Volume 2

Memoirs of the life and a view of the character of the late Dr. John Fothergill / Drawn up at the desire of the Medical Society of London.

  • Thompson, Gilbert, 1728-1803.
Date:
1782
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Credit: Memoirs of the life and a view of the character of the late Dr. John Fothergill / Drawn up at the desire of the Medical Society of London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    complilhments and the integrity of his life. In this place it may not be improper to mention what I once ga¬ thered from a converfation with him, that, previous to his entrance on the practice, he took efpecial care to be matter of the diagnoftic figns, and the moft approved methods in the treat¬ ment of difeafes, whofe attacks are fudden and inftantaneous, and their progrefs too quick for deliberation; a wife precaution deferving to be imitated. During his attendance at thefe col¬ leges he formed fome very happy and advantageous friendfhips with ftudents of promifing parts, who became after¬ wards fo many ornaments to the pro- feffion, as the late Dr. Alexander Ruflel, who wrote the Hiftory of Aleppo; Dr. Cleghorn, lately pro- ,» 1 fefior