V O T 
From the prefs. His prefcriptions were fimple and ele., 
gant, and he paid more attention to the regulation of 
diet and regimen than is ufually done : by fuch means he 
often effected cures in diforders which had refitted more 
violent applications. Dr. Fothergill was a man of warm 
feelings, and entered with zeal into every topic in which 
the good of.fociety was concerned. He was truly a pub¬ 
lic character; and as a member of that religious fociety 
which has diftinguiftied itfelf beyond any other by its phi¬ 
lanthropic exertions, he largely partook of its fpirit, and 
promoted its plans. On the fociety itfelf he conferred 
the important benefit of projecting, and actively carrying 
into effeCt, the inftitution of a large public fchool at Ack- 
worth in Yorkfliire, at a houfe originally ereCted by the 
Foundling hofpital. He was the airociate of the benevo¬ 
lent Mr. Howard in his attempts to improve the condi¬ 
tion and preferve the health of poor prifoners ; and he 
confented to be joined with him in the ottice of l'uper- 
vifor of a penitentiary-houfe to be ereCted on a new plan, 
though he did not live to fee the work carried into exe¬ 
cution. Few phyficians have more liberally bcftowed 
either their profeflional advice, or their pecuniary aid, at 
the call of charity ; and few men of his fortune have ex¬ 
pended fo much in promoting fcience and ufeful know¬ 
ledge. His mode of living was fimple and unottentatious, 
fuitable to the principles of the religion to which he be¬ 
longed. His manners were highly pleafing, and his de¬ 
meanor in a fiek room was fingularly calculated to infpire 
confidence. His converfation abounded with inttruCtion, 
and was equally cheering and improving to the younger 
part of his acquaintance, whom he delighted to encou¬ 
rage. It may be added, that he was fincerely pious, and 
a firm believer in the promifes of Revelation. His moral 
charaCfer cannot be better fummed up than is done by his 
friend Dr. Franklin in a letter to Dr. Lettfom. “ If we 
may eftimate the goodnefs of a man by his difpofition to 
do good, and his conltant endeavours and fuccefs in doing 
it, I can hardly conceive that a better man has ever 
exitted.” Dr. Fothergill’sconftitution was delicate ; but 
by great temperance and attention he refitted all the fa¬ 
tigues of his profefiion, till a fupprefiion of urine carried 
liinfoff on December 26, 1780, in the fixty-ninth year of 
his age. His works, confiding of his medical papers and 
pamphlets, of two elegant pieces of biographical eulogy 
(on Peter Collinfon, and on Dr. Alexander Ruflel), and 
of fome political and mifcellaneous eflays and letters, 
were publilhed in a collective form, with Memoirs of his 
Life, by John Coakley Lettfom, M. D. 3V0IS. 8vo. 1784. 
FOTHERGIL'LA, f. [In memory of John Fother¬ 
gill, M.D. an eminent phyfician, and patron of botany ; 
who cultivated a variety of the moft curious plants in his 
garden near London.] In botany, a genus of the clafs 
polyandria, order digynia, natural order of amentaceas, 
( 3 U U•) The generic characters are—Calyx: perianthium 
one-leafed, bell-fhaped, clofe, truncate, Jhort, permanent. 
Corolla: none. Stamina: filaments very many, filiform, 
thicker at top, long; antherie minute, ereCt, quadrangu¬ 
lar. Piftillum : germ ovate, bifid ; ttyles two, fubulate, 
terminating, the length of the ttamens. Pericarpium : 
capfule hardened, two-lobed, two celled ; lobes two- 
valved. Seeds : folitary, bony.— EJfential Charatter. Ca¬ 
lyx, ament ovate ; fcales one-flowered. Corolla; calyx- 
form, one-petalled, five-cleft. 
' Fothergilla alnifolia, or alder-leaved Fothergilla, afin- 
gle fpecies, and two varieties : «, Fothergilla obtufa, or 
broad-leaved Fothergilla; / 2 , Fothergilla acuta, or nar¬ 
row-leaved Fothergilla. Fothergilla is a tree, having the 
appearance and leaves of alder. Leaves alternate, petiol- 
ed,.wedge-ftiaped, entire, ferrate at the tip, ferratures very 
large and few, the upper (urface green, the lower hoary, 
the younger ones white with nap underneath. Flowers 
in -a dole fpike at the end of the ftem, like an oblong 
head, and white. Native of North America. Intro¬ 
duced in 1765, by Mr. JohnBufh. It flowers from April 
to June. 
Vol. VII. No. 454. 
F O U 617 
| 3 . Jacquin defcribes this as a branching flirub, with 
ferruginous round branches ; leaves oblong, obfcurely 
crenate at top, on fliort petioles, alternate, fmooth. 
Capfule two-celled ; feeds folitary. Native of Carolina. 
See alfo Melastoma. 
FOTH'ERING AY, a town in the county of Northamp¬ 
ton, on the Neu, where was a cattle in which Richard III. 
was born ; and the unfortunate Mary, queen of Scotland, 
was condemned and beheaded in the year 1586. See the 
article England. The cattle was dettroyed by order of 
James I. Two miles north of Oundle, and eighty-five 
north of London. 
FO'TINBL, f A weight of lead containing about ten 
ftone. Not much ufed. 
FO'TION, f. The ad of nourifliing, nourifhment. 
Bailey. Not vfed. 
FO'TIVE, adj. Nourifliing, nourifiled. Cole. Little vfed. 
FO'TUS,/. with phyficians, a fermentation. Scott. 
FOU, a town of China, of the fecond rank, in the pro- 
vince of Cheng-fi : 420 miles fouth-weft of Peking. Lat. 
26. 5. N. Ion. i2<S. 30. E. Ferro. , 
FOU-AN, a town of Afia, in the kingdom of Corea: 
thirty-five miles weft-north-weft of Coufou. 
FOU-CHAN, a town of China, of the third rank, in 
the province of Chang-tong : twenty-five miles fouth-eaft: 
of Teng-tcheou. 
FOU-CHUN, a town of China, of the third rank, in 
the province of Se-tchuen : thirty miles north-weft of 
Tche-li-leou. 
FOU-FONG, a town of China, of the third rank, in the 
province of Quang-tong : twenty-two miles eaft-fouth-eaft 
of Fong-tfiang. 
FOU-KEOLT, a town of China, of the third rank, in 
the province of Honan : thirty miles eaft-north-eaft of Hiu- 
FOU-KIANG, a town of China, of the third rank, in 
the provinceof Quang-tong : twenty miles weft-north-weft 
of Tfin. 
FOU-KO, a towm of China, of the third rank, in the 
province of Quang-tong : fixty-five miles north-north-eaft 
of Kia. 
FOU-MING, a town of China, of the third rank, in 
the province of Yun-nan : fifteen miles north-north-weft of 
Yun-nan. 
FOU-NHING, a town of China, of the fecond rank, 
in the province of Fo-kien : 775 miles fouth-fouth-eaft of 
Peking. Lat. 26. 54. N. Ion. 137. 35. E. Ferro. 
FOU-NIM, a town of China, of the third rank, in the 
province of Pe-tche-li: twenty miles eaft of Yong-pang. 
FOU-PIM, a town of China, in the province of Pe- 
tche-li: fixty-three-miles weft of Paoting. 
FOU-PIN, a town of China, of the third rank, in the 
province of Quang-tong : twelve miles fouth-eaft of Yao. 
FOU-TCHEOU, a city of China, of the firft rank, in 
the province of Fo-kien, and one of the moft conliderable 
in the province, on account of its trade, the number of 
learned men, and the convenience of its rivers and harbour. 
It is the relidence of a viceroy : 870 miles fouth of Pe¬ 
king. Lat. 26. 4. N. Ion. 136. 50. E. Ferro. 
FOU-TCHEOU, a city of China, of the firft rank, in 
the province of Kiang-fi : formerly one of the moft beau¬ 
tiful cities of China, but almoft ruined by the invafion ot 
the Tartars : 735 miles fouth of Peking. Lat. 27. 55. N. 
Ion. 133. 42.E. Ferro. 
FOU-TCHING-Y, a town of China, in the province 
of Kiang-nan : feventeen miles north-eaft of Liutcheou. 
FOU-TCHUEN, a town of China, in the province of 
Chan-fi : thirty-five miles eaft-north-eaft of Ping-lo 
FOU-TSING, a town of China, of the third rank, in 
the province of Fo-kien : feventeen miles fouth-fouth-eaft 
of Fou-tcheou. 
FOU-YANG, a town of China, of the third rank, in 
the province of Tche-kiang : thirty-one miles north-north- 
eaft of Yen-tcheou. 
FOU'A, or Fouat. See Faoua, p. 213, of this 
volume. 
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