CONTENTS xxi 



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Signatories Friends as Tories The Free Quakers Sufferings 

 pf the Friends War relief funds Franklin in Paris A great 

 figure Correspondence in war-time. 



CHAPTER XXVIII 



FOTHERGILL'S WORK IN WAR-TIME, 1777 TO 1780 . 348 



The American cause depressed The British in Philadelphia, 

 1777 Fothergill's message Surrender of Burgoyne Fother- 

 gill's letter to Franklin His estimate of the King A dark 

 prospect Pleads for a commercial union Lists of fame and 

 infamy Abolition of oaths as a reproach to truth Credit versus 

 ready money Barclay's plan of conciliation, 1777 Letter from 

 Fothergill on overtures to Franklin at Paris The Conciliation 

 Bill, 1778 Too late Further course of the war Chatham 

 Burke Distress at home An enemy fleet in the Channel, 1779 

 Movement for Reform Wyvill and the Yorkshire Association 

 Fothergill's letter for the meeting at York His pamphlet, " An 

 English Freeholder's Address," in the year of his death, 1780 

 Peace at length, 1783 Last letters between Franklin and 

 Fothergill The Countess of Huntingdon Fothergill's proposal 

 for a College of Justice Penn's essay John Sellers A League 

 of Nations Weights and measures Franklin's estimate of 

 Fothergill The last years of Franklin The Fothergill Cup 

 Reflections on the war Was it inevitable ? Fothergill's attitude : 

 its justification The conciliation effort vindicated. 



CHAPTER XXIX 



FOTHERGILL AND THE MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS OF AMERICA 366 



Philadelphia physicians from the early days The Pennsylvania 

 Hospital, 1751 Fothergill's aid to American students Dr. 

 Shippen The Fothergill anatomical pictures Dr. Morgan, 

 founder of the Medical School His Introductory Discourse 

 The young professors, 1765 Fothergill's care for the Hospital 

 Dr. Benjamin Rush The Sydenham of America Rush's career 

 and character King's College, New York The Pennsylvania 

 Land Company Fothergill secures the funds for the Hospital 

 Dr. B. Waterhouse First Professor of Medicine at Harvard A 

 great vaccinator. 



CHAPTER XXX 



FOTHERGILL'S CLOSING YEARS .... 377 



Lessening powers Cares and burdens of Fothergill's later years 

 Illness, 1778 Ackworth His father's grave Dr. Carmichael 

 Smyth and gaol fever Last visit to Ackworth School Illness 

 and death, 1780 Funeral at Winchmore Hill Ann Fothergill, 

 died 1 802 Fothergill's will Sale of his library. 



