xi DR. WILLIAM HUNTER I3I 



ship of the College of Physicians by their Scottish degrees, 

 Hunter and Fothergill were associated in the " revolt " 

 of the licentiates, as they were also in the early Medical 

 Societies of London. The friendship of the two bachelor 

 physicians is attested by a couple of letters from Fother- 

 gill to Hunter which have been preserved. In character, 

 however, they differed much ; for Hunter combined 

 liberal tastes, much cultivation and upright convictions 

 with a temperament jealous of his own rights and prone 

 to take offence. . But he did great work for the science 

 of medicine in his century, laying exact foundations in 

 anatomy and physiology and even in pathology. He 

 was a consummate teacher, and, like his younger brother 

 John Hunter, had much influence on the generation that 

 followed him. Besides his famous brother and his nephew 

 Dr. Matthew Baillie, Hewson, Cruikshank, Aikin and 

 Cleghorn in the British islands, Shippen, Morgan and 

 Logan in America, were among his many pupils. 1 



DR. ANTHONY FOTHERGILL 



Childless himself, Fothergill found something of the 

 joy of parentage in gathering young men around him, 

 and his own attitude of scrupulous self-discipline was no 

 bar to the freedom of his intercourse with them. They 

 enjoyed, some of them, his frequent company, and learned 

 of him the high ideals of the medical art, the nobility of 

 the true healer of men, and the scientific spirit which 

 interprets nature without prejudice. They learned, too, 

 that love, as they saw it in the smile of Fothergill, could 

 be the law of life. Lettsom was often at Fothergill 's 

 table. Amongst others who met at the same hospitable 

 board were Anthony Fothergill, Percival and Falconer. 



Anthony Fothergill belonged to the Westmoreland 

 branch of the family, and was twenty years junior to 



1 Dr. W. Hunter (born 1718, died 1783), Physician to the Queen, F.R.S., 

 was the author of the Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus (1774), and of 

 other works. See his life by S. F. Simmons, 1783 ; and W. Hunter, Anatomist, 

 Physician, Obstetrician (1901), by the present writer, in which work the two 

 letters from Fothergill are printed. 



