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FOTHERGILL, JOHN (17121780)

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 734 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: FLA-FRA
FOTHERGILL, JOHN (17121780) ,
English
  physician, was born of a Quaker family on the 8th of
March
  1712 at Carr End in Yorkshire. He took the degree of M.D. at Edinburgh in 1736, and after visiting the continent of Europe he in 1740 settled in London, where he gained an extensive practice. In the epidemics of influenza in 1795 and 1776 he is said to have had sixty patients daily. In his leisure he made a study of conchology and botany; and at Upton, near
Stratford
 , he had an extensive botanical
garden
  where he grew many rare
plants
  obtained from various parts of the world. He was the patron of Sidney Parkinson, the
South
  Sea voyager. A
translation
  of the Bible (1764 sq.) by Anthony Purver, a Quaker, was made and printed at his expense. His pamphlet entitled " Account of the Sore
Throat
  attended with Ulcers " (1748) contains one of the first descriptions of
diphtheria
  in
English
 , and was translated into several languages. He died in London on the 26th of December 1780.


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