FORDYCE. 
aie the odium which it ‘brought on his famil re did sapere 
rate unfavourably on the Lieu ie hy other 
uals 
Toller, his colleague: a number of perfons conceiving the 
' latter to be che injured, withdrew au him to another 
place of wo in the year 
Fordyce caged oo dut 
n he difcontinued his public fervices. 
ered “A Charge’’ 
Bath, whee he died OGober rit, 
his a The doctor’s writings difco 
imagination, a correct. tafte, panes Tigi .of the 
and a happy method of engaging the attention ; 
Mie pty, and a zeal for na nhs of genuine virtue. 
His religious fentiments were manly and rational; in pri- 
vate life - was ee amiable, and j aftly beloved by all 
who knew s the piece saleendy noticed, he was 
the author ay e ie ns to You n,’? in two vo- 
lumes, which have been very penelly ead «A Sermon 
on the Character and Condud of the I’emale Sex oe Ad- 
place. ge of eighteen he had finifhed his academic 
ftudies, and had “Sittinguithed himfelf by his proficiency in 
rmy -as a volunteer, and afterwards fer 
the brigade of gu n the France, and in the 
German wars. warm fupport of his military friends 
co-operated with his own merit in early recommending 
m to extenfive practice in London ; and he was fent for 
to greater diftances and received larger fums in remune- 
ration, than almoft any phyfician of ov time. He went to 
Switzerland, to Italy twice, : otland twice, and to 
vif e of his noble and 
— patients. ealth, which ‘ins en in upon 
im, he moft liber. ally. diftributed i in acts of friendfhip and 
"bounty. Although he fuffered feverely from the bank- 
ruptcy of his brother, Alexander Fordyce, a ee he 
afterwards became bound for him, to the e of ten 
thonfand pounds, in the project of a manufacture, Niles 
totally failed. And here we muft not not omit a 
ftance, which equally.redounds to the credit a fir Willian 
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4 
and of the gentlemen concerned. Sir illiam was called 
upon to pay this in an hour, or ae : when 
r. Geor rawford, of Hertfordfhire, and firs. 
Drummond, een difcharged the debt, without re- 
her fecurity than their confidence in fir 
the determined in- 
families, and a ticket 2 his relations was unbounded. 
His brother clergyma ence o 
init eadiive ie to 
thoufand pounds by the banker’s failure. 
immediately indemnified him to the full amount of his lofs. 
He wrote a treatife ** on Fevers,”? and ‘onthe oo 
Sore Throat,’? which contributed to extend his fame on 
his entering ee practice : he likewife publthed “a eal 
on the Vene Difeafe.” - He fuffered a long and fevere 
illnefs, which ea his life, on the fourth of December 
E792, "at his houfe, in Brook-ftreet, Grofvenor-fquare. See 
Gent. ee part ii. for 1792 
Forpyce, GEORGE, an eminent phyfician, was born at 
Rete, on is _ of Nov. 1736; after the death of 
his = er, “ordyc ce, was proprietor of a 
y an 
Fouran, where he received his {chool fincse Thence 
le was removed to the univerfity of Aberdeen, where hé 
took the degree of Mafter - Arts, when only fourteen 
early formed a difpofition to 
windows o 
op; and partly to his acquaintance wth 
the learned Dr. Ale ree Garden, then an 
having defended a thefis on catarrh. 
Edinburgh, Dr. Cullen was fo much 
diligence Oy sabe that, befides pe him many 
other m 
iy 
1758, ame to London ; 
edicine ; a determination, which was greatly 
difapproved of by his relations, as the whole o 
eae ee aa fast ioe Bae is education. 
is a ofe, 
ourle 
thefe three {ubje€ts for nearly thirty years, giving, for the 
moft part, three courfes of lectures on each of ‘them every 
year ; a courfe which contifted of fix lectures in the week 
Phyijicians ; and in 177 ofen phyfician to St. 
Thomas’s hofpital, after a confiderable conteft with Dr. 
afterwards fir William Watfon, whom he overcame by a 
majority of three, ps 1cg votes againift 106. 
he became a mém the Literary Club; in 1776 he 
wae elected a ela of the Royal Society; and in ai 
