributions made on behalf of the participant under Section 4, for
which the participant has not made an election under subsection 5.5, and any
adjustments made pursuant to subsection 7.2.  The "Trust Account" shall be
comprised of any pre-tax contributions made on behalf of the participant under
subsection 3.1 and any employer contributions made on behalf of the participant
under Section 4, for which the participant has made an election under subsection
5.5, and any adjustments made pursuant to subsection 7.3.

     7.2  ADJUSTMENT OF DEFERRED ACCOUNTS.  As of the end of each calendar year,
the Administrator shall adjust each participant's Deferred Account as follows:

     (a)  FIRST, charge an amount equal to any payments made to the participant
          during that year pursuant to subsections 7.9 or 7.10;

     (b)  NEXT, credit an amount equal to any pre-tax contributions and employer
          contributions made on behalf of such participant for that year for
          which the participant has not made an election under subsection 5.5;
          and

     (c)  FINALLY, credit an amount equal to the Interest Accrual earned for
          that year pursuant to subsection 7.4.

     7.3  ADJUSTMENT OF TRUST ACCOUNTS.  As of the end of each calendar year,
the Administrator shall adjust each participant's Trust Account as follows:

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                                      - 6 -



     (a)  FIRST, charge an amount equal to the product of:  (i) any payments
          made to the participant during that year from the participant's
          Grantor Trust (other than distributions of trust earnings in excess of
          the Net Interest Accrual authorized by the administrator of the trust
          to provide for the Tax Gross Up under subsection 8.4); multiplied by
          (ii) a fraction, the numerator of which is the balance in the
          participant's Trust Account as of the end of the prior calendar year
          and the denominator of which is the balance of the participant's
          Grantor Trust (as determined by the administrator of the trust) as
          of that same date;

     (b)  NEXT, credit an amount equal to any pre-tax contributions and employer
          contributions made on behalf of the participant for that year for
          which the participant has made an election under subsection 5.5;

     (c)  FINALLY, credit an amount equal to the Interest Accrual earned for
          that year pursuant to subsection 7.4.

     7.4  INTEREST ACCRUALS ON ACCOUNTS.  As of the end of each calendar year, a
participant's Deferred Account and Trust Account shall be credited with interest
equal to:  (a) the average of the prime rates of interest charged by the two
largest banks located in the City of Chicago on loans made by them as of January
1 and the end of each month of the calendar year plus (b) two hundred
twenty-five (225) basis points.  Such interest shall be credited on the
conditions established by the Committee.

     7.5  GUARANTEED RATE PAYMENTS.  In addition to any employer contribution
made on behalf of a participant for any calendar year pursuant to section 4,
Abbott shall also make a payment to a participant's Grantor Trust (a "Guaranteed
Rate Payment") for any year in which the net earnings of such trust do not equal
or exceed the participant's Net Interest Accrual for that year.  A participant's
"Net Interest Accrual" for a year is an amount equal to: (a) the Interest
Accrual credited to the participant's Trust Account for that year; less (b) the
product of (i) the amount of such Interest Accrual, multiplied by (ii) the
aggregate of the federal, state and local individual income tax rates
(determined in accordance with subsection 8.5).  The Guaranteed Rate Payment
shall equal the difference between the participant's Net Interest Accrual and
the net earnings of the participant's Grantor Trust for the year, and shall be
paid within 90 days of the end of the calendar year.

     7.6  DESIGNATION OF BENEFICIARIES.  Subject to the conditions and
limitations set forth below, each participant, and after a participant's death,
each primary beneficiary designated by a participant in accordance with the
provisions of this subsection 7.6, shall have the right from time to time to
designate a primary beneficiary or beneficiaries and, successive or contingent
beneficiary or beneficiaries to receive unpaid amounts from the

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                                      - 7 -



participant's Deferred Account under the Plan.  Beneficiaries may be a natural
person or persons or a fiduciary, such as a trustee of a trust or the legal
representative of an estate.  Any such designation shall take effect upon the
death of the participant or such beneficiary, as the case may be, or in the case
of any fiduciary beneficiary, upon the termination of all of its duties (other
than the duty to dispose of the right to receive amounts remaining to be paid
under the Plan).  The conditions and limitations relating to the designation of
beneficiaries are as follows:

     (a)  A nonfiduciary beneficiary shall have the right to designate a further
          beneficiary or beneficiaries only if the original participant or the
          next preceding primary beneficiary, as the case may be, shall have
          expressly so provided in writing; and

     (b)  A fiduciary beneficiary shall designate as a further beneficiary or
          beneficiaries only those persons or other fiduciaries who are entitled
          to receive the amounts payable from the participant's account under
          the trust or estate of which it is a fiduciary.

Any beneficiary designation or grant of any power to any beneficiary under this
subsection may be exercised only by an instrument in writing, executed by the
person making the designation or granting such power and filed with the
Secretary of Abbott during such person's lifetime or prior to the termination of
a fiduciary's duties.  If a deceased participant or a deceased nonfiduciary
beneficiary who had the right to designate a beneficiary as provided above dies
without having designated a further beneficiary, or if no beneficiary designated
as provided above is living or qualified and acting, the Committee, in its
discretion, may direct distribution of the amount remaining from time to time to
either:

     (i)   any one or more or all of the next of kin (including the surviving
           spouse) of the participant or the deceased beneficiary, as the case
           may be, and in such proportions as the Committee determines; or

     (ii)  the legal representative of the estate of the deceased participant or
           deceased beneficiary as the case may be.

     7.7  NON-ASSIGNABILITY AND FACILITY OF PAYMENT.  Amounts payable to
participants and their beneficiaries under the Plan are not in any way subject
to their debts and other obligations, and may not be voluntarily or
involuntarily sold, transferred or assigned; provided that the preceding
provisions of this section shall not be construed as restricting in any way a
designation right granted to a beneficiary pursuant to the terms of subsection
7.6.  When a participant or the beneficiary of a participant is under legal
disability, or in the Committee's opinion is in any way incapacitated so as to
be unable to manage his or her financial

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                                      - 8 -



affairs, the Committee may direct that payments shall be made to the
participant's or beneficiary's legal representative, or to a relative or friend
of the participant or beneficiary for the benefit of the participant or
beneficiary, or the Committee may direct the payment or distribution for the
benefit of the participant or beneficiary in any manner that the Committee
determines.

     7.8  PAYER OF AMOUNTS ALLOCATED TO PARTICIPANTS.  Any employer contribution
made on behalf of a participant in the Plan and any interest credited thereto
(and to other contributions) will be paid by the employer (or such employer's
successor) by whom the participant was employed during the calendar year for
which any amount was allocated, and for that purpose, if a participant shall
have been employed by two or more employers during any calendar year the amount
allocated under this Plan for that year shall be an obligation of each of the
respective employers in proportion to the respective amounts of compensation
paid by each of them in that calendar year.

     7.9  MANNER OF PAYMENT.  Subject to subsection 7.10, a participant shall
elect the timing and manner of payment of each portion of his Deferred Account
attributable to contributions made for any calendar year, at the time of his
election for such calendar year under subsection 5.1.  Notwithstanding
subsection 5.2, any election made under this subsection 7.10 shall be
irrevocable as to that portion of the Deferred Account to which the election
relates.  The participant may select a payment method from any of the following
alternatives:

     (a)  Payment in a lump-sum as soon as practicable following the
          participant's retirement or other termination of employment; or

     (b)  Payment under any method allowed by the Committee for deferred
          accounts under the MIP.

     7.10  PAYMENT UPON TERMINATION FOLLOWING CHANGE IN CONTROL.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of the Plan, if employment of any
participant with Abbott and its subsidiaries should terminate for any reason
within five (5) years after the date of a Change in Control, the aggregate
unpaid balance of the participant's Deferred Account and Trust Account, shall
be paid to the participant in a lump sum within thirty (30) days following the
date of such termination.

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     7.11  CHANGE IN CONTROL.  A "Change in Control" shall be deemed to have
occurred on the earliest of the following dates:

     (i)    The date any entity or person (including a "group" as defined in
            Section 13(d)(3) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the
            "Exchange Act")) shall have become the beneficial owner of, or shall
            have obtained voting control over thirty percent (30%) or more of
            the outstanding common shares of Abbott;

     (ii)   The date the shareholders of Abbott approve a definitive agreement
            (A) to merge or consolidate Abbott with or into another corporation,
            in which Abbott is not the continuing or surviving corporation or
            pursuant to which any common shares of Abbott would be converted
            into cash, securities or other property of another corporation,
            other than a merger of Abbott in which holders of common shares
            immediately prior to the merger have the same proportionate
            ownership of common stock of the surviving corporation immediately
            after the merger as immediately before, or (B) to sell or otherwise
            dispose of substantially all the assets of Abbott; or

     (iii)  The date there shall have been a change in a majority of the Board
            of Directors of Abbott within a twelve (12) month period unless the
            nomination for election by Abbott's shareholders of each new
            director was approved by the vote of two-thirds of the directors
            then still in office who were in office at the beginning of the
            twelve (12) month period.

     7.12  PROHIBITION AGAINST AMENDMENT.  The provisions of subsections 7.10,
7.11 and this subsection 7.12 may not be amended or deleted, nor superseded by
any other provision of this Plan, during the period beginning on the date of a
Change in Control and ending on the date five (5) years following such Change in
Control.


                                    SECTION 8

                                  MISCELLANEOUS

     8.1  RULES.  The Committee may establish such rules and regulations as it
may consider necessary or desirable for the effective and efficient
administration of the Plan.

     8.2  TAXES.  Any employer shall be entitled, if necessary or desirable, to
pay, or withhold the amount of any federal, state or local tax, attributable to
any amounts payable by it under the Plan after giving the person entitled to
receive such amount

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                                     - 10 -



notice as far in advance as practicable, and may defer making payment of any
amount with respect to which any such tax question may be pending unless and
until indemnified to its satisfaction.

     8.3  RIGHTS OF PARTICIPANTS.  Employment rights of participants with Abbott
and its subsidiaries shall not be enlarged or affected by reason of
establishment of or inclusion as a participant in the Plan.  Nothing contained
in the Plan shall require Abbott or any subsidiary to segregate or earmark any
assets, funds or property for the purpose of payment of any amounts which may
have been deferred.  The Deferred and Trust Accounts established pursuant to
subsection 7.1 are for the convenience of the administration of the Plan and no
trust relationship with respect to such Accounts is intended or should be
implied.  Participant's rights shall be limited to payment to them at the time
or times and in such amounts as are contemplated by the Plan.  Any decision made
by the Committee which is within his sole and uncontrolled discretion, shall be
conclusive and binding upon all persons whomsoever.

     8.4  TAX GROSS UP.  In addition to the employer contribution provided under
Section 4, each participant (or, if the participant is deceased, the beneficiary
designated under the participant's Grantor Trust) shall be entitled to a Tax
Gross Up payment for each year there is a balance in his Trust Account.  The
"Tax Gross Up" shall approximate: (a) the amount necessary to compensate the
participant (or beneficiary) for the net increase in the participant's (or
beneficiary's) federal, state and local income taxes as a result of the
inclusion in his taxable income of the income of the participant's Grantor Trust
and any Guaranteed Rate Payment for that year; less (b) any distribution to the
participant (or beneficiary) of his Grantor Trust's net earnings for that year;
plus (c) an amount necessary to compensate the participant (or beneficiary) for
the net increase in the taxes described in (a) above as a result of the
inclusion in his taxable income of any payment made pursuant to this subsection
8.4.  Payment of the Tax Gross Up shall be made by the employers (in such
proportions as Abbott shall designate) directly from their general corporate
assets.

     8.5  INCOME TAX ASSUMPTIONS.  For purposes of Sections 7 and 8, a
participant's federal income tax rate shall be deemed to be the highest marginal
rate of federal individual income tax in effect in the calendar year in which a
calculation under those Sections is to be made, and state and local tax rates
shall be deemed to be the highest marginal rates of individual income tax in
effect in the state and locality of the participant's residence on the date such
a calculation is made, net of any federal tax benefits.

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     8.6  GENDER.  For purposes of the Plan, words in the masculine gender shall
include the feminine and neuter genders, the singular shall include the plural
and the plural shall include the singular.

     8.7  MANNER OF ACTION BY COMMITTEE.  A majority of the members of the
Committee qualified to act on any particular question may act by meeting or by
writing signed without meeting, and may execute any instrument or document
required or delegate to one of its members authority to sign.  The Committee
from time to time may delegate the performance of certain ministerial functions
in connection with the Plan, such as the keeping of records, to such person or
persons as the Committee may select.  Except as otherwise expressly provided in
the Plan, the costs of administration of the Plan will be paid by Abbott.  Any
notice required to be given to, or any document required to be filed with the
Committee, will be properly given or filed if mailed or delivered in writing to
the Secretary of Abbott.

     8.8  RELIANCE UPON ADVICE.  The Board of Directors and the Committee may
rely upon any information or advice furnished to it by any Officer of Abbott or
by Abbott's independent auditors, or other consultants, and shall be fully
protected in relying upon such information or advice.  No member of the Board of
Directors or the Committee shall be liable for any act or failure to act on
their part, excepting only any acts done or omitted to be done in bad faith, nor
shall they be liable for any act or failure to act of any other member.


                                    SECTION 9

                      AMENDMENT, TERMINATION AND CHANGE OF
                         CONDITIONS RELATING TO PAYMENTS

     The Plan will be effective from its effective date until terminated by the
Board of Directors.  The Board of Directors reserves the right to amend the Plan
from time to time and to terminate the Plan at any time.  No such amendment or
any termination of the Plan shall reduce any fixed or contingent obligations
which shall have arisen under the Plan prior to the date of such amendment or
termination.

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                                                                 EXHIBIT A

                       IRREVOCABLE GRANTOR TRUST AGREEMENT


     THIS AGREEMENT, made this ______  day of ______________________, _____, by
and between ___________________________ of ________________________, Illinois
(the "grantor"), and The Northern Trust Company located at Chicago, Illinois, as
trustee (the "trustee"),


                                WITNESSETH THAT:

     WHEREAS, the grantor desires to establish and maintain a trust to hold
certain benefits received by the grantor under the Abbott Laboratories 40l(k)
Supplemental Plan, as it may be amended from time to time;

     NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS AGREED as follows:


                                    ARTICLE I

                                  INTRODUCTION

     I-1.  NAME.  This agreement and the trust hereby evidenced (the "trust")
may be referred to as the "________________ 19___ Grantor Trust".

     I-2.  THE TRUST FUND The "trust fund" as at any date means all property
then held by the trustee under this agreement.

     I-3.  STATUS OF THE TRUST.  The trust shall be irrevocable.  The trust is
intended to constitute a grantor trust under Sections 671-678 of the Internal
Revenue Code, as amended, and shall be construed accordingly.

     I-4.  THE ADMINISTRATOR.  Abbott Laboratories ("Abbott") shall act as the
"administrator" of the trust, and as such shall have certain powers, rights and
duties under this agreement as described below.  Abbott will certify to the
trustee from time to time the person or persons authorized to act on behalf of
Abbott as the administrator.  The trustee may rely on the latest certificate
received without further inquiry or verification.

     I-5.  ACCEPTANCE.  The trustee accepts the duties and obligations of the
"trustee" hereunder, agrees to accept funds delivered to it by the grantor or
the administrator, and agrees to hold such funds (and any proceeds from the
investment of such funds) in trust in accordance with this agreement.


                                   ARTICLE II

                         DISTRIBUTION OF THE TRUST FUND


     II-1.  DEFERRED ACCOUNT.  The administrator shall maintain a "deferred
account" under the trust.  As of the end of each calendar year, the
administrator shall charge the deferred account

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with all distributions made from such account during that year; and credit such
account with income and realized gains and charge such account with expenses and
realized losses for the year.

     II-2.  DISTRIBUTIONS FROM THE DEFERRED ACCOUNT PRIOR TO THE GRANTOR'S
DEATH.  Principal and accumulated income credited to the deferred account shall
not be distributed from the trust prior to the grantor's retirement or other
termination of employment with Abbott or a subsidiary of Abbott (the grantor's
"settlement date"); provided that, each year the administrator may direct the
trustee to distribute to the grantor a portion of the income of the deferred
account for that year, with the balance of such income to be accumulated in that
account.  The administrator shall inform the trustee of the grantor's settlement
date.  Thereafter, the trustee shall distribute the amounts from time to time
credited to the deferred account to the grantor, if then living, either in a
lump-sum payable as soon as practicable following the settlement date, or in a
series of annual installments, with the amount of each installment computed by
one of the following methods:

     (a)  The amount of each installment shall be equal to the sum of: (i) the
          amount credited to the deferred account as of the end of the year in
          which the grantor's settlement date occurs, divided by the number of
          years over which installments are to be distributed; plus (ii) the net
          earnings credited to the deferred account for the preceding year
          (excluding the year in which the grantor's settlement date occurs).

     (b)  The amount of each installment shall be determined by dividing the
          amount credited to the deferred account as of the end of the preceding
          year by the difference between (i) the total number of years over
          which installments are to be distributed, and (ii) the number of
          annual installment distributions previously made from the deferred
          account.

     (c)  Each installment (after the first installment) shall be approximately
          equal, with the amount comprised of the sum of: (i) the amount of the
          first installment, plus interest thereon at the rate determined under
          the Abbott Laboratories 401(k) Supplemental Plan, compounded annually;
          and (ii) the net earnings credited to the deferred account for the
          preceding year.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the final installment distribution made to the
grantor under this paragraph II-3 shall equal the total principal and
accumulated income then held in the trust fund.  The grantor, by writing filed
with the trustee and the administrator on or before the end of the calendar year
in which the grantor's settlement date occurs, may select either the lump-sum or
an installment payment method and, if an installment method is selected, may
select both the period (which may not be less

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than ten years from the end of the calendar year in which the grantor's
settlement date occurred) over which the installment distributions are to be
made and the method of computing the amount of each installment.  In the absence
of such a written direction by the grantor, installment distributions shall be
made over a period of ten years, and the amount of each installment shall be
computed by using the method described in subparagraph (a) next above.
Installment distributions under this Paragraph II-2 shall be made as of January
1 of each year, beginning with the calendar year following the year in which the
grantor's settlement date occurs.  The administrator shall inform the trustee of
the amount of each installment distribution under this paragraph II-2, and the
trustee shall be fully protected in relying on such information received from
the administrator.

     II-3.  DISTRIBUTIONS FROM THE TRUST FUND AFTER THE GRANTOR'S DEATH.  The
grantor, from time to time may name any person or persons (who may be named
contingently or successively and who may be natural persons or fiduciaries) to
whom the principal of the trust fund and all accrued or undistributed income
thereof shall be distributed in a lump sum or, if the beneficiary is the
grantor's spouse, in installments, as directed by the grantor, upon the
grantor's death.  If the grantor directs an installment method of distribution,
any amounts remaining at the death of the spouse beneficiary shall be
distributed in a lump sum.  Each designation shall revoke all prior
designations, shall be in writing and shall be effective only when filed by
the grantor with the administrator during the grantor's lifetime.  If the
grantor fails to direct a method of distribution, the distribution shall be
made in a lump sum.  If the grantor fails to designate a beneficiary as
provided above, then on the grantor's death, the trustee shall distribute the
balance of the trust fund in a lump sum to the executor or administrator of
the grantor's estate.

     II-4.  FACILITY OF PAYMENT.  When a person entitled to a distribution
hereunder is under legal disability, or, in the trustee's opinion, is in any way
incapacitated so as to be unable to manage his or her financial affairs, the
trustee may make such distribution to such person's legal representative, or to
a relative or friend of such person for such person's benefit.  Any distribution
made in accordance with the preceding sentence shall be a full and complete
discharge of any liability for such distribution hereunder.

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     II-5.  PERPETUITIES.  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this
agreement, on the day next preceding the end of 21 years after the death of the
last to die of the grantor and the grantor's descendants living on the date of
this instrument, the trustee shall immediately distribute any remaining balance
in the trust to the beneficiaries then entitled to distributions hereunder.


                                   ARTICLE III

                          MANAGEMENT OF THE TRUST FUND

     III-1.  GENERAL POWERS.  The trustee shall, with respect to the trust fund,
have the following powers, rights and duties in addition to those provided
elsewhere in this agreement or by law:

     (a)  Subject to the limitations of subparagraph (b) next below, to sell,
          contract to sell, purchase, grant or exercise options to purchase, and
          otherwise deal with all assets of the trust fund, in such way, for
          such considerations, and on such terms and conditions as the trustee
          decides.

     (b)  To retain in cash such amounts as the trustee considers advisable; and
          to invest and reinvest the balance of the trust fund, without
          distinction between principal and income, in obligations of the United
          States Government and its agencies or which are backed by the full
          faith and credit of the United States Government or in any mutual
          fund, common trust fund or collective investment fund which invests
          solely in such obligations; and any such investment made or retained
          by the trustee in good faith shall be proper despite any resulting
          risk or lack of diversification or marketability.

     (c)  To deposit cash in any depositary (including the banking department of
          the bank acting as trustee) without liability for interest, and to
          invest cash in savings accounts or time certificates of deposit
          bearing a reasonable rate of interest in any such depositary.

     (d)  To invest, subject to the limitations of subparagraph (b) above, in
          any common or commingled trust fund or funds maintained or
          administered by the trustee solely for the investment of trust funds.

     (e)  To borrow from anyone, with the administrator's approval, such sum or
          sums from time to time as the trustee considers desirable to carry out
          this trust, and to mortgage or pledge all or part of the trust fund as
          security.

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     (f)  To retain any funds or property subject to any dispute without
          liability for interest and to decline to make payment or delivery
          thereof until final adjudication by a court of competent jurisdiction
          or until an appropriate release is obtained.

     (g)  To begin, maintain or defend any litigation necessary in connection
          with the administration of this trust, except that the trustee shall
          not be obliged or required to do so unless indemnified to the
          trustee's satisfaction.

     (h)  To compromise, contest, settle or abandon claims or demands.

     (i)  To give proxies to vote stocks and other voting securities, to join in
          or oppose (alone or jointly with others) voting trusts, mergers,
          consolidations, foreclosures, reorganizations, liquidations, or other
          changes in the financial structure of any corporation, and to exercise
          or sell stock subscription or conversion rights.

     (j)  To hold securities or other property in the name of a nominee, in a
          depositary, or in any other way, with or without disclosing the trust
          relationship.

     (k)  To divide or distribute the trust fund in undivided interests or
          wholly or partly in kind.

     (l)  To pay any tax imposed on or with respect to the trust; to defer
          making payment of any such tax if it is indemnified to its
          satisfaction in the premises; and to require before making any payment
          such release or other document from any lawful taxing authority and
          such indemnity from the intended payee as the trustee considers
          necessary for its protection.

     (m)  To deal without restriction with the legal representative of the
          grantor's estate or the trustee or other legal representative of any
          trust created by the grantor or a trust or estate in which a
          beneficiary has an interest, even though the trustee, individually,
          shall be acting in such other capacity, without liability for any loss
          that may result.

     (n)  To appoint or remove by written instrument any bank or corporation
          qualified to act as successor trustee, wherever located, as special
          trustee as to part or all of the trust fund, including property as to
          which the trustee does not act, and such special trustee, except as
          specifically limited or provided by this or the appointing instrument,
          shall have all

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          of the rights, titles, powers, duties, discretions and immunities of
          the trustee, without liability for any action taken or omitted to be
          taken under this or the appointing instrument.

     (o)  To appoint or remove by written instrument any bank, wherever located,
          as custodian of part or all of the trust fund, and each such custodian
          shall have such rights, powers, duties and discretions as are
          delegated to it by the trustee.

     (p)  To employ agents, attorneys, accountants or other persons, and to
          delegate to them such powers as the trustee considers desirable, and
          the trustee shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting on
          the advice of persons so employed without court action.

     (q)  To perform any and all other acts which in the trustee's judgment are
          appropriate for the proper management, investment and distribution of
          the trust fund.

     III-2.  PRINCIPAL AND INCOME.  Any income earned on the trust fund which is
not distributed as provided in Article II shall be accumulated and from time to
time added to the principal of the trust.  The grantor's interest in the trust
shall include all assets or other property held by the trustee hereunder,
including principal and accumulated income.

     III-3.  STATEMENTS.  The trustee shall prepare and deliver monthly to the
administrator and annually to the grantor, if then living, otherwise to each
beneficiary then entitled to distributions under this agreement, a statement (or
series of statements) setting forth (or which taken together set forth) all
investments, receipts, disbursements and other transactions effected by the
trustee during the reporting period; and showing the trust fund and the value
thereof at the end of such period.

     III-4.  COMPENSATION AND EXPENSES.  All reasonable costs, charges and
expenses incurred in the administration of this trust, including compensation to
the trustee, any compensation to agents, attorneys, accountants and other
persons employed by the trustee, and expenses incurred in connection with the
sale, investment and reinvestment of the trust fund shall be paid from the trust
fund.

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                                   ARTICLE IV

                               GENERAL PROVISIONS

     IV-1.  INTERESTS NOT TRANSFERABLE.  The interests of the grantor or other
persons entitled to distributions hereunder are not subject to their debts or
other obligations and may not be voluntarily or involuntarily sold, transferred,
alienated, assigned or encumbered.

     IV-2.  DISAGREEMENT AS TO ACTS.  If there is a disagreement between the
trustee and anyone as to any act or transaction reported in any accounting, the
trustee shall have the right to a settlement of its account by any proper court.

     IV-3.  TRUSTEE'S OBLIGATIONS.  No power, duty or responsibility is imposed
on the trustee except as set forth in this agreement.  The trustee is not
obliged to determine whether funds delivered to or distributions from the trust
are proper under the trust, or whether any tax is due or payable as a result of
any such delivery or distribution.  The trustee shall be protected in making any
distribution from the trust as directed pursuant to Article II without inquiring
as to whether the distributee is entitled thereto; and the trustee shall not be
liable for any distribution made in good faith without written notice or
knowledge that the distribution is not proper under the terms of this agreement.

     IV-4.  GOOD FAITH ACTIONS.  The trustee's exercise or non-exercise of its
powers and discretions in good faith shall be conclusive on all persons.  No one
shall be obliged to see to the application of any money paid or property
delivered to the trustee.  The certificate of the trustee that it is acting
according to this agreement will fully protect all persons dealing with the
trustee.

     IV-5.  WAIVER OF NOTICE.  Any notice required under this agreement may be
waived by the person entitled to such notice.

     IV-6.  CONTROLLING LAW.  The laws of the State of Illinois shall govern the
interpretation and validity of the provisions of this agreement and all
questions relating to the management, administration, investment and
distribution of the trust hereby created.

     IV-7.  SUCCESSORS.  This agreement: shall be binding on all persons
entitled to distributions hereunder and their respective heirs and legal
representatives, and on the trustee and its successors.

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                                    ARTICLE V

                               CHANGES IN TRUSTEE

     V-1.  RESIGNATION OR REMOVAL OF TRUSTEE.  The trustee may resign at any
time by giving thirty days' advance written notice to the administrator and the
grantor.  The administrator may remove a trustee by written notice to the
trustee and the grantor.

     V-2.  APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE.  The administrator shall fill any
vacancy in the office of trustee as soon as practicable by written notice to the
successor trustee; and shall give prompt written notice thereof to the grantor,
if then living, otherwise to each beneficiary then entitled to payments or
distributions under this agreement.  A successor trustee shall be a bank (as
defined in Section 581 of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended).

     V-3.  DUTIES OF RESIGNING OR REMOVED TRUSTEE AND OF SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE.  A
trustee that resigns or is removed shall furnish promptly to the administrator
and the successor trustee an account of its administration of the trust from the
date of its last account.  Each successor trustee shall succeed to the title to
the trust fund vested in its predecessor without the signing or filing of any
instrument, but each predecessor trustee shall execute all documents and do all
acts necessary to vest such title of record in the successor trustee.  Each
successor trustee shall have all the powers conferred by this agreement as if
originally named trustee.  No successor trustee shall be personally liable for
any act or failure to act of a predecessor trustee.  With the approval of the
administrator, a successor trustee may accept the account furnished and the
property delivered by a predecessor trustee without incurring any liability for
so doing, and such acceptance will be complete discharge to the predecessor
trustee.


                                   ARTICLE VI

                            AMENDMENT AND TERMINATION

     VI-1.  AMENDMENT.  With the consent of the administrator, this trust may be
amended from time to time by the grantor, if then living, otherwise by a
majority of the beneficiaries then entitled to payments or distributions
hereunder, except as follows:

     (a)  The duties and liabilities of the trustee cannot be changed
substantially without its consent.

     (b)  This trust may not be amended so as to make the trust
revocable.

     VI-2.  TERMINATION. This Trust Shall Not Terminate, and all rights,
titles, powers, duties, discretions and immunities imposed on or reserved to
the trustee, the administrator, the grantor and the beneficiaries shall
continue in effect, until all

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assets of the trust have been distributed by the trustee as provided in Article
II.

                             *          *          *

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the grantor and the trustee have executed this
agreement as of the day and year first above written.




                                          Grantor______________________________


                                          The Northern Trust Company as Trustee

                                          By___________________________________

                                          Its__________________________________

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                                                         EXHIBIT 10.8

                                   Adopted by Board of Directors 12/13/85.
                                   Amended by Board of Review 3/13/86,
                                   12/11/86, 3/ll/87, 3/4/88, 12/9/88, 3/9/89,
                                   10/1/89, 12/21/90, 6/1/92 and 9/30/93.



                  ABBOTT LABORATORIES SUPPLEMENTAL PENSION PLAN

                                    SECTION 1

                                  INTRODUCTION

     1-1.  On September 9, 1977, December 14, 1979 and February 10, 1984 the
Board of Directors of Abbott Laboratories ("Abbott") adopted certain resolutions
providing for payment of (i) pension benefits calculated under the Abbott
Laboratories Annuity Retirement Plan ("Annuity Plan") in excess of those which
may be paid under that plan under the limits imposed by Section 415 of the U.S.
Internal Revenue Code, as amended, and the Employee Retirement Income Security
Act ("ERISA") and (ii) the additional pension benefits that would be payable
under the Annuity Plan if deferred awards under the Abbott Laboratories
Management Incentive Plan were included in "final earnings" as defined in the
Annuity Plan.

     On February 10, 1984 the Board of Directors of Abbott also adopted a
resolution (this and the resolutions described above being hereinafter referred
to as the "prior resolutions") allowing participants in the Abbott Laboratories
Stock Retirement Plan Stock Plan to elect "supplemental pay conversion"
contributions in excess of the limits imposed by Section 415 of the U.S.
Internal Revenue Code, as amended.

     The purpose of this ABBOTT LABORATORIES SUPPLEMENTAL PENSION PLAN (the
"Supplemental Plan") is to clarify, restate and supersede the prior resolutions.

     1-2.  The Supplemental Plan shall apply to employees of Abbott and its
subsidiaries and affiliates existing as of the date of

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adoption of the Supplemental Plan or thereafter created or acquired.  (Abbott
and each of such subsidiaries and affiliates are hereinafter referred to as an
"employer" and collectively as the "employers").

     1-3.  All benefits provided under the Supplemental Plan shall be provided
from the general assets of the employers and not from any trust fund or other
designated asset.  All participants in the Supplemental Plan shall be general
creditors of the employers with no priority over other creditors.

     1-4.  The Supplemental Plan shall be administered by the Abbott
Laboratories Employee Benefit Board of Review appointed and acting under the
Annuity Plan ("Board of Review").  Except as stated below, the Board of Review
shall perform all powers and duties with respect to the Supplemental Plan,
including the power to direct payment of benefits, allocate costs among
employers, adopt amendments and determine questions of interpretation.  The
Board of Directors of Abbott shall have the sole authority to terminate the
Supplemental Plan.


                                    SECTION 2

                     ERISA ANNUITY PLAN SUPPLEMENTAL BENEFIT

     2-1.  The benefits described in this Section 2 shall apply to all
participants in the Annuity Plan who retire, or terminate with a vested pension
under that plan, on or after September 9, 1977.

     2-2.  Each Annuity Plan participant whose retirement or vested pension
under that plan would otherwise be limited by Section 415, Internal Revenue
Code, shall receive a supplemental pension under this Supplemental Plan in an
amount, which, when added to his or her

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Annuity Plan pension, will equal the amount the participant would be  entitled
to under the Annuity Plan as in effect from time to time, based on the
particular option selected by the participant, without regard to the limitations
imposed by Section 415, Internal Revenue Code.


                                    SECTION 3

                    1986 TAX REFORM ACT SUPPLEMENTAL BENEFIT

     3-1.  The benefits described in this Section 3 shall apply to all
participants in the Annuity Plan who retire, or terminate with a vested pension
under that plan, after December 31, 1988.

     3-2.  Each Annuity Plan participant shall receive a supplemental pension
under this Supplemental Plan in an amount determined as follows:

     (a)  The supplemental pension shall be the difference, if any, between:

          (i)   The monthly benefit payable under the Annuity Plan plus any
                supplement provided by Section 2; and

          (ii)  The monthly benefit which would have been payable under the
                Annuity Plan (without regard to the limits imposed by Section
                415, Internal Revenue Code) if the participant's "final
                earnings", as defined in the Annuity Plan had included
                compensation in excess of the limits imposed by Section
                401(a)(17), Internal Revenue Code and any "pre-tax
                contributions" made by the participant under the Abbott
                Laboratories Supplemental 401(k) Plan.


                                    SECTION 4

                 DEFERRED MIP ANNUITY PLAN SUPPLEMENTAL BENEFIT

     4-1.  The benefits described in this Section 4 shall apply to all
participants in the Annuity Plan who retire, or terminate with a vested pension,
under that plan, on or after December 14, 1979 and who were awarded Management
Incentive Plan awards for any calendar

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year during the ten consecutive calendar years ending with the year of
retirement or termination of employment.

     4-2.  Each Annuity Plan participant shall receive a supplemental pension
under this Supplemental Plan in an amount determined as follows:

     (a)  The supplemental pension shall be the difference, if any, between:

          (i)   The monthly benefit payable under the Annuity Plan plus any
                supplement provided by Section 2 and Section 3; and

          (ii)  the monthly benefit which would have been payable under the
                Annuity Plan (without regard to the limits imposed by Section
                415, Internal Revenue Code) if the participant's "final
                earnings", as defined in the Annuity Plan, were one-sixtieth of
                the sum of:

                (A)  the participant's total "basic earnings" (excluding any
                     payments under the Management Incentive Plan or any
                     Division Incentive Plan) received in the sixty consecutive
                     calendar months for which his basic earnings (excluding any
                     payments under the Management Incentive Plan or any
                     Division Incentive Plan) were highest within the last one
                     hundred twenty consecutive calendar months immediately
                     preceding his retirement or termination of employment; and

                (B)  the amount of the participant's total awards under the
                     Management Incentive Plan and any Division Incentive Plan
                     (whether paid immediately or deferred) made for the five
                     consecutive calendar years during the ten consecutive
                     calendar years ending with the year of retirement or
                     termination for which such amount is the greatest and (for
                     participants granted Management Incentive Plan awards for
                     less than five consecutive calendar years during such ten
                     year period) which include all Management Incentive Plan
                     awards granted for consecutive calendar years within such
                     ten year period.


     (b)  That portion of any Management Incentive Plan award which the
          Compensation Committee has determined shall be excluded from the
          participant's "basic earnings" shall be

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                                      - 5 -



          excluded from the calculation of "final earnings" for purposes of this
          subsection 4-2.  "Final earnings" for purposes of this subsection 4-2
          shall include any compensation in excess of the limits imposed by
          Section 401(a)(17), Internal Revenue Code.

     (c)  In the event the period described in subsection 4-2(a)(ii)(B) is the
          final five calendar years of employment and a Management Incentive
          Plan award is made to the participant subsequent to retirement for the
          participant's final calendar year of employment, the supplemental
          pension shall be adjusted by adding such new award and subtracting a
          portion of the earliest Management Incentive Plan award included in
          the calculation, from the amount determined under subsection
          4-2(a)(ii)(B).  The portion subtracted shall be equal to that portion
          of the participant's final calendar year of employment during which
          the participant was employed by Abbott.  If such adjustment results in
          a greater supplemental pension, the greater pension shall be paid
          beginning the first month following the date of such new award.


                                    SECTION 5

               CORPORATE OFFICER ANNUITY PLAN SUPPLEMENTAL BENEFIT

      5-1.  The benefits described in this Section 5 shall apply to all
participants in the Annuity Plan who are corporate officers of Abbott as of
September 30, 1993 or who become corporate officers thereafter, and who retire,
or terminate with a vested pension under that plan on or after September 30,
1993.  The term "corporate officer" for purposes of this Section 5 shall mean an
individual elected an officer of Abbott by its Board of Directors (or designated
as such for purposes of this Section 5 by the Compensation Committee of the
Board of Directors of Abbott), but shall not include assistant officers.

     5-2.  Subject to the limitations and adjustments described below, each
participant described in subsection 5-1 shall receive a monthly supplemental
pension under this Supplemental Plan commencing on the participant's normal
retirement date under the Annuity Plan

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and payable as a life annuity, equal to 6/10 of 1 percent (.006) of the
participant's final earnings (as defined in subsection 4-6 of the Annuity Plan
but without regard to the limit imposed by Section 401(a)(17) of the Internal
Revenue Code) for each of the first twenty years of the participant's benefit
service (as defined in the Annuity Plan) occurring after the participant's
attainment of age 35.

     5-3.  In no event shall the sum of (a) the participant's aggregate
percentage of final earnings calculated under subsection 5-2 and (b) the
participant's aggregate percentage of final earnings calculated under subsection
5-1(b)(i) of the Annuity Plan, exceed the maximum aggregate percentage of final
earnings allowed under subsection 5-1(b)(i) of the Annuity Plan (without regard
to any limits imposed by the Internal Revenue Code), as in effect on the date of
the participant's retirement or termination.  In the event the limitation
described in this subsection 5-3 would be exceeded for any participant, the
participant's aggregate percentage calculated under subsection 5-2 shall be
reduced until the limit is not exceeded.

     5-4.  Benefit service occurring between the date a participant ceases to be
a corporate officer of Abbott and the date the participant again becomes a
corporate officer of Abbott shall be disregarded in calculating the
participant's aggregate percentage under subsection 5-2.

     5-5.  Any supplemental pension otherwise due a participant under this
Section 5 shall be reduced by the amount (if any) by which:

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     (a)  the sum of (i) the benefits due such participant under the Annuity
          Plan and this Supplemental Plan, plus (ii) the actuarially equivalent
          value of the employer-paid portion of all benefits due such
          participant under the primary retirement plans of all non-Abbott
          employers of such participant; exceeds

     (b)  the maximum benefit that would be due under the Annuity Plan (without
          regard to any limits imposed by Section 415 or other provisions of the
          Internal Revenue Code) based on the participant's actual final
          earnings (as defined in subsection 4-6 of the Annuity Plan but without
          regard to the limit imposed by Section 401(a)(17) of the Internal
          Revenue Code), if the participant had accrued the maximum benefit
          service recognized by the Annuity Plan.

The term "primary retirement plan" shall mean any pension benefit plan as
defined in ERISA, whether or not qualified under the Internal Revenue Code,
which is determined by the Board of Review to be the primary pension plan of its
sponsoring employer.  The term "non-Abbott employer" shall mean any employer
other than Abbott or a subsidiary or affiliate of Abbott.  A retirement plan
maintained by an employer prior to such employer's acquisition by Abbott shall
be deemed a retirement plan maintained by a non-Abbott employer for purposes of
this subsection 5-5.


     5-6.  Any supplemental pension due a participant under this Section 5 shall
be actuarially adjusted as provided in the Annuity Plan to reflect the pension
form selected by the participant and the participant's age at commencement of
the pension, and shall be paid as provided in subsection 6-2.


                                    SECTION 6

                         CORPORATE OFFICER ANNUITY PLAN
                      SUPPLEMENTAL EARLY RETIREMENT BENEFIT

     6-1.  The benefits described in this Section 6 shall apply to all persons
described in subsection 5-1.

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     6-2.  The supplemental pension due under Sections 2, 3, 4 and 5 to each
participant described in subsection 6-1 shall be reduced as provided in
subsections 5-3 and 5-6 of the Annuity Plan for each month by which its
commencement date precedes the last day of the month in which the participant
will attain age 60.  No reduction will be made for the period between the last
day of the months the participant will attain age 60 and age 62.

     6-3.  Each participant described in subsection 6-1 shall receive a monthly
supplemental pension under this Supplemental Plan equal to any reduction made in
such participant's Annuity Plan pension under subsections 5-3 or 5-6 of the
Annuity Plan for the period between the last day of the months the participant
will attain age 60 and age 62.


                                    SECTION 7

                      ERISA STOCK PLAN SUPPLEMENTAL BENEFIT

     7-1.  This Section 7 shall apply to any employee who participates in the
Stock Plan at any time during the period commencing January l, 1984 and ending
December 31, 1986 and shall apply only to supplemental pay conversion
contributions made by such participant during such period.

     7-2.  All "supplemental pay conversion" contributions as defined in the
Stock Plan elected by participants in that plan in excess of the limits imposed
on each such participant by Section 415, Internal Revenue Code, (the
"supplemental contributions") shall not be paid over to the Abbott Laboratories
Stock Retirement Trust (the "Stock Trust"), but shall be retained by the
participant's employer and credited by Abbott to bookkeeping accounts maintained

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for each such participant corresponding to the investment alternatives available
under the Stock Plan (the "bookkeeping accounts").

     7-3.  Each participant's supplemental contributions shall be allocated
among his or her bookkeeping accounts in the same proportions as the
participant's supplemental pay conversion contributions are allocated among the
investment alternatives available under the Stock Plan.

     7-4.  Each participant's supplemental contributions allocated to his or her
bookkeeping account for Abbott common shares shall be credited with the same
dividends and appreciation such contributions would have earned had they been
deposited in the Stock Trust and invested solely in Abbott common shares.  Each
participant's supplemental contributions allocated to his or her bookkeeping
accounts for other investment alternatives shall be credited with the same rate
of return such contributions would have earned had they been deposited in the
Stock Trust and invested solely in such investment alternative.

     7-5.  The amounts credited to each participant's bookkeeping accounts shall
be distributed to such participant or his or her beneficiary in the manner
described in subsection 8-2 or 8-3.

     7-6.  Each distribution from a participant's bookkeeping account for Abbott
common shares shall be increased by an amount which, after provision for any
federal income tax applicable to such amount, will equal the difference between
the then applicable maximum ordinary income and long-term capital gain federal
income tax rates applied to that portion of the distribution which exceeds

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the sum of the participant's supplemental contributions allocated to that
account and the imputed dividends thereon.


                                    SECTION 8

                                  MISCELLANEOUS

     8-1.  For purposes of this Supplemental Plan, the term "Management
Incentive Plan" shall mean the Abbott Laboratories 1971 Management Incentive
Plan, the Abbott Laboratories 1981 Management Incentive Plan and all successor
plans to those plans.

     8-2.  The supplemental pensions described in Sections 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6
shall be paid to the participant or his or her beneficiary based on the
particular pension option elected by the participant, in the same manner, at the
same time, for the same period and on the same terms and conditions as the
pension payable to the participant or his beneficiary under the Annuity Plan.
In the event a participant is paid his or her pension under the Annuity Plan in
a lump sum, any supplemental pension due under Sections 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 shall
likewise be paid in a lump sum.  All amounts credited to a participant under
Section 7 shall be distributed to the participant or his or her beneficiary in
the same manner, at the same time and on the same terms and conditions as the
distribution of the participant's interest in the Stock Trust.  Notwithstanding
the foregoing provisions of this subsection 8-2: (a) if the present value of the
vested supplemental pensions described in Sections 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 of a
participant who is actively employed by Abbott exceeds $100,000, then payment of
such pensions shall be made to the participant under Section 9 below; and (b)
the amount credited to a participant under Section 7 shall be paid to the
participant

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under Section 10 below; and (c) if the monthly vested supplemental pensions,
expressed as a straight life annuity, due a participant or his or her
beneficiary under Sections 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 do not exceed an aggregate of One
Hundred Fifty Dollars ($150.00) as of the commencement date of the pension
payable such participant or his or her beneficiary under the Annuity Plan, and
payment of such supplemental pension has not previously been made under Section
9, the present value of such supplemental pensions shall be paid such
participant or beneficiary in a lump-sum.

     8-3.  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Supplemental Plan, if
employment of any participant with Abbott and its subsidiaries and affiliates
should terminate for any reason within five (5) years after the date of a Change
in Control:

     (a)  All amounts credited to the participant under Section 7 shall be paid
          to the participant in a lump sum within thirty (30) days following
          such termination;

     (b)  The present value of any supplemental pension due the participant
          under Section 2 (whether or not then payable) shall be paid to the
          participant in a lump sum within thirty (30) days following such
          termination; and

     (c)  The present value of any supplemental pension due the participant
          under Sections 3 or 4 (whether or not then payable) shall be paid to
          the participant in a lump sum within thirty (30) days following such
          termination.

The supplemental pension described in paragraph (b) shall be computed using as
the applicable limit under Section 415, Internal Revenue Code, such limit as is
in effect on the termination date and based on the assumption that the
participant will receive his or her Annuity Plan pension in the form of a
straight life annuity with no

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ancillary benefits.  The present values of the supplemental pensions described
in paragraphs (b) and (c) shall be computed as of the date of payment by using
an interest rate equal to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation interest rate
applicable to an immediate annuity, as in effect on the date of payment.

      8-4.  For purposes of subsection 8-3, a "Change in Control" shall be
deemed to have occurred on the earliest of the following dates:


     (a)  The date any entity or person (including a "group" as defined in
          Section 13(d)(3) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange
          Act")) shall have become the beneficial owner of, or shall have
          obtained voting control over thirty percent (30%) or more of the
          outstanding common shares of the Company;

     (b)  The date the shareholders of the Company approve a definitive
          agreement (A) to merge or consolidate the Company with or into another
          corporation, in which the Company is not the continuing or surviving
          corporation or pursuant to which any common shares of the Company
          would be converted into cash, securities or other property of another
          corporation, other than a merger of the Company in which holders of
          common shares immediately prior to the merger have the same
          proportionate ownership of common stock of the surviving corporation
          immediately after the merger as immediately before, or (B) to sell or
          otherwise dispose of substantially all the assets of the Company; or

     (c)  The date there shall have been a change in a majority of the Board of
          Directors of the Company within a twelve (12) month period unless the
          nomination for election by the Company's shareholders of each new
          director was approved by the vote of two-thirds of the directors then
          still in office who were in office at the beginning of the twelve (12)
          month period.

     8-5.  The provisions of subsections 8-3, 8-4 and this subsection 8-5 may
not be amended or deleted, nor superseded by any

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other provisions of this Supplemental Plan, during the period beginning on the
date of a Change in Control and ending on the date five years following such
Change in Control.

     8-6.  All benefits due under this Supplement Plan shall be paid by Abbott
and Abbott shall be reimbursed for such payments by the employee's employer.  In
the event the employee is employed by more than one employer, each employer
shall reimburse Abbott in proportion to the period of time the employee was
employed by such employer, as determined by the Board of Review in its sole
discretion.


     8-7.  The benefits under the Supplemental Plan are not in any way subject
to the debts or other obligations of the persons entitled to benefits and may
not be voluntarily or involuntarily sold, transferred to assigned.

     8-8.  Nothing contained in this Supplemental Plan shall confer on any
employee the right to be retained in the employ of Abbott or any of its
subsidiaries or affiliates.

     8-9.  Upon adoption of this Supplemental Plan, the prior resolutions shall
be deemed rescinded.


                                    SECTION 9

                   ALTERNATE PAYMENT OF SUPPLEMENTAL PENSIONS

     9-1.  If, as of any December 31, the present value of the supplemental
pensions described in Sections 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 of a participant who is actively
employed by Abbott exceeds $100,000, then payment of such present value shall be
made, at the direction of the participant, by either of the following methods:
(a) current payment in cash directly to the participant; or (b) current payment

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of a portion of such present value (determined as of that December 31) in cash
for the participant directly to a Grantor Trust established by the participant,
provided such trust is in a form which Abbott determines to be substantially
similar to the trust attached to this Plan as Exhibit A; and current payment of
the balance of such present value in cash directly to the participant, provided
that the payment made directly to the participant shall approximate the
aggregate federal, state and local individual income taxes attributable to the
amount paid pursuant to this subparagraph 9-l(b).  If a participant fails to
make an election under this subsection 9-l, or if a participant makes an
election under subparagraph 9-1(b) but fails to establish a Grantor Trust, then
payment shall be made in cash directly to the participant.  Each payment
required under this subsection 9-l shall be made as soon as practicable after
the amount thereof can be ascertained by Abbott, but in no event later than the
last day of the calendar year following the calendar year in which the present
value of the participant's supplemental pensions described in Sections 2, 3, 4,
5 and 6 first exceeds $100,000.

      9-2.  If the present value of a participant's supplemental pensions has
been paid to the participant (including amounts paid to the participant's
Grantor Trust) pursuant to subsection 9-1, then as of each subsequent December
31, such participant shall be entitled to a payment in an amount equal to: (a)
the present value (as of that December 31) of the participant's supplemental
pensions described in Sections 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6; less (b) the current value (as
of that December 31) of the payments previously made to the

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participant under subsection 9-1 and 9-2; less (c) the excess, if any, of (1)
the Tax Gross Up payment made to the participant under subsection 11-1 for the
immediately preceding calendar year, over (2) the net increase in the
participant's federal, state and local income taxes as a result of the inclusion
in his or her taxable income of the income of the participant's Grantor Trust
and any Guaranteed Rate Payments for that year.  Payments under this subsection
9-2 shall be made, at the direction of the participant, by either of the
following methods:  (i) current payment in cash directly to the participant; or
(ii) current payment of a portion of such amount in cash for the participant
directly to the Grantor Trust established by the participant; and current
payment of the balance of such amount in cash directly to the participant,
provided that the payment made directly to the participant shall approximate the
aggregate federal, state and local individual income taxes attributable to the
amount paid pursuant to this subparagraph 9-2(ii).  If a participant fails to
make an election under this subsection 9-2, then payment shall be made in cash
directly to the participant.  Each payment required under this subsection 9-2
shall be made as soon as practicable after the amount thereof can be ascertained
by Abbott, but in no event later than the last day of the calendar year
following the December 31 as of which such payment becomes due.  No payments
shall be made under this subsection 9-2 as of any December 31 after the calendar
year in which the participant retires or otherwise terminates employment with
Abbott.

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     9-3.  Present values shall be determined using reasonable actuarial
assumptions specified for this purpose by Abbott and consistently applied.  The
"current value" of the payments previously made to a participant under
subsections 9-1 and 9-2 means the aggregate amount of such payments, with
interest thereon (at the rate specified for this purpose by Abbott) from January
1 of the year of payment.

     9-4.  Abbott will establish and maintain a separate Supplemental Pension
Account in the name of each participant, which shall reflect any amounts paid to
a participant (including amounts paid to a participant's Grantor Trust) pursuant
to subsections 9-1 and 9-2, and any adjustments made pursuant to subsection 9-5.
The accounts established pursuant to this subsection 9-4 are for the convenience
of the administration of the Plan and no trust relationship with respect to such
accounts is intended or should be implied.

     9-5.  As of the end of each calendar year, Abbott shall adjust each
participant's Supplemental Pension Account as follows:


     (a)  FIRST, charge an amount equal to the product of: (i) any payments made
          (or which would have been made) to the participant during that year
          from his or her Grantor Trust (other than distributions of earnings in
          excess of the Net Interest Accrual to provide for the Tax Gross Up
          under subsection 11-1); multiplied by (ii) a fraction, the numerator
          of which is the balance in the participant's Supplemental Pension
          Account as of the end of the prior calendar year and the denominator
          of which is the balance (or the amount which would have been the
          balance) in the participant's Grantor Trust as of that same date;

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     (b)  NEXT, credit an amount equal to the Interest Accrual for that year
          pursuant to subsection 9-6; and

     (c)  FINALLY, credit an amount equal to the amount that is paid for that
          year to the participant (including the amount paid to the
          participant's Grantor Trust) pursuant to subsections 9-1 and 9-2.

     9-6.  As of the end of each calendar year, a participant's Supplemental
Pension Account shall be credited with interest calculated at a reasonable rate
of interest specified for this purpose by Abbott and consistently applied.  Any
amount so credited shall be referred to as a participant's "Interest Accrual."

     9-7.  In addition to any payment made to a participant for any calendar
year pursuant to subsection 9-1 or 9-2, Abbott shall also make a payment to a
participant's Grantor Trust (a "Guaranteed Rate Payment"), for any year in which
the net income of such trust does not equal or exceed the participant's Net
Interest Accrual for that year.  A participant's "Net Interest Accrual" for a
year is an amount equal to:  (a) the Interest Accrual credited to the
participant's Supplemental Pension Account for that year; less (b) the product
of (i) the amount of such Interest Accrual, multiplied by (ii) the aggregate of
the federal, state and local individual income tax rates (determined in
accordance with subsection 11-2).  The Guaranteed Rate Payment shall equal the
difference between the participant's Net Interest Accrual and the net income of
the participant's Grantor Trust for the year, and shall be paid within 180 days
of the end of that year.  No payments shall be made under this subsection 9-7
for any year following the year of the participant's death.

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     9-8.  If at any time after a participant's retirement or other  termination
of employment with Abbott, there is no longer a balance in his or her Grantor
Trust, then such participant (or his or her surviving spouse if such spouse is
entitled to periodic payments from the Grantor Trust) shall be entitled to a
"Continuation Payment" under this subsection 9-8.  The amount of the
Continuation Payment shall be equal to the amount of the supplemental pension
that would have been payable to the participant (or surviving spouse) had no
payments been made to or for the participant under subsections 9-1 and 9-2.
Continuation Payments shall be made monthly, beginning with the month following
the month in which there is no longer a balance in the participant's Grantor
Trust and ending with the month of the participant's (or surviving spouse's)
death.  Payments under this subsection 9-8 shall be made by the employers (in
such proportions as Abbott shall designate) directly from their general
corporate assets.  Appropriate adjustments to the Continuation Payments shall be
made in the event distributions have been made from a participant's Grantor
Trust for reasons other than benefit payments to the participant or surviving
spouse.


                                   SECTION 10

                      PAYMENT OF SUPPLEMENTAL CONTRIBUTIONS

     Notwithstanding any other provisions of the plan, the amount credited to a
participant under Section 7 shall be paid in cash directly to the participant on
or before December 31, 1990.


                                   SECTION 11

                              TAX GROSS UP PAYMENTS

     11-1.  In addition to the payments provided under subsections 9-1 and 9-2,
each participant shall also be entitled to a Tax Gross
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Up payment for each year there is a balance in his or her Supplemental Pension
Account.  The "Tax Gross Up" shall approximate:  (a) the product of (i) the
participant's Net Interest Accrual for the year (calculated using the greater of
the rate of return of the Grantor Trusts or the rate specified in subsection
9-6), multiplied by (ii) the aggregate of the federal, state and local tax rates
(determined in accordance with subsection 11-2); less (b) the excess, if any, of
(i) the participant's Net Interest Accrual for the year calculated using the
rate of return of the Grantor Trusts; over (ii) such Net Interest Accrual
calculated using the rate specified in subsection 9-6; plus (c) an amount equal
to the product of (i) any payment made pursuant to this subsection 11-1,
multiplied by (ii) the aggregate tax rate determined under subparagraph
11-1(a)(ii) above.  Payment of the Tax Gross Up shall be made by the employers
(in such proportions as Abbott shall designate) directly from their general
corporate assets.  The Tax Gross Up for a year shall be paid to the participant
as soon as practicable after the amount of the Tax Gross Up can be ascertained
by Abbott, but in no event later than the last day of the calendar year
following the calendar year to which the Tax Gross Up relates.  No payments
shall be made under this subsection 11-1 for any year following the year of the
participant's death.

     11-2.  For purposes of Sections 9 and 11, a participant's federal income
tax rate shall be deemed to be the highest marginal rate of federal individual
income tax in effect in the calendar year in which a calculation under those
Sections is to be made, and state and local tax rates shall be deemed to be the
highest marginal

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rates of individual income tax in effect in the state and locality of the
participant's residence in the calendar year for which such a calculation is to
be made, net of any federal tax benefits.




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                                                                       EXHIBIT A

                           ___________________________
                              SUPPLEMENTAL BENEFIT
                                  GRANTOR TRUST


     THIS AGREEMENT, made this _____ day of __________________, 199__, by and
between ________________________________________ of ______________ (the
"grantor"), and The Northern Trust Company, located at Chicago, Illinois, as
trustee (the "trustee"),


                                WITNESSETH THAT:


     WHEREAS, the grantor desires to establish and maintain a trust to hold
certain benefits received by the grantor under the Abbott Laboratories
Supplemental Pension Plan, as it may be amended from time to time;


     NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS AGREED as follows:


                                    ARTICLE I

                                  INTRODUCTION

     I-1.  NAME.  This agreement and the trust hereby evidenced (the "trust")
may be referred to as the "________________________ Supplemental Benefit Grantor
Trust."

     I-2.  THE TRUST FUND.  The "trust fund" as at any date means all property
then held by the trustee under this agreement.

     I-3.  STATUS OF THE TRUST.  The trust shall be irrevocable.  The trust is
intended to constitute a grantor trust under Sections 671-678 of the Internal
Revenue Code, as amended, and shall be construed accordingly.

     I-4.  THE ADMINISTRATOR.  Abbott Laboratories ("Abbott") shall act as the
"administrator" of the trust, and as such shall have certain powers, rights and
duties under this agreement as described below.  Abbott will certify to the
trustee from time to time the person or persons authorized to act on behalf of
Abbott as the administrator.  The trustee may rely on the latest certificate
received without further inquiry or verification.

     I-5.  ACCEPTANCE.  The trustee accepts the duties and obligations of the
"trustee" hereunder, agrees to accept funds delivered to it by the grantor or
the administrator, and agrees to hold such funds (and any proceeds from the
investment of such funds) in trust in accordance with this agreement.

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                                   ARTICLE II

                         DISTRIBUTION OF THE TRUST FUND

     II-1.  SEPARATE ACCOUNTS.  The administrator shall maintain two separate
accounts under the trust, a "supplemental pension account" and a "supplemental
contribution account." Funds delivered to the trustee shall be allocated between
the accounts as directed by the administrator.  As of the end of each calendar
year, the administrator shall charge each account with all distributions made
from such account during that year; and credit each account with its share of
trust income and realized gains and charge each account with its share of trust
expenses and realized losses for the year.  The trustee shall not be required to
make any separate investment of the trust fund for the accounts, and may
administer and invest all funds delivered to it under the trust as one trust
fund.

     II-2.  DISTRIBUTIONS PRIOR TO THE GRANTOR'S DEATH.  Principal and
accumulated income shall not be distributed from the trust prior to the
grantor's retirement or other termination of employment with Abbott or a
subsidiary of Abbott (the grantor's "settlement date"); provided that, each year
the administrator may direct the trustee to distribute to the grantor a portion
of the income of the trust fund for that year, with the balance of such income
to be accumulated in the trust.  The administrator shall inform the trustee of
the grantor's settlement date.  Thereafter, the trustee shall distribute the
amounts from time to time credited to the supplemental pension account to the
grantor, if then living, in the same manner, at the same time and over the same
period as the pension payable to the grantor under Abbott Laboratories Annuity
Retirement Plan; and the trustee shall distribute the amounts from time to time
credited to the supplemental contribution account to the grantor, if then
living, in the same manner, at the same time and over the same period as the
distribution of the grantor's benefits from Abbott Laboratories Stock Retirement
Plan.

     II-3.  DISTRIBUTIONS AFTER THE GRANTOR'S DEATH.  On the death of the
grantor, the entire principal of the trust fund and all accrued or undistributed
income thereof shall be distributed in a lump sum to or for the benefit of such
one or more persons designated by the grantor in a beneficiary designation
provided by the administrator.  If the grantor fails to designate a beneficiary
as provided above, then on the grantor's death, the trustee shall distribute the
balance of the trust fund to the executor or administrator of the grantor's
estate.

     II-4.  FACILITY OF PAYMENT.  When a person entitled to a distribution
hereunder is under legal disability, or, in the trustee's opinion, is in any way
incapacitated so as to be unable to manage his or her financial affairs, the
trustee may make such distribution to such person's legal representative, or to
a relative or friend of such person for such person's benefit.  Any distribution
made in accordance with the preceding sentence shall be

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a full and complete discharge of any liability for such distribution hereunder.

     II-5.  PERPETUITIES.  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this
agreement, on the day next preceding the end of 21 years after the death of the
last to die of the grantor and the grantor's descendants living on the date of
this instrument, the trustee shall immediately distribute any remaining balance
in the trust to the beneficiaries then entitled to distributions hereunder.


                                   ARTICLE III

                          MANAGEMENT OF THE TRUST FUND

     III-1.  GENERAL POWERS.  The trustee shall, with respect to the trust fund,
have the following powers, rights and duties in addition to those provided
elsewhere in this agreement or by law:

     (a)  Subject to the limitations of subparagraph (b) next below, to sell,
          contract to sell, purchase, grant or exercise options to purchase, and
          otherwise deal with all assets of the trust fund, in such way, for
          such considerations, and on such terms and conditions as the trustee
          decides.

     (b)  To retain in cash such amounts as the trustee considers advisable; and
          to invest and reinvest the balance of the trust fund, without
          distinction between principal and income, in an annuity contract or
          contracts issued by a legal reserve life insurance company or in
          obligations of the United States Government and its agencies or which
          are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States
          Government; and any such investment made or retained by the trustee in
          good faith shall be proper despite any resulting risk or lack of
          diversification or marketability.

     (c)  To deposit cash in any depositary (including the banking department of
          the bank acting as trustee) without liability for interest, and to
          invest cash in savings accounts or time certificates of deposit
          bearing a reasonable rate of interest in any such depositary.

     (d)  To invest, subject to the limitations of subparagraph (b) above, in
          any common or commingled trust fund or funds maintained or
          administered by the trustee solely for the investment of trust funds.

     (e)  To borrow from anyone, with the administrator's approval, such sum or
          sums from time to time as the trustee considers desirable to carry out
          this trust, and to mortgage or pledge all or part of the trust fund as
          security.

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     (f)  To retain any funds or property subject to any dispute without
          liability for interest and to decline to make payment or delivery
          thereof until final adjudication by a court of competent jurisdiction
          or until an appropriate release is obtained.

     (g)  To begin, maintain or defend any litigation necessary in connection
          with the administration of this trust, except that the trustee shall
          not be obliged or required to do so unless indemnified to the
          trustee's satisfaction.

     (h)  To compromise, contest, settle or abandon claims or demands.

     (i)  To give proxies to vote stocks and other voting securities, to join in
          or oppose (alone or jointly with others) voting trusts, mergers,
          consolidations, foreclosures, reorganizations, liquidations, or other
          changes in the financial structure of any corporation, and to exercise
          or sell stock subscription or conversion rights.

     (j)  To hold securities or other property in the name of a nominee, in a
          depositary, or in any other way, with or without disclosing the trust
          relationship.

     (k)  To divide or distribute the trust fund in undivided interests or
          wholly or partly in kind.

     (l)  To pay any tax imposed on or with respect to the trust; to defer
          making payment of any such tax if it is indemnified to its
          satisfaction in the premises; and to require before making any payment
          such release or other document from any lawful taxing authority and
          such indemnity from the intended payee as the trustee considers
          necessary for its protection.

     (m)  To deal without restriction with the legal representative of the
          grantor's estate or the trustee or other legal representative of any
          trust created by the grantor or a trust or estate in which a
          beneficiary has an interest, even though the trustee, individually,
          shall be acting in such other capacity, without liability for any loss
          that may result.

     (n)  To appoint or remove by written instrument any bank or corporation
          qualified to act as successor trustee, wherever located, as special
          trustee as to part or all of the trust fund, including property as to
          which the trustee does not act, and such special trustee, except as
          specifically limited or provided by this or the appointing instrument,
          shall have all of the rights, titles, powers, duties, discretions and
          immunities of the trustee, without

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          liability for any action taken or omitted to be taken under this or
          the appointing instrument.

     (o)  To appoint or remove by written instrument any bank, wherever located,
          as custodian of part or all of the trust fund, and each such custodian
          shall have such rights, powers, duties and discretions as are
          delegated to it by the trustee.

     (p)  To employ agents, attorneys, accountants or other persons, and to
          delegate to them such powers as the trustee considers desirable, and
          the trustee shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting on
          the advise of persons so employed without court action.

     (q)  To perform any and all other acts which in the trustee's judgment are
          appropriate for the proper management, investment and distribution of
          the trust fund.

     III-2.  PRINCIPAL AND INCOME.  Any income earned on the trust fund which is
not distributed as provided in Article II shall be accumulated and from time to
time added to the principal of the trust.  The grantor's interest in the trust
shall include all assets or other property held by the trustee hereunder,
including principal and accumulated income.

     III-3.  ANNUAL STATEMENTS.  Periodically, but at least within a reasonable
time after the close of each calendar year, the trustee shall prepare and
deliver to the administrator and to the grantor, if then living, otherwise to
each beneficiary then entitled to distributions under this agreement, a
statement (or series of statements) setting forth (or which taken together set
forth) all investments, receipts, disbursements and other transactions effected
by the trustee during the calendar year; and showing the trust fund and the
value thereof at the end of the year.

     III-4.  COMPENSATION AND EXPENSES.  All reasonable costs, charges and
expenses incurred in the administration of this trust, including compensation to
the trustee, any compensation to agents, attorneys, accountants and other
persons employed by the trustee, and expenses incurred in connection with the
sale, investment and reinvestment of the trust fund shall be paid from the trust
fund.


                                   ARTICLE IV

                               GENERAL PROVISIONS

     IV-1.  INTERESTS NOT TRANSFERABLE.  The interests of the grantor or other
persons entitled to distributions hereunder are not subject to their debts or
other obligations and may not be voluntarily or involuntarily sold, transferred,
alienated, assigned or encumbered.

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     IV-2.  DISAGREEMENT AS TO ACTS.  If there is a disagreement between the
trustee and anyone as to any act or transaction reported in any accounting, the
trustee shall have the right to a settlement of its account by any proper court.

     IV-3.  TRUSTEE'S OBLIGATIONS.  No power, duty or responsibility is imposed
on the trustee except as set forth in this agreement.  The trustee is not
obliged to determine whether funds delivered to or distributions from the trust
are proper under the trust, or whether any tax is due or payable as a result of
any such delivery or distribution.  The trustee shall be protected in making any
distribution from the trust as directed pursuant to Article II without inquiring
as to whether the distributee is entitled thereto; the trustee shall not be
liable for any distribution made in good faith without written notice or
knowledge that the distribution is not proper under the terms of this agreement;
and the trustee shall not be liable for any action taken because of the specific
direction of the administrator.

     IV-4.  GOOD FAITH ACTIONS.  The trustee's exercise or non-exercise of its
powers and discretions in good faith shall be conclusive on all persons.  No one
shall be obliged to see to the application of any money paid or property
delivered to the trustee.  The certificate of the trustee that it is acting
according to this agreement will fully protect all persons dealing with the
trustee.

     IV-5.  WAIVER OF NOTICE.  Any notice required under this agreement may be
waived by the person entitled to such notice.

     IV-6.  CONTROLLING LAW.  The laws of the State of Illinois shall govern the
interpretation and validity of the provisions of this agreement and all
questions relating to the management, administration, investment and
distribution of the trust hereby created.

     IV-7.  SUCCESSORS.  This agreement shall be binding on all persons entitled
to distributions hereunder and their respective heirs and legal representatives,
and on the trustee and its successors.



                                    ARTICLE V

                               CHANGES IN TRUSTEE

     V-1.  RESIGNATION OR REMOVAL OF TRUSTEE.  The trustee may resign at any
time by giving thirty days' advance written notice to the administrator and the
grantor.  The administrator may remove a trustee by written notice to the
trustee and the grantor.

     V-2.  APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE.  The administrator shall fill any
vacancy in the office of trustee as soon as practicable by written notice to the
successor trustee; and shall give prompt written notice thereof to the grantor,
if then living, otherwise to each beneficiary then entitled to payments or

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distributions under this agreement.  A successor trustee shall be a bank (as
defined in Section 581 of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended).

     V-3.  DUTIES OF RESIGNING OR REMOVED TRUSTEE AND OF SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE.  A
trustee that resigns or is removed shall furnish promptly to the administrator
and the successor trustee an account of its administration of the trust from the
date of its last account.  Each successor trustee shall succeed to the title to
the trust fund vested in its predecessor without the signing or filing of any
instrument, but each predecessor trustee shall execute all documents and do all
acts necessary to vest such title of record in the successor trustee.  Each
successor trustee shall have all the powers conferred by this agreement as if
originally named trustee.  No successor trustee shall be personally liable for
any act or failure to act of a predecessor trustee.  With the approval of the
administrator, a successor trustee may accept the account furnished and the
property delivered by a predecessor trustee without incurring any liability for
so doing, and such acceptance will be complete discharge to the predecessor
trustee.


                                   ARTICLE VI

                            AMENDMENT AND TERMINATION

     VI-1.  AMENDMENT.  With the consent of the administrator, this trust may be
amended from time to time by the grantor, if then living, otherwise by a
majority of the beneficiaries then entitled to payments or distributions
hereunder, except as follows:

     (a)  The duties and liabilities of the trustee cannot be changed
          substantially without its consent.

     (b)  This trust may not be amended so as to make the trust revocable.

     VI-2.  TERMINATION.  This trust shall not terminate, and all rights,
titles, powers, duties, discretions and immunities imposed on or reserved to the
trustee, the administrator, the grantor and the beneficiaries shall continue in
effect, until all assets of the trust have been distributed by the trustee as
provided in Article II.

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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the grantor and the trustee have executed this
agreement as of the day and year first above written.

                ____________________________________
                          Grantor


                ________________________, as Trustee

                By _________________________________

                  Its ______________________________





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                                                            EXHIBIT 10.9


                         Adopted by the Board of Directors on December 13, 1985.
                         Amended by the Board of Directors on 3/14/86, 12/11/87,
                         4/14/89, 2/8/91, 4/10/92 and 9/10/93



                                      1986

                               ABBOTT LABORATORIES

                            MANAGEMENT INCENTIVE PLAN



                                    SECTION 1

                                  INTRODUCTION

     1.1  BACKGROUND AND PURPOSES.  This 1986 ABBOTT LABORATORIES  MANAGEMENT
INCENTIVE PLAN (the "Plan") is a successor Plan to the 1961, 1971  and 1981
Management Incentive Plans (the "Predecessor Plans").  This Plan is  being
established by ABBOTT LABORATORIES ("Abbott") for the following  purposes:


     (a)  To provide greater incentive for participants in the Plan to attain
          and maintain the highest standards of managerial performance by
          rewarding them for services rendered with compensation, in addition to
          their base salaries, in proportion to the success of Abbott and to the
          participants' respective contribution to such success; and

     (b)  To attract and retain in the employ of Abbott and its subsidiaries
          persons of outstanding competence.

     1.2  EFFECTIVE DATE AND FISCAL YEAR.  The Plan shall be effective as of
January 1, 1986.  The term "fiscal year," as used in this Plan, means the fiscal
period from time to time employed by Abbott for the purpose of reporting
earnings to shareholders.

      1.3    ADMINISTRATION.  The Plan will be administered by the Compensation
Committee (the "Committee") appointed by the Board of Directors of Abbott.

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                                    SECTION 2

                          ELIGIBILITY AND PARTICIPATION

     2.1  PERSONS ELIGIBLE FOR PARTICIPATION.  Participation in the Plan will be
limited to those Officers and managerial employees of Abbott  and its
subsidiaries who, from time to time, shall be selected as participants by the
Committee.

     2.2  PARTICIPANTS.  The term "participant," as used in the Plan, shall
include both active participants and inactive participants.


     2.3  ACTIVE PARTICIPANTS.  For each fiscal year, beginning with the first
fiscal year in which the Plan is in effect, there shall be a group of active
participants which, except as provided below, shall not exceed thirty-five
persons, and shall consist of those persons eligible for participation who shall
have been designated as active participants and notified of that fact by the
Committee at any time before or during the fiscal year.  If, as a result of the
growth of Abbott and its subsidiaries or changes in Abbott's organization, the
Board of Directors deems it appropriate, the Board of Directors may, in its
discretion, from time to time, increase the number of persons who may be
designated as active participants for any fiscal year beyond the limit of
thirty-five persons provided for above.  Selection as an active participant for
any fiscal year shall not confer upon any person a right to be an active
participant in any subsequent fiscal year, nor shall it confer upon him the
right to receive any allocation under the Plan, other than amounts allocated to
him by the Committee pursuant to

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the Plan, and all such allocations shall be subject to all of the terms and
conditions of the Plan.

     2.4  INACTIVE PARTICIPANTS.  Inactive participants shall consist of those
persons, including beneficiaries of deceased participants, if any, for whom an
allocation shall have been made for a prior fiscal year under this Plan or a
Predecessor Plan, the payment of which was deferred and remains unpaid.  Status
as an inactive participant shall not preclude a person from also being an active
participant during any fiscal year.

                                    SECTION 3

                         MANAGEMENT INCENTIVE PLAN FUND

     3.1  BASE FOR MANAGEMENT INCENTIVE PLAN FUND.  The "base earnings" for
determining whether any portion of consolidated net income for any fiscal year
may be allocated to the Management Incentive Plan Fund for such year shall be
that amount of consolidated net income (as defined in subsection 3.2) which is
equal to 15 percent of the Abbott Common Shareholder's Equity for such fiscal
year.  For this purpose, "Abbott Common Shareholders' Equity" for any fiscal
year shall mean the Shareholders' Investment, as reflected in the consolidated
balance sheet of Abbott as of the close of the next preceding fiscal year, plus
or minus such adjustments thereof as may be determined by the Committee in order
to reflect:

     (a)  The existence, issuance, sale, exchange, conversion or retirement of
          any securities, other than common shares, of Abbott (whether involving
          preferred stock, debt, convertible preferred stock or convertible debt
          securities); and

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     (b)  The issuance or retirement of any common shares or any changes in
          accounting methods or period adopted by Abbott since the close of such
          next preceding fiscal year.

Any adjustments to be made in accordance with (a) and (b) above in determining
Abbott Common Shareholders' Equity for any fiscal year shall be determined by
the Committee after consultation with Abbott's independent auditors, and any
determination made by the Committee after such consultation shall be conclusive
upon all persons.

     3.2  CONSOLIDATED NET INCOME.  For the purposes of this Plan, for any
fiscal year or period, the "consolidated net income" shall be the consolidated
net income of Abbott and its subsidiaries, prepared in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles, consistently applied, after provision for any
interest accrued with respect to such period on account of deferred payments
under this Plan or a Predecessor Plan, but before allowances for any amount to
be allocated to the Management Incentive Plan Fund, both net of applicable
income taxes, and after such adjustments for the following, as may be determined
by the Committee after consultation with Abbott's independent auditors (all net
of applicable income taxes):

     (a)  The exclusion of any charges for amortization of goodwill arising out
          of acquisitions made for securities which, as a result of adjustments
          made in determining Abbott Common Shareholders' Equity pursuant to
          subsection 3.1, are treated as common share equivalents; and

     (b)  The exclusion of any interest on debt securities which are convertible
          into common shares of Abbott and which shall have been considered as
          common share equivalents in determining Abbott Common Shareholders'
          Equity pursuant to subsection 3.1 hereof; and

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     (c)  The deduction of any dividend requirement for preferred shares which
          has not been considered as common share equivalents in determining
          Common Shareholders' Equity pursuant to subsection 3.1 hereof.

In the sole discretion of the Committee there shall also be excluded in the
calculation of "consolidated net income" unusual gains and losses and the tax
effects thereof, changes in generally accepted accounting principles and the tax
effects thereof and extraordinary gains and losses.

     3.3  DETERMINATION OF MANAGEMENT INCENTIVE PLAN AMOUNT FOR ANY YEAR.  For
each fiscal year that consolidated net income exceeds base earnings, and as soon
as practicable after ascertainment of that fact, the Committee shall determine a
tentative amount as the Management Incentive Plan Amount for that year, which
tentative amount shall not exceed the lesser of:


     (a)  an amount which, when treated as an expense currently deductible for
          income tax purposes in such year, would cause a 5 percent reduction in
          such year's excess of consolidated net income over the base earnings
          for such year; and

     (b)  an amount which, when treated as an expense currently deductible for
          income tax purposes in such year, would cause a 1-1/2 percent
          reduction in such year's consolidated net income; and

     (c)  an amount which equals 100 percent of the aggregate base salaries of
          all active participants for such year.

For purposes of the Plan "base salary" means the amount of salary paid to each
active participant by Abbott and its subsidiaries for such year, and does not
include bonuses, awards, or any other compensation of any kind.  Following
determination of such tentative Management Incentive Plan Amount, the Committee
shall report in writing the amount of such tentative amount to the Board of

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Directors.  At the meeting of the Board of Directors coincident with or next
following receipt by it of the Committee's determination, the Board of Directors
shall have the power to approve or reduce, but not to increase, the tentative
amount reported to it by the Committee.  The amount approved by the Board of
Directors shall be the Management Incentive Plan Amount for such year.

     3.4  THE MANAGEMENT INCENTIVE PLAN FUND.  The Management Incentive Plan
Fund at any time shall consist of an amount equal to the aggregate of the
Management Incentive Plan Amounts established pursuant to subsection 3.3 of this
Plan for all fiscal years during which this Plan shall have been operative, plus
the amounts established as Management Incentive Plan Amounts for any prior
fiscal year pursuant to a Predecessor Plan, reduced by an amount equal to the
aggregate of the amounts of awards which shall have been allocated to
participants in accordance with this Plan or a Predecessor Plan, and which
awards either have been paid or remain payable to participants or their
beneficiaries.

                                    SECTION 4

                     ALLOCATION OF MANAGEMENT INCENTIVE FUND

     4.1  ANNUAL ALLOCATION OF MANAGEMENT INCENTIVE FUND.  As soon as
practicable after the close of each fiscal year, part or all of the amount then
in the Management Incentive Plan Fund (including the Management Incentive Plan
Amount for such fiscal year) will be allocated by the Committee among active
participants in the Plan for such fiscal year, having due regard for the
purposes for which the Plan was established, in the following manner and order:

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     (a)  First, if the Chairman of the Board of Abbott shall be an active
          participant for such year, the members of the Committee, other than
          the Chairman of the Board, shall determine the amount, if any, to be
          allocated to the Chairman of the Board from such Fund for such year;
          and

     (b)  Next, all or a part of the balance of such Fund may be allocated among
          the active participants (other than the Chairman of the Board) for
          such year, in such amounts and proportions as the Committee shall
          determine.

provided, however, that the amount allocated to any active participant for any
year shall not exceed 125 percent of such participants' base salary for that
year.

     4.2  COMMITTEE'S DISCRETION IN ALLOCATIONS.  In making any allocations in
accordance with subsection 4.1 for any year, the discretion of the Committee
shall be absolute, and no active participants for any year, by reason of their
designation as such, shall be entitled to any particular amounts or any amount
whatsoever.

                                    SECTION 5

                  PAYMENT OF AMOUNTS ALLOCATED TO PARTICIPANTS

     5.1  TIME OF PAYMENT.  For fiscal years beginning after December 31, 1988,
a participant shall direct the payment or deferral of an allocation made to him
pursuant to subsection 4.1 (subject to such conditions relating to the right of
the participant to receive Payment of such amount as established by the
Committee) by one or more of the following methods:

     (a)  current payment in cash to the participant;

     (b)  current payment of a portion of the allocation in cash for the
          participant directly to a "Grantor Trust" established by the
          participant, provided such trust is in a form which the Committee
          determines is substantially similar to the trust


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          attached to this Plan as Exhibit A; and current payment of the balance
          of the allocation in cash directly to the participant, provided that
          the payment made directly to the participant shall approximate the
          aggregate federal, state and local individual income taxes (determined
          in accordance with subsection 6.7) attributable to the allocation paid
          pursuant to this paragraph (b); or

     (c)  deferral of payment until such time and in such manner as determined
          in accordance with subsection 5.11.

A participant shall make the preceding direction within 30 days of the date he
is notified of his eligibility to participate in the Plan.  A participant may
change such direction with respect to any future allocation, provided that the
change is made prior to the beginning of the fiscal year to which such
allocation relates.  Payment of a participant's allocation for the 1988 fiscal
year and of any allocations deferred under the Plan prior to such year shall be
made in accordance with the provisions of either or both of paragraphs (a) and
(b) above.  The Committee shall establish and maintain a Trust Account in
accordance with subsection 5.2 and for purposes of subsection 5.4, shall treat
such payment as if it were an allocation made for that fiscal year.

     5.2  SEPARATE ACCOUNTS.  The Committee will maintain two separate Accounts,
a "Deferred Account" and a "Trust Account," in the name of each participant.
The Deferred Account shall be comprised of any allocations the payment of which
is deferred pursuant to subsection 5.1(c) and any adjustments made pursuant to
subsection 5.3.  The Trust Account shall be comprised of any allocations paid in
cash to a participant (including amounts paid to a participant's Grantor Trust)
pursuant to subsection 5.1(b) and any adjustments made pursuant to subsection
5.4.

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     5.3  ADJUSTMENT OF DEFERRED ACCOUNTS.  As of the end of each fiscal year,
the Committee shall adjust each participant's Deferred Account as follows:


     (a)  FIRST, charge an amount equal to any payments made to the participant
          during that year pursuant to subsections 5.11 or 5.12;

     (b)  NEXT, credit an amount equal to the allocation for that year that is
          deferred pursuant to subsection 5.1(c); and

     (c)  FINALLY, credit an amount equal to the Interest Accrual earned for
          that year pursuant to subsection 5.5.

      5.4   ADJUSTMENT OF TRUST ACCOUNTS.  As of the end of each fiscal year,
the Committee shall adjust each participant's Trust Account as follows:

     (a)  FIRST, charge an amount equal to the product of: (i) any payments made
          to the participant during that year from the participant's Grantor
          Trust (other than distributions of trust earnings in excess of the Net
          Interest Accrual authorized by the administrator of the trust to
          provide for the Tax Gross Up under subsection 6.6); multiplied by (ii)
          a fraction, the numerator of which is the balance in the participant's
          Trust Account as of the end of the prior fiscal year and the
          denominator of which is the balance of the participant's Grantor Trust
          (as determined by the administrator of the trust) as of that same
          date;

     (b)  NEXT, credit an amount equal to the allocation for that year that is
          paid to the Participant (including the amount paid to the
          participant's Grantor Trust) pursuant to subsection 5.l(b); and

     (c)  FINALLY, credit an amount equal to the Interest Accrual earned for
          that Year pursuant to subsection 5.5.

     5.5  INTEREST ACCRUALS ON ACCOUNTS.  As of the end of each fiscal year, a
participant's Deferred Account and Trust Account shall be credited with interest
equal to: (a) the average of the

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prime rates of interest charged by the two largest banks located in the City of
Chicago on loans made by them as of January 1 and the end of each month of the
fiscal year; plus (b) two hundred twenty-five (225) basis points.  Such interest
shall be credited on the conditions established by the Committee, provided that
any allocation of an award from the Management Incentive Plan Fund shall be
considered to have been made and credited to a participant's Deferred Account
and Trust Account as of the first day of the fiscal year in which such award is
made regardless of the date upon which the Committee actually makes the
determination to award such allocation.

     5.6  GUARANTEED RATE PAYMENTS.  In addition to any allocation made to a
participant for any fiscal year pursuant to subsection 4.1 which is paid or
deferred pursuant to subsection 5.1, Abbott shall also make a payment to a
participant's Grantor Trust (a "Guaranteed Rate Payment") for any year in which
the net earnings of such trust do not equal or exceed the participant's Net
Interest Accrual for that year.  A participant's "Net Interest Accrual" for a
year is an amount equal to: (a) the Interest Accrual credited to the
participant's Trust Account for that year; less (b) the product of (i) the
amount of such Interest Accrual, multiplied by (ii) the aggregate of the
federal, state and local individual income tax rates (determined in accordance
with subsection 6.7).  The Guaranteed Rate Payment shall equal the difference
between the participant's Net Interest Accrual and the net earnings of the
participant's Grantor Trust for the year, and shall be paid within 90 days of
the end of the fiscal year.

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     5.7  DESIGNATION OF BENEFICIARIES.  Subject to the conditions and
limitations set forth below, each participant, and after a participant's death,
each primary beneficiary designated by a participant in accordance with the
provisions of this subsection 5.7, shall have the right from time to time to
designate a primary beneficiary or beneficiaries and, successive or contingent
beneficiary or beneficiaries to receive unpaid amounts from the participant's
Deferred Account under the Plan and the Predecessor Plans.  Beneficiaries may be
a natural person or persons or a fiduciary, such as a trustee of a trust or the
legal representative of an estate.  Any such designation shall take effect upon
the death of the participant or such beneficiary, as the case may be, or in the
case of any fiduciary beneficiary, upon the termination of all of its duties
(other than the duty to dispose of the right to receive amounts remaining to be
paid under the Plan or a Predecessor Plan).  The conditions and limitations
relating to the designation of beneficiaries are as follows:

     (a)  A nonfiduciary beneficiary shall have the right to designate a further
          beneficiary or beneficiaries only if the original participant or the
          next preceding primary beneficiary, as the case may be, shall have
          expressly so provided in writing; and

     (b)  A fiduciary beneficiary shall designate as a further beneficiary
          or beneficiaries only those persons or other fiduciaries who are
          entitled to receive the amounts payable from the participant's
          account under the trust or estate of which it is a fiduciary.

Any beneficiary designation or grant of any power to any beneficiary under  this
subsection may be exercised only by an instrument in writing, executed by  the
person making the designation or granting

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such power and filed with the Secretary of Abbott during such person's lifetime
or prior to the termination of a fiduciary's duties.  If a deceased participant
or a deceased nonfiduciary beneficiary who had the right to designate a
beneficiary as provided above dies without having designated a further
beneficiary, or if no beneficiary designated as provided above is living or
qualified and acting, the Committee, in its discretion, may direct distribution
of the amount remaining from time to time to either:

     (i)    any one or more or all of the next of kin (including the surviving
            spouse) of the participant or the deceased beneficiary, as the case
            may be, and in such proportions as the Committee determines; or

     (ii)   the legal representative of the estate of the deceased participant
            or deceased beneficiary as the case may be.

     5.8  STATUS OF BENEFICIARIES.  Following a participant's death, the
participant's beneficiary or beneficiaries will be considered and treated as an
inactive participant for all purposes of this Plan.

     5.9  NON-ASSIGNABILITY AND FACILITY OF PAYMENT.  Amounts payable to
participants and their beneficiaries under the Plan are not in any way subject
to their debts and other obligations, and may not be voluntarily or
involuntarily sold, transferred or assigned; provided that the preceding
provisions of this section shall not be construed as restricting in any way a
designation right granted to a beneficiary pursuant to the terms of subsection
5.7.  When a participant or the beneficiary of a participant is under legal
disability, or in the Committee's opinion is in any way incapacitated so as to
be unable to manage his or her financial affairs, the Committee may direct that
payments shall be made to the

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participant's or beneficiary's legal representative, or to a relative or friend
of the participant or beneficiary for the benefit of the participant or
beneficiary, or the Committee may direct the payment or distribution for the
benefit of the participant or beneficiary in any manner that the Committee
determines.

     5.10  PAYER OF AMOUNTS ALLOCATED TO PARTICIPANTS.  Any amount allocated to
a participant in the Plan and any interest credited thereto will be paid by the
employer (or such employer's successor) by whom the participant was employed
during the fiscal year for which any amount was allocated, and for that purpose,
if a participant shall have been employed by two or more employers during any
fiscal year the amount allocated under this Plan for that year shall be an
obligation of each of the respective employers in proportion to the respective
amounts of base salary paid by each of them in that fiscal year.

     5.11  MANNER OF PAYMENT.  Subject to subsections 5.12, a participant shall
elect the timing and manner of payment of his Deferred Account at the time of
his deferral election under subsection 5.l.  The participant may select a
payment method from among alternative payment methods established by the
Committee.

     5.12  PAYMENT UPON TERMINATION FOLLOWING CHANGE IN CONTROL.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Plan or the Predecessor Plans, or
the provisions of any award made under this Plan or the Predecessor Plans, if
employment of any participant with Abbott and its subsidiaries should terminate
for any reason within five (5) years after the date of a Change in Control, the
aggregate unpaid balance of all awards previously made to such participant


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under this Plan and all Predecessor Plans, plus any unpaid interest credited
thereon, shall be paid to the participant in a lump sum within thirty (30) days
following the date of such termination.

      5.13  CHANGE IN CONTROL.  A "Change in Control" shall be deemed to have
occurred on the earliest of the following dates:


     (i)    The date any entity or person (including a "group" as defined in
            Section 13(d)(3) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the
            "Exchange Act")) shall have become the beneficial owner of, or shall
            have obtained voting control over thirty percent (30%) or more of
            the outstanding common shares of Abbott;

     (ii)   The date the shareholders of Abbott approve a definitive agreement
            (A) to merge or consolidate Abbott with or into another corporation,
            in which Abbott is not the continuing or surviving corporation or
            pursuant to which any common shares of Abbott would be converted
            into cash, securities or other property of another corporation,
            other than a merger of Abbott in which holders of common shares
            immediately prior to the merger have the same proportionate
            ownership of common stock of the surviving corporation immediately
            after the merger as immediately before, or (B) to sell or otherwise
            dispose of substantially all the assets of Abbott; or

     (iii)  The date there shall have been a change in a majority ofthe Board of
            Directors of Abbott within a twelve (12) month period unless the
            nomination for election by Abbott's shareholders of each new
            director was approved by the vote of two-thirds of the directors
            then still in office who were in office at the beginning of the
            twelve (12) month period.

     5.14  PROHIBITION AGAINST AMENDMENT.  The provisions of subsections  5.12,
5.13 and this subsection 5.14 may not be amended or deleted, nor  superseded by
any other provision of this Plan, during the period beginning on  the date of a
Change in Control and ending on the date five (5) years  following such Change
in Control.

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                                    SECTION 6

                                  MISCELLANEOUS

     6.1  RULES.  The Committee may establish such rules and regulations as it
may consider necessary or desirable for the effective and efficient
administration of the Plan.

     6.2  MANNER OF ACTION BY COMMITTEE.  A majority of the members of the
Committee qualified to act on any particular question may act by meeting or by
writing signed without meeting, and may execute any instrument or document
required or delegate to one of its members authority to sign.  The Committee
from time to time may delegate the performance of certain ministerial functions
in connection with the Plan, such as the keeping of records, to such person or
persons as the Committee may select.  Except as otherwise expressly provided in
the Plan, the costs of administration of the Plan will be paid by Abbott.  Any
notice required to be given to, or any document required to be filed with the
Committee, will be properly given or filed if mailed or delivered in writing to
the Secretary of Abbott.

     6.3  RELIANCE UPON ADVICE.  The Board of Directors and the Committee may
rely upon any information or advice furnished to it by any Officer of Abbott or
by Abbott's independent auditors, or other consultants, and shall be fully
protected in relying upon such information or advice.  No member of the Board of
Directors or the Committee shall be liable for any act or failure to act on
their part, excepting only any acts done or omitted to be done in bad faith, nor
shall they be liable for any act or failure to act of any other member.

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     6.4  TAXES.  Any employer shall be entitled, if necessary or desirable, to
pay, or withhold the amount of any federal, state or local tax, attributable to
any amounts payable by it under the Plan after giving the person entitled to
receive such amount notice as far in advance as practicable, and may defer
making payment of any amount with respect to which any such tax question may be
pending unless and until indemnified to its satisfaction.

     6.5  RIGHTS OF PARTICIPANTS.  Employment rights of participants with Abbott
and its subsidiaries shall not be enlarged or affected by reason of
establishment of or inclusion as a participant in the Plan.  Nothing contained
in the Plan shall require Abbott or any subsidiary to segregate or earmark any
assets, funds or property for the purpose of payment of any amounts which may
have been deferred.  The Deferred and Trust Accounts established pursuant to
subsection 5.2 are for the convenience of the administration of the Plan and no
trust relationship with respect to such Accounts is intended or should be
implied.  Participant's rights shall be limited to payment to them at the time
or times and in such amounts as are contemplated by the Plan.  Any decision made
by the Board of Directors or the Committee, which is within the sole and
uncontrolled discretion of either, shall be conclusive and binding upon the
other and upon all other persons whomsoever.

     6.6  TAX GROSS UP.  In addition to the allocations provided under
subsection 4.1, each participant (or, if the participant is deceased, the
beneficiary designated under the participant's Grantor Trust) shall be entitled
to a Tax Gross Up payment for each

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year there is a balance in his or her Trust Account.  The "Tax Gross Up" shall
approximate: (a) the amount necessary to compensate the participant (or
beneficiary) for the net increase in the participant's (or beneficiary's)
federal, state and local income taxes as a result of the inclusion in his or her
taxable income of the income of the participant's Grantor Trust and any
Guaranteed Rate Payment for that year; less (b) any distribution to the
participant (or beneficiary) of his or her Grantor Trust's net earnings for that
year; plus (c) an amount necessary to compensate the participant (or
beneficiary) for the net increase in the taxes described in (a) above as a
result of the inclusion in his or her taxable income of any payment made
pursuant to this subsection 6.6.  Payment of the Tax Gross Up shall be made by
the employers (in such proportions as Abbott shall designate) directly from
their general corporate assets.

     6.7  INCOME TAX ASSUMPTIONS.  For purposes of Sections 5 and 6, a
participant's federal income tax rate shall be deemed to be the highest marginal
rate of federal income individual tax in effect in the calendar year in which a
calculation under those Sections is to be made, and state and local tax rates
shall be deemed to be the highest marginal rates of individual income tax in
effect in the state and locality of the participant's residence on the date such
a calculation is made, net of any federal tax benefits.

     6.8  PAYMENT OF PRIOR DEFERRALS.  Notwithstanding any other provision of
this Plan, the Committee, in its absolute discretion, may direct that all or a
portion of the balance in a participant's Deferred Account be paid in accordance
with the provisions of

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subsection 5.1(b).  In such event, the Committee shall establish and maintain a
Trust Account in accordance with subsection 5.2 and, for purposes of subsection
5.4, shall treat such payment as if it were an allocation made for that fiscal
year.

                                    SECTION 7

                      AMENDMENT, TERMINATION AND CHANGE OF
                         CONDITIONS RELATING TO PAYMENTS

     7.1  AMENDMENT AND TERMINATION.  The Plan will be effective from its
effective date until terminated by the Board of Directors.  During the fifth
year after the Plan's effective date and during every fifth year thereafter, the
Committee may recommend to the Board of Directors whether the Plan should be
amended or terminated.  The Board of Directors reserves the right to amend the
Plan from time to time and to terminate the Plan at any time, except that no
such amendment or any termination of the Plan shall reduce any fixed or
contingent obligations which shall have arisen under the Plan prior to the date
of such amendment or termination, or change the terms and conditions of payment
of any allocation theretofore made without the consent of the participant
concerned.

     7.2  CHANGE OF CONDITIONS RELATING TO PAYMENTS.  Following the
establishment by the Committee of any conditions relating to the payment of any
amount allocated to a participant for any fiscal year and any interest credited
thereon (including the time of payment or the time of commencement of payment
and any period over which payment shall be made), neither the Committee nor the
participant concerned, acting unilaterally, shall have the power to change the
conditions originally established by the Committee.  However, in

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order to effectuate the purposes of the Plan, any conditions initially
established by the Committee may be changed thereafter by mutual agreement of
the Committee and the participant concerned.

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                                                                  Exhibit A

                       IRREVOCABLE GRANTOR TRUST AGREEMENT

     THIS AGREEMENT, made this __________ day of ______________, 1991, by and
between _________________________ of __________________, Illinois
(the "grantor"), and The Northern Trust Company located at Chicago, Illinois,
as trustee (the "trustee"),


                                WITNESSETH THAT:


     WHEREAS, the grantor desires to establish and maintain a trust to hold
certain benefits received by the grantor under the 1986 Abbott Laboratories
Management Incentive Plan, as it may be amended from time to time;

     NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS AGREED as follows:


                                    ARTICLE I

                                  INTRODUCTION

     I-1.  NAME.  This agreement and the trust hereby evidenced (the "trust")
may be referred to as the "__________________ 1991 Grantor Trust".

     I-2.  THE TRUST FUND The "trust fund" as at any date means all property
then held by the trustee under this agreement.

     I-3.  STATUS OF THE TRUST.  The trust shall be irrevocable.  The trust is
intended to constitute a grantor trust under Sections 671-678 of the Internal
Revenue Code, as amended, and shall be construed accordingly.

     I-4.  THE ADMINISTRATOR.  Abbott Laboratories ("Abbott") shall act as the
"administrator" of the trust, and as such shall have certain powers, rights and
duties under this agreement as described below.  Abbott will certify to the
trustee from time to time the person or persons authorized to act on behalf of
Abbott as the administrator.  The trustee may rely on the latest certificate
received without further inquiry or verification.

     I-5.  ACCEPTANCE.  The trustee accepts the duties and obligations of the
"trustee" hereunder, agrees to accept funds delivered to it by the grantor or
the administrator, and agrees to hold such funds (and any proceeds from the
investment of such funds) in trust in accordance with this agreement.

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                                   ARTICLE II

                         DISTRIBUTION OF THE TRUST FUND

     II-1.  SEPARATE ACCOUNTS.  The administrator shall maintain two separate
accounts under the trust, a "rollout account" and a "deferred account." Funds
delivered to the trustee shall be allocated between the accounts by the trustee
as directed by the administrator.  As of the end of each calendar year, the
administrator shall charge each account with all distributions made from such
account during that year; and credit each account with its share of income and
realized gains and charge each account with its share of expenses and realized
losses for the year.  The trustee shall not be required to make any separate
investment of the trust fund for the accounts, and may administer and invest all
funds delivered to it under the trust as one trust fund.

     II-2.  DISTRIBUTIONS FROM THE ROLLOUT ACCOUNT PRIOR TO THE GRANTOR'S DEATH.
The trustee shall distribute principal and accumulated income credited to the
rollout account to the grantor, if then living, at such times and in such
amounts as the administrator shall direct.

     II-3.  DISTRIBUTIONS FROM THE DEFERRED ACCOUNT PRIOR TO THE GRANTOR'S
DEATH.  Principal and accumulated income credited to the deferred account shall
not be distributed from the trust prior to the grantor's retirement or other
termination of employment with Abbott or a subsidiary of Abbott (the grantor's
"settlement date"); provided that, each year the administrator may direct the
trustee to distribute to the grantor a portion of the income of the deferred
account for that year, with the balance of such income to be accumulated in that
account.  The administrator shall inform the trustee of the grantor's settlement
date.  Thereafter, the trustee shall distribute the amounts from time to time
credited to the deferred account to the grantor, if then living, in a series of
annual installments, with the amount of each installment computed by one of the
following methods:

     (a)  The amount of each installment shall be equal to the sum of: (i) the
          amount credited to the deferred account as of the end of the year in
          which the grantor's settlement date occurs, divided by the number of
          years over which installments are to be distributed; plus (ii) the net
          earnings credited to the deferred account for the preceding year
          (excluding the year in which the grantor's settlement date occurs).

     (b)  The amount of each installment shall be determined by dividing the
          amount credited to the deferred account as of the end of the preceding
          year by the difference between (i) the total number of years over
          which installments are to be distributed, and

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          (ii) the number of annual installment distributions previously made
          from the deferred account.

     (c)  Each installment (after the first installment) shall be approximately
          equal, with the amount comprised of the sum of: (i) the amount of the
          first installment, plus interest thereon at the rate determined under
          the 1986 Abbott Laboratories Management Incentive Plan, compounded
          annually; and (ii) the net earnings credited to the deferred account
          for the preceding year.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the final installment distribution made to the
grantor under this paragraph II-3 shall equal the total principal and
accumulated income then held in the trust fund.  The grantor, by writing filed
with the trustee and the administrator on or before the end of the calendar year
in which the grantor's settlement date occurs (or the end of the calendar year
in which this trust is established, if the grantor's settlement date has already
occurred), may select both the period (which may not be less than ten years from
the end of the calendar year in which the grantor's settlement date occurred)
over which the installment distributions are to be made and the method of
computing the amount of each installment.  In the absence of such a written
direction by the grantor, installment distributions shall be made over a period
of ten years, and the amount of each installment shall be computed by using the
method described in subparagraph (a) next above.  Installment distributions
under this Paragraph II-3 shall be made as of January 1 of each year, beginning
with the calendar year following the year in which the grantor's settlement date
occurs.  The administrator shall inform the trustee of the amount of each
installment distribution under this paragraph II-3, and the trustee shall be
fully protected in relying on such information received from the administrator.

     II-4.  DISTRIBUTIONS FROM THE TRUST FUND AFTER THE GRANTOR'S DEATH.  The
grantor, from time to time may name any person or persons (who may be named
contingently or successively and who may be natural persons or fiduciaries) to
whom the principal of the trust fund and all accrued or undistributed income
thereof shall be distributed in a lump sum or, if the beneficiary is the
grantor's spouse, in installments, as directed by the grantor, upon the
grantor's death.  If the grantor directs an installment method of distribution,
any amounts remaining at the death of the spouse beneficiary shall be
distributed in a lump sum.  Each designation shall revoke all prior
designations, shall be in writing and shall be effective only when filed by the
grantor with the administrator during the grantor's lifetime.  If the grantor
fails to direct a method of distribution, the distribution shall be made in a
lump sum.  If the grantor fails to designate a beneficiary as provided above,
then on the grantor's death, the trustee shall distribute the balance of the
trust fund in a lump sum to the executor or administrator of the grantor's
estate.

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     II-5.  FACILITY OF PAYMENT.  When a person entitled to a distribution
hereunder is under legal disability, or, in the trustee's opinion, is in any way
incapacitated so as to be unable to manage his or her financial affairs, the
trustee may make such distribution to such person's legal representative, or to
a relative or friend of such person for such person's benefit.  Any distribution
made in accordance with the preceding sentence shall be a full and complete
discharge of any liability for such distribution hereunder.

     II-6.  PERPETUITIES.  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this
agreement, on the day next preceding the end of 21 years after the death of the
last to die of the grantor and the grantor's descendants living on the date of
this instrument, the trustee shall immediately distribute any remaining balance
in the trust to the beneficiaries then entitled to distributions hereunder.


                                   ARTICLE III

                          MANAGEMENT OF THE TRUST FUND

     III-1. GENERAL POWERS.  The trustee shall, with respect to the trust fund,
have the following powers, rights and duties in addition to those provided
elsewhere in this agreement or by law:

     (a)  Subject to the limitations of subparagraph (b) next below, to sell,
          contract to sell, purchase, grant or exercise options to purchase, and
          otherwise deal with all assets of the trust fund, in such way, for
          such considerations, and on such terms and conditions as the trustee
          decides.

     (b)  To retain in cash such amounts as the trustee considers advisable; and
          to invest and reinvest the balance of the trust fund, without
          distinction between principal and income, in obligations of the United
          States Government and its agencies or which are backed by the full
          faith and credit of the United States Government or in any mutual
          fund, common trust fund or collective investment fund which invests
          solely in such obligations; and any such investment made or retained
          by the trustee in good faith shall be proper despite any resulting
          risk or lack of diversification or marketability.

     (c)  To deposit cash in any depositary (including the banking department of
          the bank acting as trustee) without liability for interest, and to
          invest cash in savings accounts or time certificates of deposit
          bearing a reasonable rate of interest in any such depositary.

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     (d)  To invest, subject to the limitations of subparagraph (b) above, in
          any common or commingled trust fund or funds maintained or
          administered by the trustee solely for the investment of trust funds.

     (e)  To borrow from anyone, with the administrator's approval, such sum or
          sums from time to time as the trustee considers desirable to carry out
          this trust, and to mortgage or pledge all or part of the trust fund as
          security.

     (f)  To retain any funds or property subject to any dispute without
          liability for interest and to decline to make payment or delivery
          thereof until final adjudication by a court of competent jurisdiction
          or until an appropriate release is obtained.

     (g)  To begin, maintain or defend any litigation necessary in connection
          with the administration of this trust, except that the trustee shall
          not be obliged or required to do so unless indemnified to the
          trustee's satisfaction.

     (h)  To compromise, contest, settle or abandon claims or demands.

     (i)  To give proxies to vote stocks and other voting securities, to join in
          or oppose (alone or jointly with others) voting trusts, mergers,
          consolidations, foreclosures, reorganizations, liquidations, or other
          changes in the financial structure of any corporation, and to exercise
          or sell stock subscription or conversion rights.

     (j)  To hold securities or other property in the name of a nominee, in a
          depositary, or in any other way, with or without disclosing the trust
          relationship.

     (k)  To divide or distribute the trust fund in undivided interests or
          wholly or partly in kind.

     (l)  To pay any tax imposed on or with respect to the trust; to defer
          making payment of any such tax if it is indemnified to its
          satisfaction in the premises; and to require before making any payment
          such release or other document from any lawful taxing authority and
          such indemnity from the intended payee as the trustee considers
          necessary for its protection.

     (m)  To deal without restriction with the legal representative of the
          grantor's estate or the trustee or other legal representative of any
          trust

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          created by the grantor or a trust or estate in which a beneficiary has
          an interest, even though the trustee, individually, shall be acting in
          such other capacity, without liability for any loss that may result.

     (n)  To appoint or remove by written instrument any bank or corporation
          qualified to act as successor trustee, wherever located, as special
          trustee as to part or all of the trust fund, including property as to
          which the trustee does not act, and such special trustee, except as
          specifically limited or provided by this or the appointing instrument,
          shall have all of the rights, titles, powers, duties, discretions and
          immunities of the trustee, without liability for any action taken or
          omitted to be taken under this or the appointing instrument.

     (o)  To appoint or remove by written instrument any bank, wherever located,
          as custodian of part or all of the trust fund, and each such custodian
          shall have such rights, powers, duties and discretions as are
          delegated to it by the trustee.

     (p)  To employ agents, attorneys, accountants or other persons, and to
          delegate to them such powers as the trustee considers desirable, and
          the trustee shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting on
          the advice of persons so employed without court action.

     (q)  To perform any and all other acts which in the trustee's judgment are
          appropriate for the proper management, investment and distribution of
          the trust fund.

     III-2.  PRINCIPAL AND INCOME.  Any income earned on the trust fund which is
not distributed as provided in Article II shall be accumulated and from time to
time added to the principal of the trust.  The grantor's interest in the trust
shall include all assets or other property held by the trustee hereunder,
including principal and accumulated income.

     III-3.  STATEMENTS.  The trustee shall prepare and deliver monthly to the
administrator and annually to the grantor, if then living, otherwise to each
beneficiary then entitled to distributions under this agreement, a statement (or
series of statements) setting forth (or which taken together set forth) all
investments, receipts, disbursements and other transactions effected by the
trustee during the reporting period; and showing the trust fund and the value
thereof at the end of such period.

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     III-4.  COMPENSATION AND EXPENSES.  All reasonable costs, charges and
expenses incurred in the administration of this trust, including compensation to
the trustee, any compensation to agents, attorneys, accountants and other
persons employed by the trustee, and expenses incurred in connection with the
sale, investment and reinvestment of the trust fund shall be paid from the trust
fund.

                                   ARTICLE IV

                               GENERAL PROVISIONS

     IV-1.  INTERESTS NOT TRANSFERABLE.  The interests of the grantor or other
persons entitled to distributions hereunder are not subject to their debts or
other obligations and may not be voluntarily or involuntarily sold, transferred,
alienated, assigned or encumbered.

     IV-2.  DISAGREEMENT AS TO ACTS.  If there is a disagreement between the
trustee and anyone as to any act or transaction reported in any accounting, the
trustee shall have the right to a settlement of its account by any proper court.

     IV-3.  TRUSTEE'S OBLIGATIONS.  No power, duty or responsibility is imposed
on the trustee except as set forth in this agreement.  The trustee is not
obliged to determine whether funds delivered to or distributions from the trust
are proper under the trust, or whether any tax is due or payable as a result of
any such delivery or distribution.  The trustee shall be protected in making any
distribution from the trust as directed pursuant to Article II without inquiring
as to whether the distributee is entitled thereto; and the trustee shall not be
liable for any distribution made in good faith without written notice or
knowledge that the distribution is not proper under the terms of this agreement.

     IV-4.  GOOD FAITH ACTIONS.  The trustee's exercise or non-exercise of its
powers and discretions in good faith shall be conclusive on all persons.  No one
shall be obliged to see to the application of any money paid or property
delivered to the trustee.  The certificate of the trustee that it is acting
according to this agreement will fully protect all persons dealing with the
trustee.

     IV-5.  WAIVER OF NOTICE.  Any notice required under this agreement may be
waived by the person entitled to such notice.

     IV-6.  CONTROLLING LAW.  The laws of the State of Illinois shall govern the
interpretation and validity of the provisions of this agreement and all
questions relating to the management, administration, investment and
distribution of the trust hereby created.

     IV-7.  SUCCESSORS.  This agreement: shall be binding on all persons
entitled to distributions hereunder and their respective heirs and legal
representatives, and on the trustee and its successors.

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                                    ARTICLE V

                               CHANGES IN TRUSTEE

     V-1.  RESIGNATION OR REMOVAL OF TRUSTEE.  The trustee may resign at any
time by giving thirty days' advance written notice to the administrator and the
grantor.  The administrator may remove a trustee by written notice to the
trustee and the grantor.

     V-2.  APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE.  The administrator shall fill any
vacancy in the office of trustee as soon as practicable by written notice to the
successor trustee; and shall give prompt written notice thereof to the grantor,
if then living, otherwise to each beneficiary then entitled to payments or
distributions under this agreement.  A successor trustee shall be a bank (as
defined in Section 581 of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended).

     V-3.  DUTIES OF RESIGNING OR REMOVED TRUSTEE AND OF SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE.  A
trustee that resigns or is removed shall furnish promptly to the administrator
and the successor trustee an account of its administration of the trust from the
date of its last account.  Each successor trustee shall succeed to the title to
the trust fund vested in its predecessor without the signing or filing of any
instrument, but each predecessor trustee shall execute all documents and do all
acts necessary to vest such title of record in the successor trustee.  Each
successor trustee shall have all the powers conferred by this agreement as if
originally named trustee.  No successor trustee shall be personally liable for
any act or failure to act of a predecessor trustee.  With the approval of the
administrator, a successor trustee may accept the account furnished and the
property delivered by a predecessor trustee without incurring any liability for
so doing, and such acceptance will be complete discharge to the predecessor
trustee.

                                   ARTICLE VI

                            AMENDMENT AND TERMINATION

     VI-1.  AMENDMENT.  With the consent of the administrator, this trust may be
amended from time to time by the grantor, if then living, otherwise by a
majority of the beneficiaries then entitled to payments or distributions
hereunder, except as follows:

     (a)  The duties and liabilities of the trustee cannot be changed
          substantially without its consent.

     (b)  This trust may not be amended so as to make the trust revocable.

     VI-2.  TERMINATION THIS TRUST SHALL NOT TERMINATE, and all rights, titles,
powers, duties, discretions and immunities imposed on or reserved to the
trustee, the administrator, the

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grantor and the beneficiaries shall continue in effect, until all assets of the
trust have been distributed by the trustee as provided in Article II.

                           *          *          *

          IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the grantor and the trustee have executed
this agreement as of the day and year first above written.





                                          ____________________________________
                                          Grantor


                                          The Northern Trust Company as Trustee

                                          By__________________________________

                                          Its_________________________________




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                                                           EXHIBIT 10.10

                      Amended effective September 10, 1993

              ABBOTT LABORATORIES NON-EMPLOYEE DIRECTORS' FEE PLAN


                                    SECTION 1

                                     PURPOSE

     ABBOTT LABORATORIES NON-EMPLOYEE DIRECTORS' FEE PLAN - referred to below
as the "Plan" - has been established by ABBOTT LABORATORIES - referred to
below as the "Company" - to attract and retain as members of its Board of
Directors persons who are not full-time employees of the Company or any of its
subsidiaries but whose business experience and judgment are a valuable asset
to the Company and its subsidiaries.


                                    SECTION 2

                                DIRECTORS COVERED

     As used in the Plan, the term "Director" means any person who is elected
to the Board of Directors of the Company in April, 1962 or at any time
thereafter, and is not a full-time employee of the Company or any of its
subsidiaries.


                                    SECTION 3

                            FEES PAYABLE TO DIRECTORS

     3.1  Each Director shall be entitled to a deferred monthly fee of
Four Thousand One Hundred Sixty-Seven Dollars ($4,167.00) for each calendar
month or portion thereof (excluding the month in which he is first elected a
Director) that he holds such office with the Company.

     3.2  A Director who serves as Chairman of the Executive Committee of
the Board of Directors shall be entitled to a deferred monthly fee of One
Thousand Six Hundred Dollars ($1,600.00) for each calendar month or portion
thereof (excluding the month in which he is first elected to such position)
that he holds such position.

     3.3  A Director who serves as Chairman of the Audit Committee of the
Board of Directors shall be entitled to a deferred monthly fee of Six Hundred
Sixty-Seven Dollars ($667.00) for each calendar month or portion thereof
(excluding the month in which he is first elected to such position) that he
holds such position.

     3.4  A Director who serves as Chairman of the Compensation Committee
of the Board of Directors shall be entitled to a deferred monthly fee of Six
Hundred Sixty-Seven Dollars ($667.00) for each calendar month or portion thereof
(excluding the month in which he is first elected to such position) that he
holds such position.


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     3.5  A Director who serves as Chairman of the Nominations Committee of
the Board of Directors shall be entitled to a deferred monthly fee of Six
Hundred Sixty-Seven Dollars ($667.00) for each calendar month or portion
thereof (excluding the month in which he is first elected to such position)
that he holds such position.

     3.6  A Director who serves as Chairman of any other Committee created
by this Board of Directors shall be entitled to a deferred monthly fee of Six
Hundred Sixty-Seven Dollars ($667.00) for each calendar month or portion
thereof (excluding the month in which he is first elected to such position)
that he holds such position.

     3.7  A Director's Deferred Fee Account shall be credited with interest
annually.  During the calendar years 1968 and prior, the rate of interest
credited to deferred fees shall be four (4) percent per annum.  During the
calendar years 1969 through 1992, the rate of interest credited to deferred
fees shall be the average of the prime rates being charged by two largest
commercial banks in the City of Chicago as of the end of the month coincident
with or last preceding the date upon which said interest is so credited.
During the calendar years 1993 and subsequent, the rate of interest credited
to deferred fees shall be equal to:  (a) the average of the prime rates being
charged by the two largest commercial banks in the City of Chicago as of the
end of the month coincident with or last preceding the date upon which said
interest is so credited; plus (b) two hundred twenty-five (225) basis points.
For purposes of the provisions of the Plan, the term "deferred fees" shall
include "deferred monthly fees," and "deferred meeting fees," and shall also
include any such interest credited thereon.


                                    SECTION 4

                           PAYMENT OF DIRECTORS' FEES

     4.1  A Director's deferred fees earned pursuant to the Plan shall
commence to be paid on the first day of the calendar month next following the
earlier of his death or his attainment of age sixty-five (65) if he is not
then serving as a Director, or the termination of his service as a Director if
he serves as a Director after the attainment of age sixty-five (65); provided
that any Director may, by written notice filed with the Secretary of the
Company, elect to receive current payment of all or any portion of the monthly
and meeting fees earned by him in calendar years subsequent to the calendar
year in which he files such notice (or all or any portion of such fees earned
by him in the calendar year he first becomes a Director, if such notice is
filed within 30 days of becoming a Director), in which case such fees or the
portion thereof so designated earned in such calendar years shall not be
deferred but shall be paid quarterly as earned and no interest shall be
credited thereon.  Such election may be revoked or modified by any Director by
written notice to the Secretary of the Company as to fees to be earned by him
in calendar years subsequent to the calendar year in which he files such
notice.

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     4.2  After a Director's deferred fees shall have commenced to be
payable pursuant to Paragraph 4.1 they shall be payable in annual installments
in the order in which they shall have been deferred (i.e. the deferred fees
for the earliest year of service as a Director will be paid on the date
provided for in Section 4.1, the deferred fees for the next earliest year of
service as a Director will be paid on the anniversary of the payment of the
first installment, etc.).

     4.3  A Director's deferred fees shall continue to be paid until all
deferred fees which he is entitled to receive under the Plan shall have been
paid to him (or, in case of his death, to his beneficiary).

     4.4  Notwithstanding any other provisions of the Plan, if a Director's
service as a Director should terminate for any reason within five (5) years
after the date of a Change in Control, the aggregate unpaid balance of such
Director's deferred fees plus all unpaid interest credited thereon, shall be
paid to such Director in a lump sum within thirty (30) days following the date
of such termination.

     4.5  A "Change in Control" shall be deemed to have occurred on the
earliest of the following dates:

     (i)    The date any entity or person (including a "group" as defined in
            Section 13(d)(3) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the
            "Exchange Act")) shall have become the beneficial owner of, or shall
            have obtained voting control over thirty percent (30%) or more of
            the outstanding common shares of the Company;

     (ii)   The date the shareholders of the Company approve a definitive
            agreement (A) to merge or consolidate the Company with or into
            another corporation, in which the Company is not the continuing or
            surviving corporation or pursuant to which any common shares of the
            company would be converted into cash, securities or other property
            of another corporation, other than a merger of the Company in which
            holders of common shares immediately prior to the merger have the
            same proportionate ownership of common stock of the surviving
            corporation immediately after the merger as immediately before, or
            (B) to sell or otherwise dispose of substantially all the assets of
            the Company; or

     (iii)  The date there shall have been a change in a majority of the Board
            of Directors of the Company within a twelve (12) month period unless
            the nomination for election by the Company's shareholders of each
            new director was approved by the vote of two-thirds of the directors
            then still in office who were in office at the beginning of the
            twelve (12) month period.

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     4.6  The provisions of Paragraphs 4.4 and 4.5 and this Paragraph 4.6
may not be amended or deleted, nor superseded by any other provision of the
Plan, during the period beginning on the date of a Change in Control and
ending on the date five (5) years following such Change in Control.


                                    SECTION 5

                          DIRECTORS' RETIREMENT BENEFIT

     5.1  The Compensation Committee may, in its discretion, grant any
Director who retires from the Board of Directors a monthly retirement benefit
on the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth and such retirement benefit
shall be provided to the surviving spouse of any Director who dies while
serving as a Director.

     5.2  The term "continuous service" shall mean the Director's longest
period of uninterrupted service on the Board of Directors, determined under
the following rules:

     (a)  A Director shall be entitled to one month of
          continuous service for each calendar month or portion
          thereof (excluding the month in which he or she is
          first elected a Director) that the Director holds such
          office with the Company, excluding any month during
          which the Director was a full-time employee of the
          Company or any of its subsidiaries.

     (b)  A Director shall not be entitled to more than one
          hundred twenty (120) months of continuous service.

     5.3  Each Director or surviving spouse who is granted a retirement
benefit hereunder shall receive a monthly benefit equal to the deferred
monthly fee in effect for Directors under Paragraph 3.l as of the date of the
earlier of the Director's death or termination of service as a Director.  The
monthly benefit shall commence to be paid on the first day of the calendar
month next following the earlier of the Director's death or termination of
service as a Director.  Unless the retirement benefit is terminated, the
monthly benefit shall continue to be paid on the first day of each calendar
month thereafter, until the benefit has been paid for a number of months equal
to the Director's continuous service, or until the death of the Director or
surviving spouse, if earlier.  If a Director should retire and be granted a
retirement benefit hereunder and subsequently die with such benefit still in
effect, prior to receipt of all payments due hereunder, the monthly benefit
shall continue to the surviving spouse of such Director until all payments due
hereunder have been made or until the death of the surviving spouse, if
earlier.

     5.4  Each Director who is granted a retirement benefit hereunder shall
make him or herself available for such consultation with the Board of
Directors or any committee or member thereof, as

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may be reasonably requested from time to time by the Chairman of the Board of
Directors, following such Director's termination of service as a Director.
The Company shall reimburse each such Director for all reasonable travel,
lodging and subsistence expenses incurred by the Director at the request of
the Company in rendering such consultation.  The Company may terminate the
retirement benefit if the Director should fail to render such consultation,
unless prevented by disability or other reason beyond the Director's control.

     5.5  It is recognized that during a Director's period of service as a
Director and as a consultant hereunder, a Director will acquire knowledge of
the affairs of the Company and its subsidiaries, the disclosure of which would
be contrary to the best interests of the Company.  Accordingly, the Company
may terminate the retirement benefit if, without the express consent of the
Company, the Director accepts election to the Board of Directors of, acquires
a partnership or proprietary interest in, or renders services as an employee
or consultant to, any business entity which is engaged in substantial
competition with the Company or any of its subsidiaries.

     5.6  An individual will be considered a Director's "surviving spouse"
for purposes of this Section 5 only if the Director and such individual were
married in a religious or civil ceremony recognized under the laws of the
state where the marriage was contracted and the marriage remained legally
effective at the date of the Director's death.


                                    SECTION 6

                        CONVERSION TO COMMON STOCK UNITS

     6.1  Any Director who is then serving as a director may, by written
notice filed with the Secretary of the Company, elect to have all or any
portion of deferred fees previously earned but not yet paid, transferred from
the Director's Deferred Fee Account to a Stock Account maintained on his or
her behalf pursuant to paragraph 9.3.  Any election as to a portion of such
fees shall be expressed as a percentage and the same percentage shall be
applied to all such fees regardless of the calendar year in which earned or to
all deferred fees earned in designated calendar years, as specified by the
Director.  A Director may make no more than one election under this paragraph
6.l in any calendar year.  All such elections may apply only to deferred fees
for which an election has not previously been made and shall be irrevocable.

     6.2  Any Director may, by written notice filed with the Secretary of
the Company, elect to have all or any portion of deferred fees earned
subsequent to the date such notice is filed credited to a Stock Account
established under this Section 6.  Fees covered by such election shall be
credited to such account at the end of each calendar quarter in, or for which,
such fees are earned.  Such election may be revoked or modified by such
Director, by

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written notice filed with the Secretary of the Company, as to deferred fees to
be earned in calendar years subsequent to the calendar year such notice is
filed, but shall be irrevocable as to deferred fees earned prior to such year.

     6.3  Deferred fees credited to a Stock Account under paragraph 6.1
shall be converted to Common Stock Units by dividing the deferred fees so
credited by the closing price of common shares of the Company on the date
notice of election under paragraph 6.1 is received by the Company (or the next
business day, if there are no sales on such date) as reported on the New York
Stock Exchange Composite Reporting System.  Deferred fees credited to a Stock
Account under paragraph 6.2 shall be converted to Common Stock Units by
dividing the deferred fees so credited by the closing price of common shares
of the Company as of the last business day of the calendar quarter for which
the credit is made, as reported on the New York Stock Exchange Composite
Reporting System.

     6.4  Each Common Stock Unit shall be credited with the same cash and
stock dividends, stock splits and other distributions and adjustments as are
received by one common share of the Company.  All cash dividends and other cash
distributions credited to Common Stock Units shall be converted to additional
Common Stock Units by dividing each such dividend or distribution by the
closing price of common shares of the Company on the payment date for such
dividend or distribution, as reported by the New York Stock Exchange Composite
Reporting System.

     6.5  The value of the Common Stock Units credited each Director shall
be paid the Director in cash on the dates specified in paragraph 4.2 (or, if
applicable, paragraph 4.4).  The amount of each payment shall be determined by
multiplying the Common Stock Units payable on each date specified in paragraph
4.2 (or, if applicable, paragraph 4.4) by the closing price of common shares
of the Company on the day prior to that date (or the next preceding business
day if there are no sales on such date), as reported by the New York Stock
Exchange Composite Reporting System.


                                    SECTION 7

                                  MISCELLANEOUS

     7.1  Each Director or former Director entitled to payment of deferred
fees hereunder, from time to time may name any person or persons (who may be
named contingently or successively) to whom any deferred Director's fees
earned by him and payable to him are to be paid in case of his death before he
receives any or all of such deferred Director's fees.  Each designation will
revoke all prior designations by the same Director or former Director, shall
be in form prescribed by the Company, and will be effective only when filed by
the Director or former Director in writing with the Secretary of the Company
during his lifetime.  If a deceased Director or former Director shall have
failed to name a beneficiary in the manner provided above, or if the
beneficiary named by a

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deceased Director or former Director dies before him or before payment of all
the Director's or former Director's deferred Directors' fees, the Company, in
its discretion, may direct payment in a single sum of any remaining deferred
Directors' fees to either:

     (a)  any one or more or all of the next of kin (including the surviving
          spouse) of the Director or former Director, and in such proportions as
          the Company determines; or

     (b)  the legal representative or representatives of the estate of the last
          to die of the Director or former Director and his last surviving
          beneficiary.

The person or persons to whom any deceased Director's or former Director's
deferred Directors' fees are payable under this paragraph will be referred to
as his "beneficiary."

     7.2  Establishment of the Plan and coverage thereunder of any person
shall not be construed to confer any right on the part of such person to be
nominated for reelection to the Board of Directors of the Company, or to be
reelected to the Board of Directors.

     7.3  Payment of deferred Directors' fees will be made only to the
person entitled thereto in accordance with the terms of the Plan, and deferred
Directors' fees are not in any way subject to the debts or other obligations
of persons entitled thereto, and may not be voluntarily or involuntarily sold,
transferred to assigned.  When a person entitled to a payment under the Plan is
under legal disability or, in the Company's opinion, is in any way
incapacitated so as to be unable to manage his financial affairs, the Company
may direct that payment be made to such person's legal representative, or to a
relative or friend of such person for his benefit.  Any payment made in
accordance with the preceding sentence shall be in complete discharge of the
Company's obligation to make such payment under the Plan.

     7.4  Any action required or permitted to be taken by the Company under
the terms of the Plan shall be by affirmative vote of a majority of the
members of the Board of Directors then in office.



                                    SECTION 8

                          AMENDMENT AND DISCONTINUANCE

     While the Company expects to continue the Plan, it must necessarily
reserve, and does hereby reserve, the right to amend or discontinue the Plan
at any time; provided, however, that any amendment or discontinuance of the
Plan shall be prospective in operation only, and shall not affect the payment
of any deferred Directors' fees theretofore earned by any Director, or the
conditions under which any such fees are to be paid or forfeited under the
Plan, unless the Director affected shall expressly consent thereto.

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                                    SECTION 9

                       ALTERNATE PAYMENT OF DEFERRED FEES

     9.1  By written notice filed with the Secretary of the Company prior
to calendar years beginning after December 31, 1988 (or, for the calendar year
he first becomes a Director within 30 days of becoming a Director), a Director
may elect to receive all or any portion of his deferred fees earned in such
calendar years in a lump sum in accordance with the provisions of this Section
9.  An election under this subsection 9.1 may be revoked or modified by the
Director by written notice to the Secretary of the Company as to deferred fees
earned under Section 3 in calendar years beginning after the calendar year in
which he files such notice.  Any amounts that were deferred for calendar years
beginning before January 1, 1989 shall automatically be paid as provided in
this Section 9.

     9.2  If payment of a Director's deferred fees is made pursuant to
paragraph 9.1, a portion of such fees shall be paid in cash for the Director
directly to a "Grantor Trust" established by the Director, provided such trust
is in a form which the Company determines to be substantially similar to the
trust attached to this plan as Exhibit A; and the balance of the deferred fees
shall be paid in cash directly to the Director, provided that the payment made
directly to the Director shall approximate the aggregate federal, state and
local individual income taxes attributable to the deferred fees paid pursuant
to this paragraph 9.2.

     9.3  The Company will establish and maintain four separate accounts in
the name of each Director, "a Deferred Fee Account", a "Deferred Fee Trust
Account", a "Stock Account" and a "Stock Trust Account".  The Deferred Fee
Account shall reflect the deferred fees and interest to be credited to a
Director pursuant to Section 3.  The Deferred Fee Trust Account shall reflect
any deferred fees paid in cash to a Director (including amounts paid to a
Director's Grantor Trust and allocated to the deferred account maintained
thereunder) pursuant to paragraph 9.2 and any adjustments made pursuant to
paragraph 9.4.  The Stock Account shall reflect the deferred fees converted to
Common Stock Units pursuant to Section 6 and any adjustments made pursuant to
that Section.  The Stock Trust Account shall reflect deferred fees that have
been converted to Common Stock Units under Section 6 and paid in cash to a
Director (including amounts paid to a Director's Grantor Trust and allocated
to the stock account maintained thereunder) pursuant to paragraph 9.2 and any
adjustments made pursuant to paragraph 9.5.  The Accounts established pursuant
to this paragraph 9.3 are for the convenience of the administration of the
plan and no trust relationship with respect to such Accounts is intended or
should be implied.

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     9.4  As of the end of each calendar year, the Company shall adjust
each Director's Deferred Fee Trust Account as follows:

     (a)  FIRST, charge an amount equal to the product of: (i) any payments made
          to the Director during that year from the deferred account maintained
          under his or her Grantor Trust (other than distributions of trust
          earnings in excess of the Net Interest Accrual authorized by the
          administrator of the trust to provide for the Tax Gross Up under
          paragraph 9.9 below); multiplied by (ii) a fraction, the numerator of
          which is the balance in the Director's Deferred Fee Trust Account as
          of the end of the prior calendar year and the denominator of which is
          the balance in the deferred account maintained under the Director's
          Grantor Trust (as determined by the administrator of the trust) as of
          that same date;

     (b)  NEXT, credit an amount equal to the deferred fees that have not been
          converted to Common Stock Units that are paid that year to the
          Director (including the amount paid to the Director's Grantor Trust
          and allocated to the deferred account maintained thereunder) pursuant
          to paragraph 9.2; and

     (c)  FINALLY, credit an amount equal to the Interest Accrual earned for
          that year pursuant to paragraph 9.6.

     9.5  As of the end of each calendar year, the Company shall adjust
each Director's Stock Trust Account as follows:

     (a)  FIRST, charge an amount equal to the product of: (i) any payments made
          to the Director during that year from the stock account maintained
          under his or her Grantor Trust (other than distributions of trust
          earnings authorized by the administrator of the trust to provide for
          the Tax Gross Up under paragraph 9.9 below); multiplied by (ii) a
          fraction, the numerator of which is the balance in the Director's
          Stock Trust Account as of the end of the prior calendar year and the
          denominator of which is the balance in the stock account maintained
          under the Director's Grantor Trust (as determined by the administrator
          of the trust) as of that same date;


     (b)  NEXT, credit an amount equal to the deferred fees that have been
          converted to Common Stock Units that are paid that year to the
          Director (including the amount paid to the Director's Grantor Trust
          and allocated to the stock account maintained thereunder) pursuant to
          paragraph 9.2; and

     (c)  FINALLY, credit an amount equal to the Book Value Adjustments to be
          made for that year pursuant to paragraph 9.6.

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     9.6  As of the end of each calendar year, a Director's Deferred Fee
Trust Account shall be credited with interest at the rate described in
paragraph 3.7.  Any amount so credited shall be referred to as a Director's
"Interest Accrual".  As of that same date, a Director's Stock Trust Account
shall be adjusted as provided in paragraph 6.4, and shall also be adjusted to
reflect the increase or decrease in the fair market value of the Company's
common stock determined in accordance with paragraph 6.5.  Such adjustments
shall be referred to as "Book Value Adjustments."

     9.7  In addition to any fees earned by a Director under Section 3 of
this plan or paid under paragraphs 4.1 or 9.1 the Company shall also make a
payment to a Director's Grantor Trust (a "Guaranteed Rate Payment"), to be
credited to the deferred account maintained thereunder, for any year in which
the net income credited to the deferred account maintained under such trust
does not equal or exceed the Director's Net Interest Accrual for that year.  A
Director's "Net Interest Accrual" for a year is an amount equal to: (a) the
Interest Accrual credited to the Director's Deferred Fee Trust Account for
that year; less (b) the product of (i) the amount of such Interest Accrual,
multiplied by (ii) the aggregate of the federal, state and local individual
income tax rates (determined in accordance with paragraph 9.10).  The
Guaranteed Rate Payment shall equal the difference between the Director's Net
Interest Accrual and the net income credited to the deferred account
maintained under the Director's Grantor Trust for the year, and shall be paid
within 90 days of the end of that year.

     9.8  The Company shall also make a payment to a Director's Grantor
Trust (a "Guaranteed Principal Payment"), to be credited to the stock account
maintained thereunder, to the extent the that the balance in the stock account
as of the end of any calendar year is less than 75 percent of the balance of
the Director's Stock Trust Account (net of federal, state and local income
taxes) as of that same date.  For the calendar year in which the last
installment distribution is made from the Director's Grantor Trust, the
payment made under this paragraph 9.8 shall equal the amount, if any, needed
to increase the fair market value of the stock account maintained under the
Director's Grantor Trust; such that if a distribution of the stock account
were then made to the Director, the Director would receive the same amount he
or she would have received (net of federal, state and local income taxes) if
his or her Stock Trust Account were to be distributed on that same date with
the deferred fees that had been allocated to that Account taxed at the
federal, state and local income tax rates in effect on the date the fees were
credited to the Account and the balance of the Account taxed at the federal,
state and local income tax rates in effect on the date of the distribution.
Payments required under this paragraph 9.8 shall be made within 90 days of the
end of the calendar year, except the last payment which shall be made not
later than the due date of the last installment distribution from the
Director's Grantor Trust.

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     9.9  In addition to the fees provided under Section 3, each Director
(or, if the Director is deceased, the beneficiary designated under the
Director's Grantor Trust) shall be entitled to a Tax Gross Up payment for each
year there is a balance in his or her Deferred Fee Trust Account or Stock
Trust Account.  The "Tax Gross Up" shall approximate: (a) the amount necessary
to compensate the Director (or beneficiary) for the net increase in his or her
federal, state and local income taxes as a result of the inclusion in the
Director's (or beneficiary's) taxable income of the income of his or her
Grantor Trust and any Guaranteed Rate and Guaranteed Principal Payments for
that year; less (b) any distribution to the Director (or beneficiary) of his
or her Grantor Trust's net earnings for that year; plus (c) an amount
necessary to compensate the Director (or beneficiary) for the net increase in
the taxes described in (a) above as a result of the inclusion in his or her
taxable income of any payment made pursuant to this paragraph 9.9.

     9.10  For purposes of this Section, a Director's federal income tax
rate shall be deemed to be the highest marginal rate of federal individual
income tax in effect in the calendar year in which a calculation under this
Section is to be made and state and local tax rates shall be deemed to be the
highest marginal rates of individual income tax in effect in the state and
locality of the Director's residence on the date such a calculation is made,
net of any federal tax benefits.  Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, if a
Director is not a citizen or resident of the United States, his or her income
tax rates shall be deemed to be the highest marginal income tax rates actually
imposed on the Director's benefits under this Plan or earnings under his or
her Grantor Trust.

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                                                                       Exhibit A


                       IRREVOCABLE GRANTOR TRUST AGREEMENT


     THIS AGREEMENT, made this ______ day of _______________________, 198__, by
and between __________________________ of ________________, _________________
(the "grantor"), and The Northern Trust Company, located at Chicago, Illinois,
as trustee (the "trustee"),


                                WITNESSETH THAT:

     WHEREAS, the grantor desires to establish and maintain a trust to hold
certain benefits received by the grantor under the Abbott Laboratories
Non-Employee Directors' Fee Plan, as it may be amended from time to time;

     NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS AGREED as follows:


                                    ARTICLE I

                                  INTRODUCTION

     I-1.  NAME.  This agreement and the trust hereby evidenced (the
"trust") may be referred to as the "_______________ 1988 Grantor Trust".

     I-2.  THE TRUST FUND.  The "trust fund" as at any date means all
property then held by the trustee under this agreement.

     I-3.  STATUS OF THE TRUST.  The trust shall be irrevocable.  The trust
is intended to constitute a grantor trust under Sections 671-678 of the
Internal Revenue Code, as amended, and shall be construed accordingly.

     I-4.  THE ADMINISTRATOR.  Abbott Laboratories ("Abbott") shall act as
the "administrator" of the trust, and as such shall have certain powers,
rights and duties under this agreement as described below.  Abbott will
certify to the trustee from time to time the person or persons authorized to
act on behalf of Abbott as the administrator.  The trustee may rely on the
latest certificate received without further inquiry or verification.

     I-5.  ACCEPTANCE.  The trustee accepts the duties and obligations of
the "trustee" hereunder, agrees to accept funds delivered to it by the grantor
or the administrator, and agrees to hold such funds (and any proceeds from the
investment of such funds) in trust in accordance with this agreement.

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                                   ARTICLE II

                         DISTRIBUTION OF THE TRUST FUND

     II-1.  SEPARATE ACCOUNTS.  The administrator shall maintain two
separate accounts under the trust, a "deferred account" and a "stock account."
Funds delivered to the trustee shall be allocated between the accounts by the
trustee as directed by the administrator.  As of the end of each calendar
year, the administrator shall charge each account with all distributions made
from such account during that year; and credit each account with its share of
income and realized gains and charge each account with its share of expenses
and realized losses for the year.  The trustee shall be required to make
separate investments of the trust fund for the accounts, and may not
administer and invest all funds delivered to it under the trust as one trust
fund.


     II-2.  DISTRIBUTIONS PRIOR TO THE GRANTOR'S DEATH.  Principal and
accumulated income shall not be distributed from the trust prior to the
grantor's termination of service as a Director of Abbott (the grantor's
"settlement date"); provided that, each year the administrator may direct the
trustee to distribute to the grantor a portion of the income of the trust fund
for that year, with the balance of such income to be accumulated in the trust.
The administrator shall inform the trustee of the grantor's settlement date.
Thereafter, the trustee shall distribute the trust fund to the grantor, if
then living, in a series of annual installments, commencing on the first day
of the month next following the later of the grantor's settlement date or the
date the grantor attains age 65 years.  The administrator shall inform the
trustee of the number of installment distributions and the amount of each
installment distribution under this paragraph II-2, and the trustee shall be
fully protected in relying on such information received from the
administrator.

     II-3.  DISTRIBUTIONS AFTER THE GRANTOR'S DEATH.  The grantor, from
time to time may name any person or persons (who may be named contingently or
successively and who may be natural persons or fiduciaries) to whom the
principal of the trust fund and all accrued or undistributed income thereof
shall be distributed in a lump sum or, if the beneficiary is the grantor's
spouse, in installments, as directed by the grantor, upon the grantor's death.
If the grantor directs an installment method of distribution, any amounts
remaining at the death of the spouse beneficiary shall be distributed in a
lump sum.  Each designation shall revoke all prior designations, shall be in
writing and shall be effective only when filed by the grantor with the
administrator during the grantor's lifetime.  If the grantor fails to direct a
method of distribution, the distribution shall be made in a lump sum.  If the
grantor fails to designate a beneficiary as provided above, then on the
grantor's death, the trustee shall distribute the balance of the trust fund in
a lump sum to the executor or administrator of the grantor's estate.

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     II-4.  FACILITY OF PAYMENT.  When a person entitled to a distribution
hereunder is under legal disability, or, in the trustee's opinion, is in any
way incapacitated so as to be unable to manage his or her financial affairs,
the trustee may make such distribution to such person's legal representative,
or to a relative or friend of such person for such person's benefit.  Any
distribution made in accordance with the preceding sentence shall be a full
and complete discharge of any liability for such distribution hereunder.

     II-5.  PERPETUITIES.  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this
agreement, on the day next preceding the end of 21 years after the death of
the last to die of the grantor and the grantor's descendants living on the
date of this instrument, the trustee shall immediately distribute any
remaining balance in the trust to the beneficiaries then entitled to
distributions hereunder.


                                   ARTICLE III

                          MANAGEMENT OF THE TRUST FUND

     III-1.  GENERAL POWERS.  The trustee shall, with respect to the trust
fund, have the following powers, rights and duties in addition to those
provided elsewhere in this agreement or by law:

     (a)  Subject to the limitations of subparagraph (b) next below, to sell,
          contract to sell, purchase, grant or exercise options to purchase, and
          otherwise deal with all assets of the trust fund, in such way, for
          such considerations, and on such terms and conditions as the trustee
          decides.

     (b)  To retain in cash such amounts as the trustee considers advisable; and
          to invest and reinvest the balance of the trust fund, without
          distinction between principal and income, in common stock of Abbott
          Laboratories, or in obligations of the United States Government and
          its agencies or which are backed by the full faith and credit of the
          United States Government or in any mutual fund, common trust fund or
          collective investment fund which invests solely in such obligations;
          and any such investment made or retained by the trustee in good faith
          shall be proper despite any resulting risk or lack of diversification
          or marketability.

     (c)  To deposit cash in any depositary (including the banking department of
          the bank acting as trustee) without liability for interest, and to
          invest cash in savings accounts or time certificates of deposit
          bearing a reasonable rate of interest in any such depositary.

     (d)  To invest, subject to the limitations of subparagraph (b) above, in
          any common or commingled trust fund or funds

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          maintained or administered by the trustee solely for the investment of
          trust funds.

     (e)  To borrow from anyone, with the administrator's approval, such sum or
          sums from time to time as the trustee considers desirable to carry out
          this trust, and to mortgage or pledge all or part of the trust fund as
          security.

     (f)  To retain any funds or property subject to any dispute without
          liability for interest and to decline to make payment or delivery
          thereof until final adjudication by a court of competent jurisdiction
          or until an appropriate release is obtained.

     (g)  To begin, maintain or defend any litigation necessary in connection
          with the administration of this trust, except that the trustee shall
          not be obliged or required to do so unless indemnified to the
          trustee's satisfaction.

     (h)  To compromise, contest, settle or abandon claims or demands.

     (i)  To give proxies to vote stocks and other voting securities, to join in
          or oppose (alone or jointly with others) voting trusts, mergers,
          consolidations, foreclosures, reorganizations, liquidations, or other
          changes in the financial structure of any corporation, and to exercise
          or sell stock subscription or conversion rights.

     (j)  To hold securities or other property in the name of a nominee, in a
          depositary, or in any other way, with or without disclosing the trust
          relationship.

     (k)  To divide or distribute the trust fund in undivided interests or
          wholly or partly in kind.

     (l)  To pay any tax imposed on or with respect to the trust; to defer
          making payment of any such tax if it is indemnified to its
          satisfaction in the premises; and to require before making any payment
          such re lease or other document from any lawful taxing authority and
          such indemnity from the intended payee as the trustee considers
          necessary for its Protection.

     (m)  To deal without restriction with the legal representative of the
          grantor's estate or the trustee or other legal representative of any
          trust created by the grantor or a trust or estate in which a
          beneficiary has an interest, even though the trustee, individually,
          shall be acting in such other capacity, without liability for any loss
          that may result.

     (n)  To appoint or remove by written instrument any bank or corporation
          qualified to act as successor trustee, wherever located, as special
          trustee as to part or all of the trust fund, including property as to
          which the trustee does not act, and such special trustee, except as
          specifically limited or

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                                      - 5 -



          provided by this or the appointing instrument, shall have all of the
          rights, titles, powers, duties, discretions and immunities of the
          trustee, without liability for any action taken or omitted to be taken
          under this or the appointing instrument.

     (o)  To appoint or remove by written instrument any bank, wherever located,
          as custodian of part or all of the trust fund, and each such custodian
          shall have such rights, powers, duties and discretions as are
          delegated to it by the trustee.

     (p)  To employ agents, attorneys, accountants or other persons, and to
          delegate to them such powers as the trustee considers desirable, and
          the trustee shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting on
          the advice of Persons so employed without court action.

     (q)  To perform any and all other acts which in the trustee's judgment are
          appropriate for the proper management, investment and distribution of
          the trust fund.

     III-2.  PRINCIPAL AND INCOME.  Any income earned on the trust fund
which is not distributed as provided in Article II shall be accumulated and
from time to time added to the principal of the trust.  The grantor's interest
in the trust shall include all assets or other property held by the trustee
hereunder, including principal and accumulated income.

     III-3.  STATEMENTS.  The trustee shall prepare and deliver monthly to
the administrator and annually to the grantor, if then living, otherwise to
each beneficiary then entitled to distributions under this agreement, a
statement (or series of statements) setting forth (or which taken together set
forth) all investments, receipts, disbursements and other transactions
effected by the trustee during the reporting period; and showing the trust
fund and the value thereof at the end of such period.

     III-4.  COMPENSATION AND EXPENSES.  All reasonable costs, charges and
expenses incurred in the administration of this trust, including compensation
to the trustee, any compensation to agents, attorneys, accountants and other
persons employed by the trustee, and expenses incurred in connection with the
sale, investment and reinvestment of the trust fund shall be paid from the
trust fund.


                                   ARTICLE IV

                               GENERAL PROVISIONS

     IV-1.  INTERESTS NOT TRANSFERABLE.  The interests of the grantor or
other persons entitled to distributions hereunder are not subject to their
debts or other obligations and may not be voluntarily or involuntarily sold,
transferred, alienated, assigned or encumbered.

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                                      - 6 -



     IV-2.  DISAGREEMENT AS TO ACTS.  If there is a disagreement between
the trustee and anyone as to any act or transaction reported in any
accounting, the trustee shall have the right to a settlement of its account by
any proper court.


     IV-3.  TRUSTEE'S OBLIGATIONS.  No power, duty or responsibility is
imposed on the trustee except as set forth in this agreement.  The trustee is
not obliged to determine whether funds delivered to or distributions from the
trust are proper under the trust, or whether any tax is due or payable as a
result of any such delivery or distribution.  The trustee shall be protected
in making any distribution from the trust as directed pursuant to Article II
without inquiring as to whether the distributee is entitled thereto; and the
trustee shall not be liable for any distribution made in good faith without
writ ten notice or knowledge that the distribution is not proper under the
terms of this agreement.

     IV-4.  GOOD FAITH ACTIONS.  The trustee's exercise or non-exercise of
its powers and discretions in good faith shall be conclusive on all persons.
No one shall be obliged to see to the application of any money paid or
property delivered to the trustee.  The certificate of the trustee that it is
acting according to this agreement will fully protect all persons dealing with
the trustee.

     IV-5.  WAIVER OF NOTICE.  Any notice required under this agreement may
be waived by the Person entitled to such notice.

     IV-6.  CONTROLLING LAW.  The laws of the State of Illinois shall
govern the interpretation and validity of the provisions of this agreement and
all questions relating to the management, administration, investment and
distribution of the trust hereby created.

     IV-7.  SUCCESSORS.  This agreement shall be binding on all persons
entitled to distributions hereunder and their respective heirs and legal
representatives, and on the trustee and its successors.


                                    ARTICLE V

                               CHANGES IN TRUSTEE

     V-1.  RESIGNATION OR REMOVAL OF TRUSTEE.  The trustee may resign at
any time by giving thirty days' advance written notice to the administrator
and the grantor.  The administrator may remove a trustee by written notice to
the trustee and the grantor.

     V-2.  APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE.  The administrator shall fill
any vacancy in the office of trustee as soon as practicable by written notice
to the successor trustee; and shall give prompt written notice thereof to the
grantor, if then living, otherwise to each beneficiary then entitled to
payments or

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                                      - 7 -



distributions under this agreement.  A successor trustee shall be a bank (as
defined in Section 581 of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended).

     V-3.  DUTIES OF RESIGNING OR REMOVED TRUSTEE AND OF SUCCESSOR
TRUSTEE.  A trustee that resigns or is removed shall furnish promptly to the
administrator and the successor trustee an account of its administration of
the trust from the date of its last account.  Each successor trustee shall
succeed to the title to the trust fund vested in its predecessor without the
signing or filing of any instrument, but each predecessor trustee shall
execute all documents and do all acts necessary to vest such title of record
in the successor trustee.  Each successor trustee shall have all the powers
conferred by this agreement as if originally named trustee.  No successor
trustee shall be personally liable for any act or failure to act of a
predecessor trustee.  With the approval of the administrator, a successor
trustee may accept the account furnished and the property delivered by a
predecessor trustee without incurring any liability for so doing, and such
acceptance will be complete discharge to the predecessor trustee.


                                   ARTICLE VI

                            AMENDMENT AND TERMINATION

     VI-1.  AMENDMENT.  With the consent of the administrator, this trust
may be amended from time to time by the grantor, if then living, otherwise by
a majority of the beneficiaries then entitled to payments or distributions
hereunder, except as follows:

     (a)  The duties and liabilities of the trustee cannot be changed
          substantially without its consent.

     (b)  This trust may not be amended so as to make the trust revocable.

     VI-2.  TERMINATION.  This trust shall not terminate, and all rights,
titles, powers, duties, discretions and immunities imposed on or reserved to
the trustee, the administrator, the grantor and the beneficiaries shall
continue in effect, until all assets of the trust have been distributed by the
trustee as provided in Article II.

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                                      - 8 -



     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the grantor and the trustee have executed this
agreement as of the day and year first above written.



                                          Grantor_______________________________


                                          The Northern Trust Company, as
                                          Trustee


                                          By____________________________________

                                          Its___________________________________

<PAGE>
                                                                      EXHIBIT 11

                      ABBOTT LABORATORIES AND SUBSIDIARIES
                       COMPUTATION OF PER SHARE EARNINGS
           (DOLLARS AND SHARES IN MILLIONS EXCEPT PER SHARE FIGURES)

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                    YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31
                                                                               --------------------------------
                                                                                 1993        1992        1991
                                                                               --------    --------    --------
<S>                                                                            <C>         <C>         <C>
1.  Net earnings.............................................................  $1,399.1    $1,239.1    $1,088.7
                                                                               --------    --------    --------
2.  Average number of shares outstanding during the year.....................     829.0       844.1       854.1
                                                                               --------    --------    --------
3.  Earnings per share based upon average outstanding share (1.  DIVIDED BY
  2.)........................................................................    $1.69       $1.47       $1.27
                                                                               --------    --------    --------
                                                                               --------    --------    --------
4.  Fully diluted earnings per share:
  a.  Stock options granted and outstanding for which the market price at
   year-end exceeds the option price.........................................      18.7        20.1        25.9
                                                                               --------    --------    --------
                                                                               --------    --------    --------
  b.  Aggregate proceeds to the Company from the exercise of options in
   4.a.......................................................................    $297.0      $295.1      $354.4
                                                                               --------    --------    --------
                                                                               --------    --------    --------
  c.  Market price of the Company's common stock at year-end.................   $29.63      $30.38      $34.44
                                                                               --------    --------    --------
                                                                               --------    --------    --------
  d.  Shares which could be repurchased under the treasury stock method (4.b.
   + 4.c.)...................................................................      10.0         9.7        10.3
                                                                               --------    --------    --------
                                                                               --------    --------    --------
  e.  Addition to average outstanding shares (4.a. - 4.d.)...................       8.7        10.4        15.6
                                                                               --------    --------    --------
                                                                               --------    --------    --------
  f.  Shares for fully diluted earnings per share calculation (2. + 4.e.)....     837.7       854.5       869.7
                                                                               --------    --------    --------
                                                                               --------    --------    --------
  g.  Fully diluted earnings per share (1. + 4.f.)...........................    $1.67       $1.45       $1.25
                                                                               --------    --------    --------
                                                                               --------    --------    --------
</TABLE>

<PAGE>
                                                                      EXHIBIT 11

                      ABBOTT LABORATORIES AND SUBSIDIARIES
                       COMPUTATION OF PER SHARE EARNINGS
           (DOLLARS AND SHARES IN MILLIONS EXCEPT PER SHARE FIGURES)

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                    YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31
                                                                               --------------------------------
                                                                                 1993        1992        1991
                                                                               --------    --------    --------
<S>                                                                            <C>         <C>         <C>
1.  Net earnings.............................................................  $1,399.1    $1,239.1    $1,088.7
                                                                               --------    --------    --------
2.  Average number of shares outstanding during the year.....................     829.0       844.1       854.1
                                                                               --------    --------    --------
3.  Earnings per share based upon average outstanding share (1.  DIVIDED BY
  2.)........................................................................    $1.69       $1.47       $1.27
                                                                               --------    --------    --------
                                                                               --------    --------    --------
4.  Fully diluted earnings per share:
  a.  Stock options granted and outstanding for which the market price at
   year-end exceeds the option price.........................................      18.7        20.1        25.9
                                                                               --------    --------    --------
                                                                               --------    --------    --------
  b.  Aggregate proceeds to the Company from the exercise of options in
   4.a.......................................................................    $297.0      $295.1      $354.4
                                                                               --------    --------    --------
                                                                               --------    --------    --------
  c.  Market price of the Company's common stock at year-end.................   $29.63      $30.38      $34.44
                                                                               --------    --------    --------
                                                                               --------    --------    --------
  d.  Shares which could be repurchased under the treasury stock method (4.b.
   + 4.c.)...................................................................      10.0         9.7        10.3
                                                                               --------    --------    --------
                                                                               --------    --------    --------
  e.  Addition to average outstanding shares (4.a. - 4.d.)...................       8.7        10.4        15.6
                                                                               --------    --------    --------
                                                                               --------    --------    --------
  f.  Shares for fully diluted earnings per share calculation (2. + 4.e.)....     837.7       854.5       869.7
                                                                               --------    --------    --------
                                                                               --------    --------    --------
  g.  Fully diluted earnings per share (1. + 4.f.)...........................    $1.67       $1.45       $1.25
                                                                               --------    --------    --------
                                                                               --------    --------    --------
</TABLE>

<PAGE>

                                                                      Exhibit 13

The portions of the Abbott Laboratories Annual Report for the year ended
December 31, 1993 captioned Financial Review, Consolidated Balance Sheet,
Consolidated Statement of Earnings, Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows,
Consolidated Statement of Shareholders' Investment, Notes to Consolidated
Financial Statements, Report of Independent Public Accountants, and the
applicable portions of the section captioned Summary of Financial Data
for the years 1989 through 1993.

                      Abbott Laboratories and Subsidiaries

                           CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET

                             (Dollars in Thousands)

                                     ASSETS


<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                December 31
                                                  ----------------------------------------
                                                     1993           1992           1991
                                                  ----------     ----------     ----------
<S>                                               <C>            <C>            <C>
Current Assets:
  Cash and cash equivalents....................   $  300,676     $  116,576     $   60,395
  Investment securities, at cost...............       78,149        141,601         85,838
  Trade receivables, less allowances of -
  1993: $116,925; 1992: $106,857; 1991: $82,244    1,336,222      1,244,396      1,150,894
  Inventories -
    Finished products..........................      476,548        421,932        406,026
    Work in process............................      216,493        190,163        186,591
    Materials..................................      247,492        251,713        222,768
                                                  ----------     ----------     ----------
      Total inventories........................      940,533        863,808        815,385
                                                  ----------     ----------     ----------
  Prepaid income taxes.........................      458,026        477,387        425,442
  Other prepaid expenses and receivables.......      471,929        387,970        353,114
                                                  ----------     ----------     ----------
      Total Current Assets.....................    3,585,535      3,231,738      2,891,068
                                                  ----------     ----------     ----------
Investment Securities Maturing After One Year,
  at Cost......................................      221,815        270,639        340,184
                                                  ----------     ----------     ----------
Property And Equipment, at cost:
  Land.........................................      137,636        120,617         64,984
  Buildings....................................    1,261,620      1,064,974        950,810
  Equipment....................................    4,169,279      3,735,259      3,304,062
  Construction in progress.....................      652,611        576,291        465,367
                                                  ----------     ----------     ----------
                                                   6,221,146      5,497,141      4,785,223
  Less: accumulated depreciation
    and amortization...........................    2,710,155      2,397,903      2,123,140
                                                  ----------     ----------     ----------
      Net Property and Equipment...............    3,510,991      3,099,238      2,662,083

Deferred Charges and Other Assets..............      370,228        339,621        361,931
                                                  ----------     ----------     ----------
                                                  $7,688,569     $6,941,236     $6,255,266
                                                  ==========     ==========     ==========
</TABLE>

The accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements are an integral part
of this statement.

<PAGE>

                                                                      Exhibit 13

                      Abbott Laboratories and Subsidiaries

                           CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET

                             (Dollars in Thousands)

                    LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' INVESTMENT


<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                December 31
                                                  ----------------------------------------
                                                     1993           1992           1991
                                                  ----------     ----------     ----------
<S>                                               <C>            <C>            <C>
Current Liabilities:
  Short-term borrowings.......................... $  841,514     $  909,116     $  523,526
  Trade accounts payable.........................    638,509        597,226        522,397
  Salaries, wages and commissions................    215,432        196,259        212,394
  Other accrued liabilities......................    933,049        905,877        649,744
  Dividends payable..............................    139,600        125,300        106,297
  Income taxes payable...........................    324,749         41,583        194,255
  Current portion of long-term debt..............      2,080          7,147         20,724
                                                  ----------     ----------     ----------
    Total Current Liabilities....................  3,094,933      2,782,508      2,229,337
                                                  ----------     ----------     ----------
Long-Term Debt...................................    306,840        110,018        125,118
                                                  ----------     ----------     ----------
Other Liabilities and Deferrals:
  Deferred income taxes..........................     51,383        321,301        347,245
  Other..........................................    560,484        379,768        350,579
                                                  ----------     ----------     ----------
    Total Other Liabilities and Deferrals........    611,867        701,069        697,824
                                                  ----------     ----------     ----------

Shareholders' Investment:
  Preferred shares, one dollar par value
  Authorized - 1,000,000 shares, none issued.....          -              -              -
  Common shares, without par value
  Authorized - 1,200,000,000 shares
  Issued at stated capital amount -
  1993: 830,941,614 shares; 1992: 846,017,815
  shares; 1991: 860,765,782 shares...............    469,828        442,390        361,008

Earnings employed in the business................  3,364,952      2,990,689      2,867,857
Cumulative translation adjustments...............   (100,716)       (23,131)        37,621
                                                  ----------     ----------     ----------
                                                   3,734,064      3,409,948      3,266,486
Less:
Common shares held in treasury, at cost -
  1993: 9,811,930 shares; 1992: 9,965,386 shares;
  1991: 10,236,556 shares........................     51,783         52,593         54,024
  Unearned compensation - restricted stock awards      7,352          9,714          9,475
                                                  ----------     ----------     ----------
    Total Shareholders' Investment...............  3,674,929      3,347,641      3,202,987
                                                  ----------     ----------     ----------
                                                  $7,688,569     $6,941,236     $6,255,266
                                                  ==========     ==========     ==========
</TABLE>

<PAGE>

                                                                      Exhibit 13

                      Abbott Laboratories and Subsidiaries

                       CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF EARNINGS

                  (Dollars in Thousands Except Per Share Data)


<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                           Year Ended December 31
                                                  ----------------------------------------
                                                     1993           1992           1991
                                                  ----------     ----------     ----------
<S>                                               <C>            <C>            <C>
Net Sales........................................  $8,407,843     $7,851,912     $6,876,588
                                                   ----------     ----------     ----------
  Cost of products sold..........................   3,684,727      3,505,273      3,139,972
  Research and development.......................     880,974        772,407        666,336
  Selling, general and administrative............   1,988,176      1,833,220      1,513,250
  Provision for product withdrawal...............     (70,000)       215,000              -
                                                   ----------     ----------     ----------
    Total Operating Cost and Expenses............   6,483,877      6,325,900      5,319,558
                                                   ----------     ----------     ----------
Operating Earnings...............................   1,923,966      1,526,012      1,557,030
Interest expense.................................      54,283         52,961         63,831
Interest and dividend income.....................     (37,821)       (42,250)       (45,117)
Other (income) expense, net......................     (35,726)        48,534         (5,906)
Gain on sale of investment.......................           -       (271,986)             -
                                                   ----------     ----------     ----------
Earnings Before Taxes............................   1,943,230      1,738,753      1,544,222

Taxes on earnings................................     544,104        499,696        455,545
                                                   ----------     ----------     ----------
Earnings Before Extraordinary Gain and
  Accounting Change..............................   1,399,126      1,239,057      1,088,677
Extraordinary Gain, Net of Tax of $74,068........           -              -        128,182
Cumulative Effect of Accounting Change,
  Net of Tax of $78,151..........................           -              -       (128,114)
                                                   ----------     ----------     ----------
Net Earnings.....................................  $1,399,126     $1,239,057     $1,088,745
                                                   ==========     ==========     ==========

Earnings Per Common Share Before
  Extraordinary Gain and Accounting Change.......       $1.69          $1.47          $1.27
Extraordinary Gain, Net of Tax...................           -              -            .15
Cumulative Effect of Accounting Change,
  Net of Tax.....................................           -              -           (.15)
                                                        -----          -----          -----
Earnings Per Common Share........................       $1.69          $1.47          $1.27
                                                        =====          =====          =====

Average Number of Common Shares Outstanding...... 828,988,000    844,122,000    854,062,000
                                                 ============    ===========    ===========
</TABLE>

The accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements are an integral part
of this statement.

<PAGE>

                                                                      Exhibit 13

                      Abbott Laboratories and Subsidiaries

                      CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS

                             (Dollars in Thousands)


<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                           Year Ended December 31
                                                  ----------------------------------------
                                                     1993           1992           1991
                                                  ----------     ----------     ----------
<S>                                               <C>            <C>            <C>
Cash Flow From (Used In) Operating Activities:
  Net earnings................................... $1,399,126     $1,239,057     $1,088,745
  Adjustments to reconcile net earnings to
  net cash from operating activities -
  Depreciation and amortization..................    484,081        427,782        379,017
  Exchange (gains) losses, net...................     41,795         24,925          7,830
  Investing and financing (gains) losses, net....     (6,038)        36,511         35,370
  Trade receivables..............................   (192,451)      (181,085)      (139,768)
  Inventories....................................    (91,490)      (109,087)       (44,818)
  Prepaid expenses and other assets..............    (93,759)      (114,009)      (221,698)
  Trade accounts payable and other liabilities...    375,645        121,741        344,516
  Provision for product withdrawal...............    (70,000)       215,000              -
  Gain on sale of investment.....................          -       (271,986)             -
  Extraordinary gain.............................          -              -       (202,250)
  Accounting change..............................          -              -        206,265
                                                  ----------     ----------     ----------
    Net Cash From Operating Activities...........  1,846,909      1,388,849      1,453,209
                                                  ----------     ----------     ----------

Cash Flow From (Used In) Investing Activities:
  Acquisitions of property, equipment
    and businesses...............................   (952,732)    (1,007,247)      (770,611)
  Purchases of investment securities.............   (335,915)      (178,727)      (284,092)
  Proceeds from sales of investment securities...    447,983        496,120        398,682
  Other..........................................     46,826         22,277         13,915
                                                  ----------     ----------     ----------
    Net Cash Used in Investing Activities........   (793,838)      (667,577)      (642,106)
                                                  ----------     ----------     ----------

Cash Flow From (Used In) Financing Activities:
  Proceeds from borrowings with original
    maturities of more than 3 months.............    289,429        196,487        344,162
  Repayments of borrowings with original
    maturities of more than 3 months.............   (197,090)      (213,833)      (241,735)
  Proceeds from (repayments of) other borrowings.     30,124        381,848       (211,991)
  Purchases of common shares.....................   (465,822)      (607,598)      (317,811)
  Proceeds from stock options exercised..........     27,536         74,027         57,898
  Dividends paid.................................   (548,044)      (488,413)      (410,345)
                                                  ----------     ----------     ----------
    Net Cash Used in Financing Activities........   (863,867)      (657,482)      (779,822)
                                                  ----------     ----------     ----------
</TABLE>

<PAGE>

                                                                      Exhibit 13

                      Abbott Laboratories and Subsidiaries

                CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS (CONTINUED)

                             (Dollars in Thousands)


<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                           Year Ended December 31
                                                  ----------------------------------------
                                                     1993           1992           1991
                                                  ----------     ----------     ----------
<S>                                               <C>            <C>            <C>
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and
  cash equivalents...............................     (5,104)        (7,609)        (4,920)
                                                  ----------     ----------     ----------
Net Increase in Cash and Cash Equivalents........    184,100         56,181         26,361

Cash and Cash Equivalents, Beginning of Year.....    116,576         60,395         34,034
                                                  ----------     ----------     ----------
Cash and Cash Equivalents, End of Year........... $  300,676     $  116,576     $   60,395
                                                  ==========     ==========     ==========

Supplemental Cash Flow Information:
  Income taxes paid.............................. $  332,834     $  702,897     $  651,442
  Interest paid..................................     52,477         58,709         59,915
</TABLE>



The accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements are an integral part
of this statement.

<PAGE>

                                                                      Exhibit 13

                      Abbott Laboratories and Subsidiaries

               CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF SHAREHOLDER'S INVESTMENT

                  (Dollars in Thousands Except Per Share Data)


<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                           Year Ended December 31
                                                  ----------------------------------------
                                                     1993           1992           1991
                                                  ----------     ----------     ----------
<S>                                               <C>            <C>            <C>
Common Shares:
  Issued at Beginning of Year
    Shares: 1993: 846,017,815;
    1992: 860,765,782; 1991: 868,573,972......... $  442,390     $  361,008     $  297,522
  Issued under incentive stock programs
    Shares: 1993: 2,602,920; 1992: 5,865,601;
    1991: 4,856,024..............................     29,619         61,683         49,423
  Tax benefit from sale of option shares and
    vesting of restricted stock awards
    (no share effect)............................      8,300         29,800         19,000
  Retired - Shares: 1993: 17,679,121;
    1992: 20,613,568; 1991: 12,664,214...........    (10,481)       (10,101)        (4,937)
  Issued at End of Year                           ----------     ----------     ----------
    Shares: 1993: 830,941,614;
    1992: 846,017,815; 1991: 860,765,782......... $  469,828     $  442,390     $  361,008
                                                  ==========     ==========     ==========

Earnings Employed in the Business:
  Balance at Beginning of Year................... $2,990,689     $2,867,857     $2,528,033
  Net earnings...................................  1,399,126      1,239,057      1,088,745
  Cash dividends declared on common shares
    (per share-1993: $.68; 1992: $.60;
    1991: $.50)..................................   (562,344)      (507,416)      (426,622)
  Cost of common shares and share rights
    retired in excess of stated capital amount...   (465,724)      (614,953)      (323,399)
  Cost of treasury shares issued below market
    value of restricted stock awards.............      3,205          6,144          1,100
                                                  ----------     ----------     ----------
  Balance at End of Year......................... $3,364,952     $2,990,689     $2,867,857
                                                  ==========     ==========     ==========

Cumulative Translation Adjustments:
  Balance at Beginning of Year................... $  (23,131)    $   37,621     $   74,328
  Translation adjustments........................    (77,695)       (62,380)       (36,750)
  Allocated income taxes.........................        110          1,628             43
                                                  ----------     ----------     ----------
  Balance at End of Year......................... $ (100,716)    $  (23,131)    $   37,621
                                                  ==========     ==========     ==========
</TABLE>

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                                                                      Exhibit 13

                      Abbott Laboratories and Subsidiaries

         CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF SHAREHOLDER'S INVESTMENT (CONTINUED)

                  (Dollars in Thousands Except Per Share Data)


<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                           Year Ended December 31
                                                  ----------------------------------------
                                                     1993           1992           1991
                                                  ----------     ----------     ----------
<S>                                               <C>            <C>            <C>
Common Shares Held in Treasury:
  Balance at Beginning of Year
    Shares: 1993: 9,965,386; 1992: 10,236,556;
    1991: 10,292,868............................. $   52,593     $   54,024     $   54,321
  Issued under incentive stock programs
    Shares: 1993: 153,456; 1992: 271,170;
    1991: 56,312.................................       (810)        (1,431)          (297)
  Balance at End of Year                          ----------     ----------     ----------
    Shares: 1993: 9,811,930; 1992: 9,965,386;
    1991: 10,236,556............................. $   51,783     $   52,593     $   54,024
                                                  ==========     ==========     ==========

Unearned Compensation - Restricted Stock Awards:
  Balance at Beginning of Year................... $    9,714     $    9,475     $   11,945
  Issued at market value - Shares: 1993: 144,000;
    1992: 254,000; 1991: 46,000..................      3,771          7,079          1,134
  Lapses - Shares: 1993: 42,800; 1992: 38,000;
    1991: 18,000.................................       (887)          (637)          (301)
  Amortization...................................     (5,246)        (6,203)        (3,303)
                                                  ----------     ----------     ----------
  Balance at End of Year......................... $    7,352     $    9,714     $    9,475
                                                  ==========     ==========     ==========
</TABLE>

The accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements are an integral part
of this statement.

<PAGE>

                                                                      Exhibit 13

                      Abbott Laboratories and Subsidiaries

                   NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

                                December 31, 1993


NOTE 1 - SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Basis of Consolidation
- ----------------------
The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the parent company
and subsidiaries, after elimination of intercompany transactions.  The accounts
of foreign subsidiaries are consolidated as of November 30.

Cash and Cash Equivalents
- -------------------------
Cash equivalents consist of time deposits and certificates of deposit with
original maturities of three months or less.  The carrying amount of cash and
cash equivalents approximated fair value as of December 31, 1993 and 1992.

Inventories
- -----------
Inventories are stated at the lower of cost (first-in, first-out basis) or
market.  Cost includes material and conversion costs.

Property and Equipment
- ----------------------
Depreciation and amortization are provided on the straight-line method over the
estimated useful lives of the assets.

Product Liability
- -----------------
Provisions are made for the portions of probable losses which are not covered by
product liability insurance.

Financial Instruments
- ---------------------
The Company enters into foreign exchange contracts and foreign currency option
contracts to manage its exposure to foreign currency rate changes.  At December
31, 1993, 1992, and 1991, the Company held approximately $536 million,
$673 million, and $1.5 billion, respectively, of such instruments.  The
instruments held at December 31, 1993, primarily in European and Japanese
currencies, mature through 1995.  Realized and unrealized gains and losses on
contracts that qualify as hedges of anticipated purchases are recognized in the
same period that the foreign currency exposure is recognized.  At December 31,
1993, 1992, and 1991, approximately $2.0 million, $1.0 million, and
$7.4 million, respectively, of net losses had been deferred.  Gains and losses
on contracts that do not qualify for hedge accounting are recognized in income
as foreign currency exchange rates change.

The Company also enters into a variety of interest rate hedge contracts in the
management of interest rate exposures.  At December 31, 1993 and 1991, the
Company held $200 million of such instruments, which mature through 1995; and at
December 31, 1992, held $300 million of such instruments.  Gains or losses are
recognized in income in the same period that the interest rate exposure is
recognized.

<PAGE>

                                                                      Exhibit 13

                      Abbott Laboratories and Subsidiaries

             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)

                                December 31, 1993


The net asset (liability) recorded at December 31, 1993 and 1992 for foreign
exchange, foreign currency option and interest rate contracts was $9.8 million
and $(9.3) million, respectively, compared with the respective fair value of the
net asset (liability) of $5.6 million and $(9.8) million.

Fair value is the quoted market price of the instrument held or the quoted
market price of a similar instrument.  Disclosure of fair value is not required
for December 31, 1991.

Translation Adjustments
- -----------------------
For foreign operations in highly inflationary economies, translation gains and
losses are included in other (income) expense, net.  For remaining foreign
operations, translation adjustments are included as a component of shareholders'
investment.

Earnings per Common Share
- -------------------------
Earnings per common share amounts are computed using the weighted average number
of common shares outstanding.


NOTE 2 - DEBT AND LINES OF CREDIT
(dollars in thousands)

The following is a summary of long-term debt at December 31:

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                              1993        1992        1991
                                            --------    --------    --------
<S>                                         <C>         <C>         <C>
5.6% debentures, due 2003.................  $200,000    $      -    $      -
Industrial revenue bonds at various
 rates of interest, averaging 4.0%
 at December 31, 1993, and due at
 various dates through 2023...............    82,600      82,600      82,600
Other, principally foreign affiliate
 borrowings at various rates of
 interest, averaging 4.7% at
 December 31, 1993, and due at
 various dates through 1998...............    24,240      27,418      42,518
                                            --------    --------    --------
Total, net of current maturities..........   306,840     110,018     125,118
Current maturities of long-term debt......     2,080       7,147      20,724
                                            --------    --------    --------
Total carrying amount.....................  $308,920    $117,165    $145,842
                                            ========    ========    ========
Total fair market value...................  $304,038    $115,568
                                            ========    ========
</TABLE>

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                                                                      Exhibit 13

                      Abbott Laboratories and Subsidiaries

             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)

                                December 31, 1993


Payments required on long-term debt outstanding at December 31, 1993, are
$19,969 in 1995, $1,399 in 1996, $4,209 in 1997, and $2,460 in 1998.

At December 31, 1993, there were $300,000 of domestic lines of credit, none of
which were used.  Related compensating balances, which are subject to withdrawal
by the Company at its option, and commitment fees are not material.  The Company
may issue up to $300,000 of senior debt securities in the future under a
registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in
1993.

At December 31, 1993 and 1992, the carrying amount of short-term borrowings
approximated fair value.


NOTE 3 - BENEFIT PLANS
(dollars in thousands)

Retirement plans consist of defined benefit, defined contribution, and medical
and dental plans.

Pension benefits for the Company's defined benefit plans generally are based on
the employee's years of service and compensation near retirement.  Certain plan
benefits would vest and certain restrictions on the use of plan assets would
take effect upon a change in control of the Company.

Net pension cost for the Company's significant defined benefit plans includes
the following components:

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                         1993         1992         1991
                                                       --------     --------     --------
<S>                                                    <C>          <C>          <C>
Service cost - benefits earned during the year..        $ 59,381    $ 52,128     $ 46,428
Interest cost on projected benefit obligations..          84,864      76,355       68,380
Return on assets................................        (128,221)    (46,128)    (267,341)
Net amortization and deferral...................            (729)    (74,779)     159,513
                                                        --------    --------     --------
Net pension cost................................        $ 15,295    $  7,576     $  6,980
                                                        ========    ========     ========
</TABLE>

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                                                                      Exhibit 13

                      Abbott Laboratories and Subsidiaries

             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)

                                December 31, 1993


The plans' funded status at December 31 was as follows:

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                           1993        1992        1991
                                                         --------    --------    --------
<S>                                                      <C>         <C>         <C>
Actuarial present value of benefit obligations -
  Vested benefits...............................         $791,435    $620,537    $549,748
  Nonvested benefits............................           97,985      82,557      69,608
                                                         --------    --------    --------
Accumulated benefit obligations.................         $889,420    $703,094    $619,356
                                                         ========    ========    ========

<CAPTION>
                                                          1993        1992        1991
                                                       ----------  ----------  ----------
<S>                                                    <C>         <C>         <C>
Plans' assets at fair value, principally
  listed securities.............................       $1,342,541  $1,244,881  $1,243,518
Actuarial present value of projected
  benefit obligations...........................        1,198,768     951,603     857,741
                                                       ----------  ----------  ----------
Projected benefit obligations
  less than plans' assets.......................          143,773     293,278     385,777
Unrecognized net transitional asset.............          (74,710)    (85,563)    (98,152)
Unrecognized prior service cost.................           30,951      32,455      34,344
Unrecognized net gain...........................          (57,724)   (199,779)   (276,254)
                                                       ----------  ----------  ----------
Net prepaid pension cost........................       $   42,290  $   40,391  $   45,715
                                                       ==========  ==========  ==========
</TABLE>

Assumptions used for the Company's major defined benefit plan as of December 31
include:

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                        1993        1992        1991
                                                      --------    --------    --------
<S>                                                   <C>         <C>         <C>
Discount rate for determining obligations
  and interest cost.............................        7 1/4%        9%          9%
Expected aggregate average long-term change
  in compensation...............................            4%        6%          6%
Expected long-term rate of return on assets.....            9%       10%         10%
</TABLE>

The principal defined contribution plan is the stock retirement plan.  Company
contributions to this plan were $41,225 in 1993, $37,055 in 1992, and $31,254 in
1991, equal to 7.33 percent of dividends, as provided under the plan.

The Company provides certain medical and dental benefits to qualifying domestic
retirees.  Effective January 1, 1991, the Company adopted Statement of Financial
Accounting Standards No. 106 "Employers' Accounting for Postretirement Benefits
Other Than Pensions."  The Company recorded the transition obligation as the
cumulative effect of an accounting change.

<PAGE>
                                                                      Exhibit 13

                      Abbott Laboratories and Subsidiaries

             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)

                                December 31, 1993

Net postretirement health care cost includes the following components:

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                       1993        1992        1991
                                                     -------     -------     -------
<S>                                                  <C>         <C>         <C>
Service cost - benefits earned during the year       $16,823     $14,681     $ 9,194
Interest cost on accumulated postretirement
  benefit obligations...........................      29,266      25,355      18,073
Return on assets................................      (9,239)     (6,489)    (15,453)
Net amortization and deferral...................       2,393        (583)      8,794
                                                     -------     -------     -------
Net postretirement health care cost.............     $39,243     $32,964     $20,608
                                                     =======     =======     =======
</TABLE>

The plans' funded status at December 31 was as follows:

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                      1993        1992         1991
                                                   ---------   ---------    ---------
<S>                                                <C>         <C>          <C>
Actuarial present value of benefit obligations -
  Retirees......................................   $ 171,231   $ 115,463    $ 100,381
  Fully eligible active participants............     117,158      72,659       58,078
  Other active participants.....................     162,219     127,688       64,759
                                                   ---------   ---------    ---------
Accumulated postretirement benefit obligations..     450,608     315,810      223,218
Plans' assets at fair value, principally
  listed securities.............................     100,920      91,778       86,018
                                                   ---------   ---------    ---------
Accumulated postretirement benefit obligations
  in excess of plans' assets....................    (349,688)   (224,032)    (137,200)
Unrecognized net loss (gain)....................     161,692      58,125       (7,577)
                                                   ---------   ---------    ---------
Accrued postretirement health care cost.........   $(187,996)  $(165,907)   $(144,777)
                                                   =========   =========    =========
</TABLE>

Assumptions used for the Company's retiree health care plans as of December 31
include:

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                    1993         1992         1991
                                                  --------     --------     --------
<S>                                               <C>          <C>         <C>
Discount rate for determining obligations
 and interest cost..............................   7 1/4%          9%           9%
Expected long-term rate of return on assets.....       9%         10%          10%
</TABLE>

A 9 percent annual rate of increase in the per capita cost of covered health
care benefits was assumed for 1994.  This rate is assumed to decrease gradually
to 5 percent in year 2000 and remain at that level thereafter.  A
one-percentage-point increase in the assumed health care cost trend rates would
increase the accumulated postretirement benefit obligations as of December 31,
1993 by approximately $76,000 and the total of the service and interest cost
components of net postretirement health care cost for the year then ended by
approximately $17,200.

<PAGE>

                                                                      Exhibit 13

                      Abbott Laboratories and Subsidiaries

             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)

                                December 31, 1993


The Company also provides certain other postemployment benefits, primarily
disability plans, to qualifying domestic employees, and accrues for the related
cost over the service lives of the employee.


NOTE 4 - INVESTMENT SECURITIES
(dollars in thousands)

The following is a summary of investment securities at December 31:

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
Current Investment Securities                           1993         1992         1991
                                                      --------     --------     --------
<S>                                                   <C>          <C>          <C>
  Time deposits and certificates of deposit.......    $ 32,350     $ 84,430     $ 79,966
  Corporate debt obligations and other securities.      40,155       38,285            -
  Debt obligations issued or guaranteed by
    various governments or government agencies....       5,644       18,886        5,872
                                                      --------     --------    ---------
Total carrying amount.............................    $ 78,149     $141,601     $ 85,838
                                                      ========     ========     ========
Total fair market value...........................    $ 78,319     $142,887
                                                      ========     ========
</TABLE>


<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
Investment Securities Maturing after One Year           1993         1992         1991
                                                      --------     --------     --------
<S>                                                   <C>          <C>          <C>
  Time deposits and certificates of deposit.......    $ 34,500     $ 54,500     $ 70,500
  Debt obligations issued or guaranteed by
    various governments or government agencies....     142,612      166,139      197,684
  Corporate debt obligations......................      44,703       50,000       72,000
                                                      --------     --------    ---------
Total carrying amount.............................    $221,815     $270,639     $340,184
                                                      ========     ========     ========
Total fair market value...........................    $231,879     $285,763
                                                      ========     ========
</TABLE>

Of the investment securities listed above, $293,888, $409,105, and $424,218,
were held at December 31, 1993, 1992, and 1991, respectively, by subsidiaries
operating in Puerto Rico under tax incentive grants expiring from 2002 through
2007.  In addition, these subsidiaries held cash equivalents of $197,200,
$33,800, and $4,000 at December 31, 1993, 1992, and 1991, respectively.

<PAGE>

                                                                      Exhibit 13

                      Abbott Laboratories and Subsidiaries

             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)

                                December 31, 1993


NOTE 5 - TAXES ON EARNINGS
(dollars in thousands)

Effective January 1, 1993, the Company adopted the provisions of Statement of
Financial Accounting Standards No. 109, "Accounting for Income Taxes."  This
statement requires that deferred income taxes reflect the tax consequences on
future years of differences between the tax bases of assets and liabilities and
their financial reporting amounts.  Prior to 1993, provisions were made for the
estimated amount of income taxes on reported earnings which were payable
currently and in the future.  The effect of this change on income before taxes
and net income was not significant, and prior years' financial statements have
not been restated.

U.S. income taxes are provided on those earnings of foreign subsidiaries and
subsidiaries operating in Puerto Rico under tax incentive grants, which are
intended to be remitted to the parent company.  Undistributed earnings
reinvested indefinitely in foreign subsidiaries as working capital and plant and
equipment aggregated $702,000 at December 31, 1993.  Deferred income taxes not
provided on these earnings are not significant.

Earnings before taxes, and the related provisions for taxes on earnings, are as
follows:

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
 Earnings Before Taxes                        1993         1992         1991
                                           ----------   ----------   ----------
<S>                                        <C>          <C>          <C>
   Domestic..............................  $1,480,163   $1,418,335   $1,205,883
   Foreign...............................     463,067      320,418      338,339
                                           ----------    ----------  ----------
   Total.................................  $1,943,230   $1,738,753   $1,544,222
                                           ==========    ==========  ==========

<CAPTION>
 Taxes on Earnings                            1993         1992         1991
                                           ----------   ----------   ----------
<S>                                        <C>          <C>          <C>
   Current:
      U.S. Federal and Possessions........ $  355,813   $  347,711   $  316,377
      State...............................     49,222       63,838       50,758
      Foreign.............................    175,455      133,065      140,559
                                           ----------   ----------   ----------
   Total current..........................    580,490      544,614      507,694
                                           ----------   ----------   ----------
   Deferred:
      Domestic............................    (29,461)     (35,739)     (49,998)
      Foreign.............................      2,066       (9,179)      (2,151)
      Enacted tax rate changes............     (8,991)           -            -
                                           ----------   ----------   ----------
   Total deferred.........................    (36,386)     (44,918)     (52,149)
                                           ----------   ----------   ----------
 Total.................................... $  544,104   $  499,696   $  455,545
                                           ==========   ==========   ==========
</TABLE>

<PAGE>


                                                                      Exhibit 13

                      Abbott Laboratories and Subsidiaries

             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)

                                December 31, 1993


Differences between the effective income tax rate and the U.S. statutory tax
rate were as follows:

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                          1993          1992          1991
                                          -----         -----         -----
<S>                                       <C>           <C>           <C>
Statutory tax rate...................     35.0%         34.0%         34.0%
Benefit of tax exemptions in
 Puerto Rico and Ireland.............     (6.7)         (6.1)         (5.6)
State taxes, net of federal benefit..      1.7           2.1           2.2
All other, net.......................     (2.0)         (1.3)         (1.1)
                                          ----          ----          ----
Effective tax rate                        28.0%         28.7%         29.5%
                                          ====          ====          ====
</TABLE>

As of December 31, 1993, total deferred tax assets were $632,112 and total
deferred tax liabilities were $211,839.  Valuation allowances for tax assets are
not significant.  The major temporary differences that give rise to deferred tax
assets are compensation and employee benefits ($146,505), valuation and exposure
reserves for inventory and accounts receivable ($86,003 and $91,329,
respectively), deferred intercompany profit ($72,129), and state income taxes
($30,715).  The use of accelerated depreciation for U.S. income tax purposes
($165,482) and employee benefits ($32,578) are the primary temporary differences
that give rise to deferred tax liabilities.


NOTE 6 - INCENTIVE STOCK PROGRAM

The 1991 Incentive Stock Program authorizes the granting of stock options, stock
appreciation rights, limited stock appreciation rights, restricted stock awards,
performance units, and foreign qualified benefits.  Stock options, limited stock
appreciation rights, restricted stock awards, and foreign qualified benefits
have been granted and are currently outstanding under this program and prior
programs.  The purchase price of the shares under option must be at least 100
percent of the fair market value of the common stock on the date of grant.
Limited stock appreciation rights have been granted to certain holders of stock
options and can be exercised, by surrendering related stock options, only upon a
change in control of the Company.  At December 31, 1993, 4,374,757 options, with
purchase prices from $6.31 to $32.69 per share, were subject to limited stock
appreciation rights.  Upon a change in control of the Company, all outstanding
stock options become fully exercisable, and all terms and conditions of all
restricted stock awards are deemed satisfied.  At December 31, 1993, 13,598,451
shares were reserved for future grants under the 1991 Program.

<PAGE>

                                                                      Exhibit 13

                      Abbott Laboratories and Subsidiaries

             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)

                                December 31, 1993


Data with respect to stock options under the 1991 Program and prior programs are
as follows:

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                      Options Outstanding
                                                 -----------------------------
                                                   Shares     Price per Share
                                                 ----------   ----------------
<S>                                              <C>          <C>
    January 1, 1993............................  31,768,681   $ 5.21 to $33.82
    Granted....................................   1,362,660    23.64 to  30.50
    Exercised..................................  (2,602,920)    5.21 to  27.19
    Lapsed.....................................    (451,383)   25.22 to  33.47
                                                 ----------
    December 31, 1993..........................  30,077,038   $ 5.27 to $33.82
                                                 ==========
    Exercisable at December 31, 1993             17,812,066   $ 5.27 to $33.82
                                                 ==========
</TABLE>

NOTE 7 - LITIGATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS

The Company is involved in various claims and legal proceedings including
numerous antitrust suits and investigations in connection with the sale and
marketing of infant formula and pharmaceutical products.  In May and July 1993,
the Company settled certain of these claims and legal proceedings relating to
the infant formula products.

The Company is also involved in numerous product liability cases, many of which
allege injuries to the offspring of women who ingested a synthetic estrogen
(DES) during pregnancy.  In addition, the Company has been identified as a
potentially responsible party for investigation and cleanup costs at a number of
locations in the United States and Puerto Rico under federal remediation laws
and is voluntarily investigating potential contamination at a number of
Company-owned locations.

The matters above are discussed more fully in Item 1, Business - Environmental
Matters, and Item 3, Legal Proceedings, in the Annual Report on Form 10-K, which
is available upon request.

While it is not feasible to predict the outcome of such pending claims,
proceedings, investigations and remediation activities with certainty,
management is of the opinion, with which its General Counsel concurs, that their
ultimate disposition should not have a material adverse effect on the Company's
financial position.

<PAGE>

                                                                      Exhibit 13

                      Abbott Laboratories and Subsidiaries

             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)

                                December 31, 1993


NOTE 8 - QUARTERLY RESULTS (Unaudited)

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
(dollars in millions                                Three Months Ended
except per share data)                       --------------------------------
                                               1993        1992        1991
                                             --------    --------    --------
                                                                     March 31
                                                                     --------
<S>                                          <C>         <C>         <C>
Net Sales.................................   $2,045.6    $1,877.9    $1,653.6
Gross Profit..............................    1,112.4     1,033.2       889.4
Earnings Before Extraordinary
  Gain and Accounting Change .............      345.5       294.2       254.1
Net Earnings..............................      345.5       294.2       254.2
Earnings Per Common Share
  Before Extraordinary Gain and
  Accounting Change.......................        .41         .35         .30
Earnings Per Common Share.................        .41         .35         .30

                                                                      June 30
                                                                      -------
Net Sales.................................   $2,073.8    $1,908.7    $1,683.0
Gross Profit..............................    1,186.8     1,045.7       908.2
Net Earnings..............................      346.1       317.1       268.3
Earnings Per Common Share.................        .42         .37         .31

                                                                 September 30
                                                                 ------------
Net Sales.................................   $2,060.4    $1,968.8    $1,653.7
Gross Profit..............................    1,143.4     1,076.1       886.7
Net Earnings..............................      316.2       278.8       251.5
Earnings Per Common Share.................        .38         .33         .29

                                                                  December 31
                                                                  -----------
Net Sales.................................   $2,228.0    $2,096.5    $1,886.3
Gross Profit..............................    1,280.5     1,191.6     1,052.3
Net Earnings..............................      391.3       349.0       314.7
Earnings Per Common Share.................        .48         .42         .37
</TABLE>

<PAGE>

                                                                      Exhibit 13

                      Abbott Laboratories and Subsidiaries

             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)

                                December 31, 1993


NOTE 9 - OTHER SIGNIFICANT EVENTS

In June 1992, the Company voluntarily withdrew from the worldwide market its
quinolone anti-infective, temafloxacin, and recorded a charge of $215 million
for costs associated with this withdrawal.  In 1993, the Company resolved
various contingencies relative to the temafloxacin withdrawal and recorded a
credit of $70 million in the second quarter for these items.

In the first quarter 1993, the Company sold its peritoneal dialysis product
line.  The gain on the sale is reported in other (income) expense, net.

In May 1992, the Company sold its 20 percent investment in Boston Scientific
Corporation for a pre-tax gain of $272 million.  In 1991, the Company sold its
investment in Amgen Inc. for an after-tax gain of $128 million.  The sale was
reported as an extraordinary gain in the 1991 first quarter.


NOTE 10 - INDUSTRY SEGMENT AND GEOGRAPHIC AREA INFORMATION
(dollars in millions)

The Company's principal business is the discovery, development, manufacture, and
sale of a broad and diversified line of health care products and services. These
products have been classified into the following industry segments:

PHARMACEUTICAL AND NUTRITIONAL PRODUCTS - Included are a broad line of adult and
pediatric pharmaceuticals and nutritionals, which are sold primarily on the
prescription or recommendation of physicians or other health care professionals;
consumer products; agricultural and chemical products; and bulk pharmaceuticals.

HOSPITAL AND LABORATORY PRODUCTS - Included are diagnostic systems for blood
banks, hospitals, commercial laboratories and alternate-care testing sites;
intravenous and irrigation fluids and related administration equipment; drugs
and drug delivery systems; anesthetics; critical care products; and other
medical specialty products for hospitals and alternate-care sites.

In the following tables, net sales by industry segment and geographic area
include both sales to customers, as reported in the Consolidated Statement of
Earnings, and inter-area sales (for geographic areas) at sales prices which
approximate market.  Operating profit excludes corporate expenses.

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                                                                      Exhibit 13

                      Abbott Laboratories and Subsidiaries

             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)

                                December 31, 1993


<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
INDUSTRY SEGMENTS (a)                            1993       1992       1991
                                                ------     ------     ------
<S>                                             <C>        <C>        <C>
Net Sales:
  Pharmaceutical and nutritional.............   $4,389     $4,025     $3,512
  Hospital and laboratory....................    4,019      3,827      3,365
                                                ------     ------     ------
Total .......................................   $8,408     $7,852     $6,877
                                                ======     ======     ======
Operating Profit:
  Pharmaceutical and nutritional (b).........   $1,211     $  879     $  993
  Hospital and laboratory....................      794        703        639
                                                ------     ------     ------
  Operating Profit...........................    2,005      1,582      1,632
  Corporate expenses, net (c)................       46        104         69
  Interest (income) expense, net.............       16         11         19
  Gain on sale of investment.................        -       (272)         -
                                                ------     ------     ------
Earnings Before Taxes........................   $1,943     $1,739     $1,544
                                                ======     ======     ======

Identifiable Assets:
  Pharmaceutical and nutritional.............   $3,046     $2,616     $2,240
  Hospital and laboratory....................    3,296      3,108      2,887
  General corporate (d)......................    1,347      1,217      1,128
                                                ------     ------     ------
Total .......................................   $7,689     $6,941     $6,255
                                                ======     ======     ======

Capital Expenditures:
  Pharmaceutical and nutritional.............   $  475     $  502     $  363
  Hospital and laboratory....................      474        500        365
  General corporate..........................        4          5          5
                                                ------     ------     ------
Total .......................................   $  953     $1,007     $  733
                                                ======     ======     ======

Depreciation and Amortization:
  Pharmaceutical and nutritional.............   $  189     $  161     $  139
  Hospital and laboratory....................      292        264        238
  General corporate..........................        3          3          2
                                                ------     ------     ------
Total .......................................   $  484     $  428     $  379
                                                ======     ======     ======
</TABLE>

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                                                                      Exhibit 13

                      Abbott Laboratories and Subsidiaries

             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)

                                December 31, 1993


<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
GEOGRAPHIC AREAS (a) and (e)                     1993       1992       1991
                                                ------     ------     ------
<S>                                             <C>        <C>        <C>
Net Sales:
 United States:
    Domestic and export customers............   $5,347     $4,918     $4,376
    Inter-area...............................      932        930        870
                                                ------     ------     ------
  Total United States........................    6,279      5,848      5,246
  Latin America..............................      413        339        285
  Europe, Mideast and Africa.................    1,554      1,649      1,422
  Pacific, Far East and Canada...............    1,094        946        794
  Eliminations...............................     (932)      (930)      (870)
                                                ------     ------     ------
Total .......................................   $8,408     $7,852     $6,877
                                                ======     ======     ======

Operating Profit (b):
  United States..............................   $1,390     $1,114     $1,260
  Latin America..............................      106         70         49
  Europe, Mideast and Africa.................      301        260        272
  Pacific, Far East and Canada...............      189        143        100
  Eliminations...............................       19         (5)       (49)
                                                ------     ------     ------
Total .......................................   $2,005     $1,582     $1,632
                                                ======     ======     ======

Identifiable Assets, Excluding General
 Corporate Assets (d):
    United States............................   $4,492     $4,017     $3,580
    Latin America............................      228        188        161
    Europe, Mideast and Africa...............    1,096      1,089      1,012
    Pacific, Far East and Canada.............      703        627        566
    Eliminations.............................     (177)      (197)      (192)
                                                ------     ------     ------
Total .......................................   $6,342     $5,724     $5,127
                                                ======     ======     ======
</TABLE>

<PAGE>

                                                                      Exhibit 13

                      Abbott Laboratories and Subsidiaries

             NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)

                                December 31, 1993



INDUSTRY SEGMENT AND GEOGRAPHIC AREA INFORMATION (CONTINUED)


(a) In 1993, net sales and operating profit were unfavorably impacted by the
    relatively stronger U.S. dollar while 1992 was favorably affected by the
    relatively weaker U.S. dollar.  In 1991, net sales and operating profit were
    not significantly affected by fluctuations in the U.S. dollar.

(b) The 1992 operating profit was unfavorably impacted by the pre-tax charge
    of $215 for costs associated with the voluntary withdrawal of temafloxacin
    from the worldwide market.  The 1993 operating profit was favorably impacted
    by the $70 pre-tax credit resulting from resolution of various contingencies
    related to the withdrawal, and unfavorably impacted by the $104 pre-tax
    charge reflecting the settlement of certain claims and legal proceedings in
    connection with the sale and marketing of infant formula products.

(c) Corporate expenses, net, include results from joint ventures, minority
    interest expenses, and net foreign exchange losses.  These amounts are
    included in Other (income) expense, net, in the Consolidated Statement of
    Earnings.  Net foreign exchange losses were $41.3 in 1993, $93.2 in 1992,
    and $11.1 in 1991.

(d) General corporate assets are principally cash and cash equivalents and
    investment securities.

(e) The Company has a domestic manufacturing facility which produces
    semi-processed pharmaceuticals primarily for foreign subsidiaries to finish
    and sell.  The sales of the finished products, operating profit, and
    identifiable assets associated with this operation have been included in the
    appropriate foreign area.

<PAGE>

                                                                      Exhibit 13

                      Abbott Laboratories and Subsidiaries

                    REPORT OF INDEPENDENT PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS



To the Shareholders of Abbott Laboratories:

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheet of Abbott
Laboratories (an Illinois corporation) and Subsidiaries as of December 31, 1993,
1992, and 1991, and the related consolidated statements of earnings,
shareholders' investment, and cash flows for the years then ended.  These
financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's management.  Our
responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on
our audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with generally accepted auditing
standards.  Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain
reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material
misstatement.  An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting
the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements.  An audit also includes
assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by
management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation.
We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in
all material respects, the financial position of Abbott Laboratories and
Subsidiaries as of December 31, 1993, 1992, and 1991, and the results of their
operations and their cash flows for the years then ended in conformity with
generally accepted accounting principles.

As explained in Note 3 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company
adopted the requirements of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 106
"Employers' Accounting for Postretirement Benefits Other Than Pensions,"
effective January 1, 1991.



Chicago, Illinois,
January 14, 1994                                          Arthur Andersen & Co.

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                                                                      Exhibit 13

                      Abbott Laboratories and Subsidiaries

                                FINANCIAL REVIEW

                                December 31, 1993


RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
- ---------------------
Sales
- -----
Worldwide sales increased 7.1 percent in 1993 due to unit growth of 8.6 percent
and net price increases of .9 percent, partially offset 2.4 percent by the
effect of the relatively stronger U.S. dollar.  Sales increased 14.2 percent in
1992 due to unit growth of 10.6 percent and net price increases of 2.9 percent.
In 1991, sales increased 11.7 percent due to unit growth of 8.9 percent and net
price increases of 2.9 percent.

Domestic sales increased 8.7 percent in 1993, 13.1 percent in 1992, and
11.8 percent in 1991, primarily due to volume.  International sales increased
4.5 percent in 1993, 16.0 percent in 1992, and 11.4 percent in 1991, primarily
due to volume, net of exchange.  International sales were unfavorably affected
by exchange of about 6.4 percent in 1993 and .5 percent in 1991.  In 1992,
international sales were favorably impacted 1.7 percent due to exchange.  Sales
in international markets represented approximately 37 percent of worldwide
sales.

Sales in the pharmaceutical and nutritional products segment increased
9.0 percent in 1993, compared with increases of 14.6 percent in 1992, and
11.1 percent in 1991.  Domestic sales in this segment increased 10.2 percent in
1993, approximately 9.2 percent due to volume growth and 1.0 percent due to net
price increases.  In 1992, domestic sales increased 14.5 percent, approximately
8.9 percent due to volume growth and 5.6 percent due to net price increases, and
in 1991 increased 11.8 percent, approximately 6.6 percent due to price, and
5.2 percent volume.  International sales in this segment increased 6.5 percent
in 1993, resulting from unit growth of 9.2 percent and net price increases of
3.4 percent; and were unfavorably affected 6.1 percent by the relatively
stronger U.S. dollar.  International sales in this segment increased
14.7 percent in 1992, resulting from unit growth of 11.0 percent and net price
increases of 3.3 percent.  In 1991, international sales increased 9.8 percent
due to unit growth of approximately 7.6 percent and net price increases of
3.2 percent, partially offset 1.0 percent by the effect of the relatively
stronger U.S. dollar.  Sales of new products in this segment in 1993 are
estimated to be about $130 million.

Sales in the hospital and laboratory products segment increased 5.0 percent in
1993, 13.7 percent in 1992, and 12.2 percent in 1991.  Domestic sales in this
segment increased 6.6 percent in 1993, 11.2 percent in 1992 and 12.0 percent in
1991, all primarily due to unit growth.  International sales in this segment in
1993 increased 3.0 percent, approximately 9.8 percent due to unit growth offset
6.7 percent due to exchange.  International sales in this segment in 1992
increased 17.0 percent, approximately 13.5 percent due to unit growth and
2.7 percent due to exchange.  In 1991, international sales in this segment
increased 12.5 percent, primarily due to unit growth.  Sales of new products in
this segment in 1993 are estimated to be about $465 million.

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                                                                      Exhibit 13

                      Abbott Laboratories and Subsidiaries

                          FINANCIAL REVIEW (CONTINUED)

                                December 31, 1993


The classes of products which contributed at least 10 percent to consolidated
net sales in at least one of the last three years were:

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>

(dollars in millions)                              1993      1992      1991
                                                  ------    ------    ------
    <S>                                           <C>       <C>       <C>
    Infant Formula.............................   $1,147    $1,075    $1,060
    Fluids and Equipment.......................      836       924       864
    Medical Nutritionals.......................      864       760       625
</TABLE>

Worldwide sales of infant formula increased in 1993 primarily due to unit
growth, and in 1992 primarily due to net price increases.  In 1993, fluids and
equipment sales decreased due to the sale of a product line, and in 1992
increased primarily due to unit growth.  Increases in medical nutritionals sales
were primarily due to volume gains.

Operating Earnings
- ------------------
Gross profit margins (sales less cost of products sold, including freight and
distribution expenses) improved from 54.3 percent of sales in 1991 and
55.4 percent in 1992, to 56.2 percent in 1993.  Productivity improvements,
favorable product mix, and net price increases in some product lines more than
offset the impacts of inflation and competitive pricing pressures in other
product lines.  In 1993, gross profit margins were unfavorably impacted by the
relatively stronger U.S. dollar while 1992 was favorably affected by the
relatively weaker U.S. dollar.  In the U.S., states receive price rebates from
manufacturers of infant formula under the federally subsidized Special
Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC).  The WIC
rebate programs continue to have a negative effect on the gross profit margins
of this portion of the infant formula business.

Research and development expense increased to $881 million in 1993, and
represented 10.5 percent of net sales, compared with 9.8 percent of net sales in
1992 and 9.7 percent of net sales in 1991.  Research and development
expenditures continue to be concentrated on diagnostic and pharmaceutical
products.

Selling, general and administrative expenses increased 8.5 percent in 1993,
compared to increases of 21.1 percent in 1992, and 18.6 percent in 1991.  The
1993 increase reflects the settlement of certain claims and legal proceedings in
connection with the sale and marketing of infant formula products.  In May 1993,
the Company recorded a pre-tax charge to earnings of approximately $104 million
in connection with these settlements.  The increases in 1992 and 1991 resulted
from higher levels of selling and marketing support for new and existing
products, primarily pharmaceutical and diagnostic products.

<PAGE>

                                                                      Exhibit 13

                      Abbott Laboratories and Subsidiaries

                          FINANCIAL REVIEW (CONTINUED)

                                December 31, 1993


In June 1992, the Company voluntarily withdrew from the worldwide market its
quinolone anti-infective, temafloxacin, and recorded a pre-tax charge of
$215 million for costs associated with this withdrawal.  In 1993, the Company
resolved various contingencies relative to the temafloxacin withdrawal and
recorded a pre-tax credit to earnings of $70 million for these items.
Temafloxacin was introduced in the U.S. in February 1992, and had been
introduced in several other countries throughout 1991.  Total sales of this
product were not significant; however, operating earnings of the pharmaceutical
and nutritional products segment in 1992 were unfavorably affected by the costs
of withdrawal of this product.

Other (Income) Expense, Net
- ---------------------------
Other (income) expense, net, includes net foreign exchange losses of
$41.3 million in 1993, $93.2 million in 1992, and $11.1 million in 1991,
including net exchange (gains) losses on foreign currency contracts.  These
contracts were purchased to manage the Company's exposure to foreign currency
rate changes.  Other (income) expense, net, also includes the first quarter 1993
gain on the sale of the Company's peritoneal dialysis product line, and the
Company's share of the income from joint ventures, primarily TAP Pharmaceuticals
Inc.

Sale of Investments
- -------------------
In May 1992, the Company sold its 20 percent investment in Boston Scientific
Corporation for a pre-tax gain of $272 million.  Net proceeds from the sale were
used toward the purchase of eight million shares of the Company's common stock
as authorized by the Board of Directors.  In 1991, the Company sold its
investment in Amgen Inc. for an after-tax gain of $128 million.  The sale was
reported as an extraordinary gain in the 1991 first quarter.

Taxes on Earnings
- -----------------
The Company's effective income tax rate for 1993 was 28.0 percent, compared with
28.7 percent for 1992 and 29.5 percent for 1991.

In the first quarter 1993, the Company adopted Statement of Financial Accounting
Standards No. 109, "Accounting for Income Taxes."  The effect of this change on
income before taxes and net income is not significant, and prior years'
financial statements have not been restated.

In August 1993, the President of the United States signed the Omnibus Budget
Reconciliation Act of 1993 into law.  The effects of this Act on the Company's
tax provision in 1993 were not significant.  However, as the result of this Act,
the Company's 1994 tax provision is expected to increase approximately
$50 million.

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                                                                      Exhibit 13

                      Abbott Laboratories and Subsidiaries

                          FINANCIAL REVIEW (CONTINUED)

                                December 31, 1993


Accounting Standards
- --------------------
In November 1992, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Statement of
Financial Accounting Standards No. 112 "Employers' Accounting for Postemployment
Benefits."  The Company's accounting for such benefits is in accordance with
this standard.

In the first quarter of 1991, the Company adopted Statement of Financial
Accounting Standards No. 106 "Employers' Accounting for Postretirement Benefits
Other Than Pensions," with immediate recognition of the transition obligation of
$128 million.


FINANCIAL CONDITION
- -------------------
Cash Flow
- ---------
The Company expects positive cash flow from operating activities to continue to
approximate or exceed the Company's capital expenditures and cash dividends.

Debt and Capital
- ----------------
The Company has maintained its favorable bond ratings (AAA by Standard & Poor's
Corporation and Aa1 by Moody's Investors Service) and continues to have readily
available financial resources, including unused domestic lines of credit of
$300 million at December 31, 1993.

In the third quarter 1993, the Company filed a registration statement with the
Securities and Exchange Commission for the issuance of $500 million of senior
debt securities.  In October 1993, $200 million of 5.6 percent notes due 2003
were issued by the Company under this filing.  Net proceeds were used to retire
short-term borrowings and for the purchase of the Company's common shares.  The
Company may issue up to an additional $300 million of debt securities in the
future under this registration statement.

During the last three years, the Company purchased 49,599,000 of its common
shares at a cost of $1.391 billion, including 5,899,000 shares of the 20,000,000
shares authorized for purchase by the Board of Directors in September 1993.

Capital Expenditures
- --------------------
Capital expenditures of $953 million in 1993, $1.0 billion in 1992, and
$733 million in 1991, were principally for upgrading and expanding manufacturing
and research and development facilities in both segments and for administrative
support facilities.  The leveling of capital expenditures is expected to
continue over the next few years, with a relatively equal proportion dedicated
to each segment.

<PAGE>

                                                                      Exhibit 13

                      Abbott Laboratories and Subsidiaries

                          FINANCIAL REVIEW (CONTINUED)

                                December 31, 1993


LEGISLATIVE ISSUES
- ------------------
The Company's primary markets are highly competitive and subject to substantial
government regulation.  In the U.S., comprehensive legislation may be enacted
that would make significant changes to the availability, delivery and payment
for health care products and services.  International operations are also
subject to a significant degree of government regulation.  It is not possible to
predict the extent to which the Company or the health care industry in general
might be adversely affected by these factors in the future.  A more complete
discussion of these factors is contained in Item 1, Business, in the Annual
Report on Form 10-K, which is available upon request.

<PAGE>

                                                                      Exhibit 13

                      Abbott Laboratories and Subsidiaries

                       SUMMARY OF SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA

                          Year Ended December 31, 1993

                   (Dollars in Millions Except Per Share Data)


<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                               1993     1992      1991      1990      1989
                                             --------  -------   -------   -------   -------
<S>                                          <C>       <C>       <C>       <C>       <C>
SUMMARY OF OPERATIONS:
Net sales................................    $8,407.8  7,851.9   6,876.6   6,158.7   5,379.8
Cost of products sold....................    $3,684.7  3,505.3   3,140.0   2,910.1   2,556.7
Research and development.................    $  881.0    772.4     666.3     567.0     501.8
Selling, general and administrative......    $1,988.2  1,833.2   1,513.3   1,275.6   1,100.2
Operating earnings (1)...................    $1,924.0  1,526.0   1,557.0   1,406.0   1,221.1
Interest expense.........................    $   54.3     53.0      63.8      91.4      74.4
Interest and dividend income.............    $  (37.8)   (42.3)    (45.1)    (51.6)    (73.8)
Other (income) expense, net..............    $  (35.7)    48.5      (5.9)     15.5      26.3
Earnings before taxes (2)................    $1,943.2  1,738.8   1,544.2   1,350.7   1,194.2
Taxes on earnings........................    $  544.1    499.7     455.5     384.9     334.4
Earnings before extraordinary gain and
  accounting change (3)..................    $1,399.1  1,239.1   1,088.7     965.8     859.8
Earnings per common share before extra-
  ordinary gain and accounting change (3)    $   1.69     1.47      1.27      1.11       .96

FINANCIAL POSITION:
Working capital..........................    $  490.6    449.2     661.7     460.0     719.2
Investment securities maturing
  after one year, at cost................    $  221.8    270.6     340.2     314.0     300.0
Net property and equipment...............    $3,511.0  3,099.2   2,662.1   2,375.8   2,090.2
Total assets.............................    $7,688.6  6,941.2   6,255.3   5,563.2   4,851.6
Long-term debt...........................    $  306.8    110.0     125.1     134.8     146.7
Shareholders' investment.................    $3,674.9  3,347.6   3,203.0   2,833.6   2,726.4
Return on shareholders' investment.......    %   39.8     37.8      36.1      34.7      33.1
Book value per share.....................    $   4.48     4.00      3.77      3.30      3.08

OTHER STATISTICS:
Gross profit margin......................    %   56.2     55.4      54.3      52.7      52.5
Research and development to net sales....    %   10.5      9.8       9.7       9.2       9.3
Capital expenditures.....................    $  952.7  1,007.2     732.8     629.5     501.5
Cash dividends declared per common share.    $    .68      .60       .50       .42       .35
Common shares outstanding (in thousands).     821,130  836,052   850,530   858,282   884,958
Number of common shareholders............      82,947   75,703    56,541    49,827    45,361
Number of employees......................      49,659   48,118    45,694    43,770    40,929
Sales per employee (in dollars)..........    $169,312  163,180   150,492   140,706   131,441
Market price per share - high............    $ 30 7/8   34 1/8    34 3/4    23 1/8    17 5/8
Market price per share - low.............    $ 22 5/8   26 1/8    19 5/8    15 5/8    11 1/2
Market price per share - close...........    $ 29 5/8   30 3/8    34 3/8    22 1/2    17

</TABLE>

<PAGE>

                                                                      Exhibit 13

                      Abbott Laboratories and Subsidiaries

                 SUMMARY OF SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA (CONTINUED)

                          Year Ended December 31, 1993

                   (Dollars in Millions Except Per Share Data)

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>


                                               1988     1987      1986      1985      1984
                                             --------  -------   -------   -------   -------
<S>                                          <C>       <C>       <C>       <C>       <C>
SUMMARY OF OPERATIONS:
Net sales................................    $4,937.0  4,387.9   3,807.6   3,360.3   3,104.0
Cost of products sold....................    $2,353.2  2,101.9   1,868.4   1,694.9   1,565.4
Research and development.................    $  454.6    361.3     284.9     240.6     218.7
Selling, general and administrative......    $1,027.2    919.0     775.7     687.7     643.4
Operating earnings.......................    $1,102.0  1,005.7     878.6     737.1     676.5
Interest expense.........................    $   85.0     77.6      86.3      98.1      94.2
Interest and dividend income.............    $  (69.4)   (56.7)    (63.1)    (76.0)    (70.5)
Other (income) expense, net..............    $   30.9     47.7      36.7      20.5       6.6
Earnings before taxes....................    $1,055.5    937.1     818.7     694.5     646.2
Taxes on earnings........................    $  303.5    304.5     278.2     229.2     243.6
Earnings before extraordinary gain and
  accounting change......................    $  752.0    632.6     540.5     465.3     402.6
Earnings per common share before extra-
  ordinary gain and accounting change....    $    .83      .69       .58       .48       .42


FINANCIAL POSITION:
Working capital..........................    $  913.3    668.7     585.4     891.9     743.3
Investment securities maturing
  after one year, at cost................    $  285.7    292.9     254.2     281.1     327.4
Net property and equipment...............    $1,952.6  1,741.6   1,543.3   1,368.5   1,236.6
Total assets.............................    $4,825.1  4,385.7   3,865.6   3,468.4   3,170.4
Long-term debt...........................    $  349.3    271.0     297.4     443.0     470.2
Shareholders' investment.................    $2,464.6  2,093.5   1,778.9   1,870.7   1,602.7
Return on shareholders' investment.......    %   33.0     32.7      29.6      26.8      26.7
Book value per share.....................    $   2.74     2.31      1.94      1.96      1.67

OTHER STATISTICS:
Gross profit margin......................    %   52.3     52.1      50.9      49.6      49.6
Research and development to net sales....    %    9.2      8.2       7.5       7.2       7.0
Capital expenditures.....................    $  521.2    432.7     383.4     292.9     334.8
Cash dividends declared per common share.    $    .30      .25       .21      .175       .15
Common shares outstanding (in thousands).     899,384  906,924   915,356   956,764   961,876
Number of common shareholders............      46,324   45,822    40,387    34,923    34,963
Number of employees......................      38,751   37,828    35,754    34,742    33,668
Sales per employee (in dollars)..........    $127,403  115,995   106,495    96,721    92,193
Market price per share - high............    $ 13 1/8   16 3/4    13 3/4     9         6 1/8
Market price per share - low.............    $ 10 3/4   10         7 7/8     5         4 5/8
Market price per share - close...........    $ 12       12        11 3/8     8 1/2     5 1/8
</TABLE>

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                                                                      Exhibit 13

                      Abbott Laboratories and Subsidiaries

                 SUMMARY OF SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA (CONTINUED)

                          Year Ended December 31, 1993

                   (Dollars in Millions Except Per Share Data)


<TABLE>
<CAPTION>

                                               1983
                                             ----------
<S>                                          <C>
SUMMARY OF OPERATIONS:
Net sales................................    $2,927.9
Cost of products sold....................    $1,517.7
Research and development.................    $  184.5
Selling, general and administrative......    $  621.4
Operating earnings ......................    $  604.3
Interest expense.........................    $   77.6
Interest and dividend income.............    $  (73.2)
Other (income) expense, net..............    $   25.3
Earnings before taxes ...................    $  574.6
Taxes on earnings........................    $  227.0
Earnings before extraordinary gain and
  accounting change .....................    $  347.6
Earnings per common share before extra-
  ordinary gain and accounting change ...    $    .36

FINANCIAL POSITION:
Working capital..........................    $  616.1
Investment securities maturing
  after one year, at cost................    $  402.4
Net property and equipment...............    $1,069.2
Total assets.............................    $2,821.6
Long-term debt...........................    $  483.9
Shareholders' investment.................    $1,417.9
Return on shareholders' investment.......    %   25.5
Book value per share.....................    $   1.46

OTHER STATISTICS:
Gross profit margin......................    %   48.2
Research and development to net sales....    %    6.3
Capital expenditures.....................    $  311.8
Cash dividends declared per common share.    $   .125
Common shares outstanding (in thousands).     968,784
Number of common shareholders............      32,784
Number of employees......................      34,328
Sales per employee (in dollars)..........    $ 85,291
Market price per share - high............    $  6 5/8
Market price per share - low.............    $  4 1/2
Market price per share - close...........    $  5 5/8

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                                                                      Exhibit 13

                      Abbott Laboratories and Subsidiaries

                 SUMMARY OF SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA (CONTINUED)

                          Year Ended December 31, 1993

                   (Dollars in Millions Except Per Share Data)



(1) In 1992, the Company recorded a pre-tax charge of $215 for costs associated
    with the voluntary withdrawal of temafloxacin from the worldwide market.
    In 1993, the Company resolved various contingencies related to the
    withdrawal and recorded a pre-tax credit of $70.

(2) In 1992, the Company recorded a pre-tax gain of $272 on the sale of its
    investment in Boston Scientific Corporation.

(3) In 1991, the Company realized an after-tax gain of $128, or $.15 per share,
    on the sale of an investment.  The Company also adopted Statement of
    Financial Accounting Standards No. 106, which resulted in an after-tax
    transition expense of $128, or $.15 per share.



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                                                     EXHIBIT 21

                       SUBSIDIARIES OF ABBOTT LABORATORIES

     The following is a list of subsidiaries of the Company.  Abbott
Laboratories is not a subsidiary of any other corporation.

                                                        State of
Domestic Subsidiaries                                  Incorporation
- ---------------------                                  -------------

Abbott Biotech, Inc.                                   Delaware
Abbott Chemicals, Inc.                                 Delaware
Abbott Health Products, Inc.                           Delaware
Abbott Home Infusion Services                          New York
  of New York, Inc.

Abbott International Ltd.                              Delaware
Abbott International Ltd. of Puerto Rico               Puerto Rico
Abbott Laboratories International Co.                  Illinois
Abbott Laboratories Pacific Ltd.                       Illinois

Abbott Laboratories (Puerto Rico)
  Incorporated                                         Puerto Rico

Abbott Laboratories Residential
  Development Fund, Inc.                               Illinois

Abbott Laboratories Services Corp.                     Illinois

Abbott Manufacturing, Inc.                             Delaware

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Abbott Trading Company, Inc.                           Virgin Islands

Abbott Universal Ltd.                                  Delaware

CMM Transportation, Inc.                               Delaware

Corporate Alliance, Inc.                               Delaware

Exact Science, Inc.                                    Florida

Fuller Research Corporation                            Delaware

HAVEN Leasing Corporation                              Delaware

Laser Surgery Partnership                              Illinois

Medlase Holding Corporation                            Delaware

North Shore Properties, Inc.                           Delaware

Oximetrix de Puerto Rico, Inc.                         Delaware

Oximetrix, Inc.                                        Delaware

Sequoia Turner Corporation                             California

Sequoia Turner Export Corporation                      California

Solartek Products, Inc.                                Delaware

Sorenson Research Co., Inc.                            Utah

Swan-Myers, Incorporated                               Indiana

TAP Pharmaceuticals Inc.                               Delaware

Tobal Products Incorporated                            Illinois

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                                                       Country
                                                       in Which

Foreign Subsidiaries                                   Organized
- --------------------                                   ---------

Abbott Laboratories Argentina, S.A.                    Argentina

Abbott Australian Holdings Pty.
  Limited                                              Australia

Abbott Australasia Pty. Limited                        Australia

Abbott Gesellschaft m.b.H.                             Austria
Abbott Hospitals Limited                               Bahamas
Abbott Laboratories (Bangladesh) Ltd.                  Bangladesh
Abbott, S.A.                                           Belgium
Abbott Ireland Ltd.                                    Bermuda
Abbott Laboratorios do Brasil Ltda.                    Brazil
Abbott Laboratories Limited                            Canada

Abbott Laboratories de Chile
  Limitada                                             Chile

Ningbo Asia-Pacific Biotechnology Ltd.                 China, People's
(formerly Ningbo Abbott Biotechnology Ltd.)            Republic of

Abbott Laboratories de Colombia,
  S.A.                                                 Colombia

Abbott Laboratories A/S                                Denmark

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Abbott Laboratorios del Ecuador, S.A.                  Ecuador

Abbott, S.A. de C.V.                                   El Salvador

Abbott Laboratories Limited                            England

Abbott Laboratories Trustee
  Company Limited                                      England

Abbott France S.A.                                     France

Abbott G.m.b.H.                                        Germany

Oximetrix G.m.b.H.                                     Germany

Abbott Laboratories (Hellas) S.A.                      Greece

FAMAR Panos A. Marinopoulos S.A.                       Greece

FAMAR Anonymous Industrial Co. of                      Greece
  Pharmaceuticals and Cosmetics

Abbott Grenada Limited                                 Grenada

Abbott Laboratorios, S.A.                              Guatemala

Abbott Laboratories Limited                            Hong Kong

Abbott Laboratories (India) Ltd.                       India

Abind Healthcare Private Limited                       India

P. T. Abbott Indonesia                                 Indonesia

Abbott Laboratories, Ireland,
  Limited                                              Ireland

Abbott Ireland Ltd.                                    Ireland

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Abbott S.p.A.                                          Italy

Laboratori Abbott S.p.A.                               Italy

Abbott West Indies Limited                             Jamaica

Consolidated Laboratories Limited                      Jamaica

Abbott Japan K.K.                                      Japan

Dainabot K.K.                                          Japan

Abbott Korea Limited                                   Korea

Abbott Middle East S.A.R.L.                            Lebanon

Abbott Laboratories (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd.               Malaysia

Abbott Laboratories de Mexico, S.A. de C.V.            Mexico

Abbott Laboratories (Mozambique)
  Limitada                                             Mozambique

Edisco B.V.                                            The Netherlands

Abbott B.V.                                            The Netherlands

M & R Laboratoria B.V.                                 The Netherlands

Abbott Laboratories (N.Z.) Limited                     New Zealand

Abbott Laboratories Nigeria Limited                    Nigeria

Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited                 Pakistan

Abbott Laboratories, C.A.                              Panama

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Abbott Overseas, S.A.                                  Panama

Abbott Laboratorios S.A.                               Peru

Abbott Laboratories                                    Philippines

l02 E. de los Santos Realty Co., Inc.                  Philippines

Union-Madison Realty Company, Inc.                     Philippines

Abbott Laboratorios, Limitada                          Portugal

Abbott Laboratories (Singapore)
  Private Limited                                      Singapore

Abbott Laboratories South Africa
  (Pty.) Limited                                       South Africa

Abbott Laboratories, S.A.                              Spain

Abbott Cientifica, S.A.                                Spain

Abbott Scandinavia A.B.                                Sweden

Abbott A.G.                                            Switzerland

Abbott Laboratories S.A.                               Switzerland

Abbott Finance Company S.`a r.l.                        Switzerland

Investment Services A.G.                               Switzerland

Overseas Services S.A.                                 Switzerland

Abbott Laboratories Taiwan Limited                     Taiwan

Abbott Laboratories Limited                            Thailand

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Abbott Laboratuarlari Ithalat Ihracat
Ve Tecaret Anonim Sirketi                              Turkey


Abbott Laboratories Uruguay Limitada                   Uruguay

Abbott Laboratories, C.A.                              Venezuela

Medicamentos M & R, S.A.                               Venezuela





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                                                                    EXHIBIT 23.1

             SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT OF INDEPENDENT PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS

To Abbott Laboratories:

    We  have audited in  accordance with generally  accepted auditing standards,
the financial statements included in the Company's Annual Report incorporated by
reference in this Form  10-K, and have issued  our report thereon dated  January
14,  1994. Our audits were  made for the purpose of  forming an opinion on those
statements taken  as a  whole. Schedules  I,  V, VI,  VIII, IX,  and X  are  the
responsibility  of  the  Company's  management, are  presented  for  purposes of
complying with the Securities and Exchange Commission's rules, and are not  part
of  the basic financial  statements. These schedules have  been subjected to the
auditing procedures applied in the audits of the basic financial statements and,
in our  opinion,  fairly state  in  all  material respects  the  financial  data
required  to be set forth therein in  relation to the basic financial statements
taken as a whole.

                                                       /s/ Arthur Andersen & Co.
Chicago, Illinois,                                         ARTHUR ANDERSEN & CO.
January 14, 1994

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                                                                    EXHIBIT 23.2

                   CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS

    As independent public accountants, we hereby consent to the incorporation by
reference  of the following into the Company's previously filed S-8 Registration
Statements Numbers  2-79691 for  the Abbott  Laboratories 1981  Incentive  Stock
Program,  33-4368  for the  Abbott  Laboratories 1986  Incentive  Stock Program,
33-39798 for the Abbott Laboratories 1991 Incentive Stock Program, and  33-26685
and  33-51585 for  the Abbott Laboratories  Stock Retirement Plan  and Trust and
into the Company's previously filed S-3 Registration Statement Number 33-50253:

    1.  Our supplemental report dated  January 14, 1994 included in this  Annual
       Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1993; and

    2.   Our  report dated  January 14, 1994  incorporated by  reference in this
       Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1993.

                                                       /s/ Arthur Andersen & Co.
Chicago, Illinois,                                         ARTHUR ANDERSEN & CO.
February 23, 1994


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