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DR. JOHN FOTHERGILL 



Royal College of Physicians, 19 

 Royal Medical Society, 15, 118, 



125, 140, 141 



Society of Physicians, 139, 140 

 University and Medical School, n, 

 35 



Edwards, Geo., zoologist, 27 



Ehret, G. D., 36, 198 



Eighteenth century, i ; its literary 

 style, 2, 109 



Elaterium, 36 



Elders, Quaker, 129, 254 



Election, county, 9 



Electricity, 177, 178, 214 



Eliot, Jared, 170 



Eliot, John (1685), 291 n. 



Eliot, John, 211 n., 264, 282 n. 



Ellington, Leonard, 75 



Elliot, Admiral, 184 



Elliot, Sir John, 147, 416 



Ellis, John, 64 n., 172 ., 196, 211 



Ellwood, Thomas, 235 



Emetics, thesis on, 15, 55 



Emlen, Samuel, 245, 262 



Emulsions, 41 



Epidemics, 72 



Epilepsy, 59 



Falconer, John, 291 



Falconer, Dr. W., 20, 135, 154 n., 



227 n. 



Ferris, Dr. S., 150 n. 

 Fevers, treatment of, 41, 72, 102, 120, 



122, 123, 133 

 Fish as food, 230 

 Fisher, T., 364 n. 

 Fontanelle's blisters, 56 

 Ford, Edward, 151 n., 153, 154 

 Fordyce, Dr. George, 147, 150 

 Forster, Reinhold, 136 

 Forster, W. E., 288 

 Foster of Bromley, 264 

 Fothergill family, 6 ff., 263 ff. 

 Fothergill, Ann, 20, 21, 247, 265, 



379, 382 

 Fothergill, Anthony, M.D., 7 ., 25, 



60 n., 131 



Fothergill, Charles, of Toronto, 10 n. 

 Fothergill, Dr. Claud F., 7 . 

 Fothergill, Dr. E. Rowland, 7 n. 

 Fothergill, Sir George, 6 

 Fothergill, Jessie, 4 n. 

 Fothergill, John, sen., 8, 239, 240, 



379 



Fothergill, Dr. John, birth, 4 ; boy- 

 hood, 5 ; apprenticeship, 10 ; 

 enters Edinburgh University, 1 1 ; 

 goes to London to study, 15 ; 

 visits the Netherlands, 16 ; 

 settles in London, 18 ; moves 



to Harpur Street, 24 ; his home 

 life, 263 ; country house, Lea 

 Hall, 23 ; publishes Account of 

 Sore Throat, 20, 49 ; his work in 

 medical societies, 25, 141, 142 ; 

 proposed as physician to the king, 

 25 ; character as a physician, 

 and causes of his success, 30 ; en- 

 lightened use of drugs, 3, 34 ; 

 and of mineral waters, 37 ; some 

 of his patients, 44 ; a consulta- 

 tion, 45 ; his favourite lines of 

 treatment, 47 ; his medical 

 writings, 55 ; dispute with Dr. 

 Leeds, 74 ; his interest in inocula- 

 tion, 79 ; introduces Dimsdale to 

 Russian Court, 86 ; his aid to 

 Lettsom, 100 ; Essay on Dr. A. 

 Russell, 1 20 ; his part in revolt 

 of licentiates of Royal College of 

 Physicians, 143 ff. ; aids to 

 literature, 26 ; his preface to 

 Franklin's Letters on Electricity, 

 177 ; his Account of Collinson, 

 179, 180 ; his benevolence and 

 philanthropy, 218 ff . ; work on 

 slavery, 221 ; prisons, 223 ; 

 vital statistics, 227 ; food, 229 ; 

 and reform of Ixmdon, 231 ; 

 friendship with Samuel Fother- 

 gill, 240 ff. ; character as a 

 Friend, 21, 251 ; clerk to Yearly 

 Meeting, 252, 379 ; work on the 

 Friends' Discipline, 255 ; his 

 account of Quakerism, 256 ; 

 ridiculed in a play, 260 ; work 

 for education (Ackworth School), 

 279 ff., 380 ; work in Pennsyl- 

 vanian affairs, 299 ff. ; friend- 

 ship with Pembertons and 

 Logans, 301 ff. ; intimacy with 

 Franklin, 314 ff. ; his Whig 

 opinions, 28 ; his tracts on 

 American Liberty, 318, 357 ; his 

 part in the Conciliation pro- 

 posals, 29, 323 ff., 393 ff. ; 

 further efforts, 339 ff., 349 ; his 

 attitude in the War of Separa- 

 tion, 364 ; joins Yorkshire Re- 

 form Movement, 356 ; proposes 

 College of Justice, 359 ; his aid 

 to American students and in 

 founding medical colleges in 

 America, 366 ff. ; the Fothergill 

 Anatomical Pictures, 367 ; his 

 closing years, 377 ff. ; illness, 

 381 ; death, 361, 382 ; funeral, 

 ib. ; will, ib. ; income, 20 ; 

 Franklin's estimate of him, 361 ; 

 analysis of his character, 384 ; 



