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215:, having earlier described him as "an upright, stern old man... an old prig," later recorded when she was his patient: "He really has been... amazingly civil and polite to me... as kind as he is skilful." His niece Betty Fothergill described him in her journal as "surely the first of men. With the becoming dignity of age he unites the cheerfulness and liberality of youth. He possesses the most virtues and the fewest failings of any man I know". 22: 694: 524: 70:, London. After visiting continental Europe in 1740, he settled in London, where he gained an extensive practice. During the influenza epidemics of 1775 and 1776 he is said to have treated 60 patients a day. 171:(1744–1815), a Quaker physician and a protégé of his, exclaimed that "the sphere seemed transposed, as the Arctic Circle joined with the equator". Lettsom published a catalogue of Fothergill's garden: 283: 868: 119:
in English and was translated into several languages. His rejection of ineffective traditional therapies for the disease saved many lives. He was a personal friend of
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in Yorkshire, the son of John Fothergill (1676–1745), a Quaker preacher and farmer, and his first wife, Margaret Hough (1677–1719). After studying at
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is named in his honour. The standard author abbreviation Foth. is used to indicate him when citing a botanical name. He was elected a
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Hortus Uptonensis, or a catalogue of the plants in the Dr Fothergill's garden at Upton, at the time of his decease anno 1780
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John Fothergill died in London on 26 December 1780 aged 68, of urinary retention perhaps linked with prostate cancer.
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Memoirs of the Life and Gospel Labours of Samuel Fothergill, with Selections from his Correspondence
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Chain of friendship : selected letters of Dr. John Fothergill of London, 1735-1780
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Bernet, Claus (2010). "John Fothergill (physician)". In Bautz, Traugott (ed.).
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A Complete Collection of the Medical and Philosophical Works of John Fothergill
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Gledhill, David (2008). "The Names of Plants". Cambridge University Press.
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The kiss of life in the eighteenth century: the fate of an ambiguous kiss
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Dr. John Fothergill and his friends; chapters in eighteenth century life
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and grew many rare plants obtained from various parts of the world (now
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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DeLacy, Margaret (October 2007) . "Fothergill, John (1712–1780)".
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of London, citing the work of a Scottish physician and surgeon,
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contains information on John Fothergill, the author's father
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
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Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Medical School
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Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL)
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Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
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Gilbert Stuart
FRS
Quaker
West Ham Park
Bainbridge
Sedbergh School
Edinburgh
St Thomas's Hospital
Royal Society
William Tossach
mouth-to-mouth ventilation
trigeminal neuralgia
angina
diphtheria
streptococcal sore throat
Benjamin Franklin
conchology
botany
Upton House
West Ham
Essex
Greater London
botanical garden
West Ham Park
glasshouses
John Coakley Lettsom
Fothergilla
Fellow of the Royal Society
American Philosophical Society

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