PREFACE 



DR. JOHN FOTHERGILL was a London physician, a 

 man of science, a Quaker and a philanthropist, and 

 one who had special relations with the American pro- 

 vinces before and during the War of Separation. 



The friends of Dr. Fothergill of whom an account is 

 given in this work are chiefly the following : 



his medical friends, 

 Dr. JOHN AIKIN, 

 Dr. GEORGE CLEGHORN (Dublin), 

 Dr. WILLIAM CUMING (Dorchester), 

 Baron THOMAS DIMSDALE, 

 Dr. WILLIAM FALCONER (Bath), 

 Dr. ANTHONY FOTHERGILL (Bath), 

 Dr. WILLIAM HUNTER, 

 Dr. JOHN COAKLEY LETTSOM, 

 Dr. THOMAS PERCIVAL (Manchester), 

 Dr. ALEXANDER RUSSELL, 

 Dr. JOHN RUTTY (Dublin), 

 Dr. GILBERT THOMPSON : 



his scientific friends, 



JOHN BARTRAM (Philadelphia), 



WILLIAM BARTRAM (Philadelphia), 



PETER COLLINSON, 



MENDEZ DA COSTA, 



HUMPHRY MARSHALL (Pennsylvania), 



Dr. JOSEPH PRIESTLEY : 



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