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his Quaker and philanthropic friends, 

 DAVID BARCLAY, 

 SAMUEL FOTHERGILL, 

 JOHN HOWARD ; 



and his other American friends, 

 Dr. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, 

 WILLIAM LOGAN, 

 Dr. JOHN MORGAN, 

 JAMES PEMBERTON, 

 Dr. BENJAMIN RUSH, 

 Dr. BENJAMIN WATERHOUSE. 



The names of many other friends of Fothergill, who 

 receive a shorter notice, will be found in the Index. 



Dr. Fothergill was a man of wide interests. In order 

 to render the picture of his life and influence as complete 

 as possible, the author has combined a notice of his 

 medical activities with his other pursuits, notwithstanding 

 that the former may seem to be too technical for inclusion 

 in so general a work. Portions of the chapters on his 

 medical work have already been read before the Royal 

 Society of Medicine and the Hunterian Society, or have 

 been included in papers published in the Practitioner and 

 the Lancet. 



The sources of information are stated in footnotes, 

 especially at the end of a chapter. The bibliography 

 and the manuscript sources are more fully dealt with in 

 the Appendix, where also will be found the text of the 

 Conciliation Proposals for preventing the American War, 

 17741777, now printed from the original documents. 



The author has pleasure in acknowledging the help 

 received from many correspondents, medical, scientific, 

 Quaker and some in the United States, who have supplied 

 references and details ; these will be found noted in their 



