FOR 
he was admitted, /peciali gratia, a fellow of the College of | 
Phyficians. is circumftance evinces the.high opinien of 
his abilities entertained by his profeffional brethren: for as 
h 
t he had forfeited all title 
o be admitted fae the fellow thip throu avour. But 
it is kelieved that the yaa rene og this = engage ed 
n preparing a new edition of their ‘ Pharmacopwia,’’ 
wifely fuppreffed their refentment, i in mbna: te obtain the 
aflitance of Dr. Fordyce in the profecution of this work, 
there being confeffedly none of their own number fo well 
ss alone with pharmaceutical chemiftry as himfelf. In 
‘1793 he affifted in forming a {mall fociety of: phyficians and 
urgeons, which has ea doo i ° spr ee volumes under 
the title of « Tra s of a 
his are in ee ynern in the Strand, onthe 25th of 
May, 
From 
uch as many of his cotempo- 
ries, lay ve ae refulted too, from his fond- 
é es for the plete of eee to which he aca ealuacied 
‘h oul - Metals acquire on being calcined. 8, 
e hours” th at | 
to leture for three ho orning, without haede un- 
dreffed imfelf the piecoding nig e vigour of his 
conttitution enabled: him {tain for a confiderable time, 
of lif 
n 
without apparent injury, this debilitating mode 
but at length he-was attacked with the gout, which after- 
wards prea irregular, and for many years frequently 
affected him with excruciating pains in his ftomach and 
owels : in ae latter part of his life, alfo, his feet and 
ankles were almoft conftantly fwollen, and a little ay 
before his death he had fymptoms of water in the c 
rft eectone cleale (gout), he uniformly artes 
buted his fituation, which, f eeks previous to 
his diffolution, he knew to be as ‘le - 
r.G: Fordyce pofleffed a enatkebly accurate and re- 
me memory, in which he placed fuch great confidence, 
that he gave all his leGures without notes; and it is not 
known that he ever had any 3 nor did he make any me 
ie there “many yeas befo 
invodlved, nr ieee ‘and obfcur 
‘offends againit the common al of ntax, b 
ia eee to orthography ; 3 and his ‘want a met pee led 
4 
d — he fara, bs Leer 
.AtO.. 
im to fo ju 
or ge! years but little 
and never, even in 
mpr 
es Obferations on the Compofition of Medicines. 
FOR 
him to frequerit Lies oe faults jets iin one 
have been avoided, ha lefs perfe& m led him,. 
from. his early aiiade 3 to —_ S writing tie information : 
rdyce the author of fever. publications, ; 
bothis on medical cat philofophica fubjects. 1. <6 - ements 
of the PraGicé of Phyfic.”? ‘This was ufed as = 
book for a part of aa courfe of pee on that fabjedy 
and was publifhed in two parts, in 1768 and 4770, in 
2. Elements of fetes and -Vegetation.’” 
He had given a courfe‘oF leCtures on this fubje&t to fome 
young men of rank, foon after the clofe of which, one - 
of his hearers, ae late Mr. Stewart pea prefented. 
him with a copy of them from notes which ad taken. : 
Dr. Fordyce corrected the copy, and afterwards publifhed 
it in 1771 in 4to. 3 ‘ A Treatife on the Digeftion of 
ood,” 8vo. 17913 which was ase Me read sae the - 
College of Phylicians as the Gulftonian lefture. ut the 
ork on which he emplo oyed the mott labour, was a feries - 
of “ Differtations on Fever,”? of which four were publithed - 
during his life, and one left in meauleneh which has fince - 
been printed. His other writings coniilt of papers, which 
_ appeared in the Philofophical Tranfattions of the Royal: 
of the Society for abe 
bjects. e 
Laight) produced ‘by Hees 2. ae 
the of Dr. W. Hunters 
ete iea ny affaying eee ores. 4. ne Account. 
of fone Tepe on the Lofs of Weight in Bodies on 
7. On ‘the Caufe of the additional Weight which 
.ccount of a new: 
Pendulum, ae the Bakeri 
mpt to ove the evidence of Medicine. 3. So: 
He was 
befides the projeCtor of the experiments in heated roomss 
an account of which was given'to the Royal Society -by 
fir Charles Blagden; and he was the author of many ime. 
provements in various arts connected with chemiftry, on 
which he was frequently confulted by manufacturers. See 
ent. E- or June, 
r Fowre; in Geogr aphy, a ean ee oe 
or, as Dr. Bea ufort calls it, a miferable village of the 
county of Weftmeath, Ireland, near Lough Lene ; formerly 
been qitee a feat ae literatures It has at aaa the 
ruins of feveral en buildings. It is 2 miles from Caftle- 
Pollard, and abou 
ublin 
RE seas Ship, denotes all that part ofa  thip’s 
frame and tachiney ee lies near the ftem 
ORE aft, is uled for the whole fhip? s length, or 
from end ta 
Fore Boasts is the bowline of the fore. fail. ; 
Fors-Caftle of a Ship, is a fhort deck placed in the fore 
part of the thine above the upper deck. 
It is ufually terminated, both saa = pin by a 
a in veffels of war; the fore rming the 
of the beak-head, a the sae ue to t aad 
afte-part - ra fore- chains. 
harpings, are thofe that are ‘ufed to brace in 
the upper wees of the fore-fhrouds. See as ee 
