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Lettsom took great pains with the setting of the whole, and 

 gave to his style and periods much polish. So complete and 

 correct an account became the standard biography of Fother- 

 gill, and the source from which all later writers have drawn. 

 It was published in 1782, at first separately, and later ap- 

 pended to The Works of John Father gill, M.D., which were 

 carefully set forth by Lettsom in a quarto edition, and also 

 in three volumes octavo. They were translated into German 

 and published at Altenbourg in 1785. Baron Thomas Dims- 

 dale also printed privately a small Tribute of Friendship to the 

 Memory of Dr. Pother gill in 1783. An Eloge was pronounced 

 upon Fothergill as a Foreign Associate of the Societe Royale de 

 Medecine of Paris by its Secretary, Vicq d'Azyr, in 1782, and 

 is printed in the fourth volume of its Histoire. The eulogist 

 traced in generous and glowing phrases the career of the 

 physician and philanthropist, from materials supplied by 

 Lettsom, not always accurately used. The Memoirs and 

 Correspondence of Lettsom by Pettigrew, 1817, contain further 

 information on Fothergill, as do the Memoirs of Samuel 

 Fothergill by George Crosfield, 1843, and there are many 

 references to him in Nichols' Literary History and Literary 

 Anecdotes. Articles on Fothergill have appeared in numerous 

 dictionaries and biographical works, but have contained little 

 new material. Some of the best are in the Biographie Univer- 

 selle, 1816, an eloquent article written by Dr. Chaumeton of 

 Paris ; Lives of British Physicians, 1830, in this case by Dr. 

 Bisset Hawkins ; Hartley Coleridge's Biographia Borealis \ 

 Hutchinson, Biographia Medica ; Munk, Roll of the Royal 

 College of Physicians of London ; and the Dictionary of National 

 Biography. 



On the occasion of the Centenary of Ackworth School in 

 1879, the late James Hack Tuke wrote an admirable Sketch 

 of the Life of John Fothergill, viewed especially from the 

 Friendly standpoint, and as founder of the school. J. H. 

 Tuke used for this work many letters preserved by the family, 

 some of which cannot now be found. 



Other notices of Fothergill may be found in The Cottage 

 Gardener, vii. 327 ; Loudon, Arboretum ; S. Miller, Retrospect 

 of the Eighteenth Century, i. 368 ; D. H. Forsythe, in Quaker 

 Biographies, Phila., 1910, iv. ; and the present writer's 

 William Hunter and his Friends, 1901, and Dr John Fothergill 

 in The Practitioner, 1911, p. 841. 



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