John Fothergill (physician)
John Fothergill
Life and work
Fothergill was born at Carr End, near Bainbridge in Yorkshire, the son of John Fothergill (1676–1745), a Quaker preacher and farmer, and his first wife, Margaret Hough (1677–1719).[1] After studying at Sedbergh School, Fothergill was apprenticed to an apothecary. In 1736, he obtained the degree of Doctor of Medicine at Edinburgh and followed this by further studies at St Thomas's Hospital, London. After visiting continental Europe in 1740, he settled in London, where he gained an extensive practice. During the influenza epidemics of 1775 and 1776 he is said to have treated 60 patients a day.[2]
In 1745, Fothergill gave a brief lecture to the
Fothergill's pamphlet Account of the Sore Throat attended with Ulcers (1748) contains one of the first descriptions of
Botanist and Quaker
Fothergill made a study of
Fothergill was the patron of Sydney Parkinson, the South Sea voyager, and of William Bartram, the American botanist in his southern travels of 1773–1776. A translation of the Bible, known as the Quaker Bible, made by Anthony Purver, was fashioned and printed at his expense. He founded Ackworth School, Pontefract, Yorkshire in 1779.[11]
John Fothergill died in London on 26 December 1780 aged 68, of urinary retention perhaps linked with prostate cancer.[12] Fanny Burney, having earlier described him as "an upright, stern old man... an old prig," later recorded when she was his patient: "He really has been... amazingly civil and polite to me... as kind as he is skilful." His niece Betty Fothergill described him in her journal as "surely the first of men. With the becoming dignity of age he unites the cheerfulness and liberality of youth. He possesses the most virtues and the fewest failings of any man I know".[1]
See also
Notes
- ^ a b c d DeLacy 2007.
- ^ a b c Chisholm 1911, p. 733.
- ^ Fothergill, J (1745). "Observations on the recovery of a man dead in appearance by distending the lungs with air". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. 43 (475).
- PMID 14638891.
- S2CID 205664435.
- )
- ^ Pine, Frank Woodworth, ed. (1916). "Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. (see: XVIII Scientific Experiments)". Project Gutenberg. Henry Holt and Company. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
- ^ Coats 1992, "Clematis" cites Lettsom 1786
- ISBN 9780521685535(paperback), pp. 169.
- ^ Society site.
- ^ "History of Ackworth School, a UK Boarding School". www.ackworthschool.com. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
- PMID 5331184.
References
- DeLacy, Margaret (October 2007) [2004]. "Fothergill, John (1712–1780)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9979. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- Coats, Alice M. (1992) [1964]. "Clematis". Garden Shrubs and their Histories.
- Lettsom, John Coakley (1786). Memoires of John Fothergill, M.D.
- "John Fothergill". Dictionary of medical eponyms (Whonamedit). Retrieved 6 February 2017.
Attribution
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Fothergill, John". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 733. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
Further reading
- Fothergill, John; Elliot, John (1781). A Complete Collection of the Medical and Philosophical Works of John Fothergill. London: John Walker.
John Fothergill.
- Bernet, Claus (2010). "John Fothergill (physician)". In Bautz, Traugott (ed.). .shtml Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 31. Nordhausen: Bautz. cols. 456–464. )
- Fothergill, Samuel; Crosfield, George (1843). Memoirs of the Life and Gospel Labours of Samuel Fothergill, with Selections from his Correspondence. London: D. Marples.
fothergill.
contains information on John Fothergill, the author's father - Harvey, Karen, ed. (2005). The Kiss in History. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 9780719065958. – See Chapter 5: Davidson, Luke, The kiss of life in the eighteenth century: the fate of an ambiguous kiss.
- Fox, Richard Hingston (1919). Dr. John Fothergill and his friends; chapters in eighteenth century life. London: Macmillan.