Volume 1

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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    [ 4° 3 with dignity of underftanding, while it tends to the enlargement of natural knowledge, and prefents to the contemplative beholder a com¬ pendious difplay of the wonders of creation ! As in this defign, as well as in others, his views were great antj philofophical, fo they were nobly an- fwered, and, as far as poffible, per¬ petuated, by his offering, in his laft will, to Dr. William Hunter, our re- f'peitable Prefident, an advantageous purchafe of thefe rarities. They now conftitute a part of his magnificent mufeum. A reprefentation of his character would be effentially defective, if it concluded without fome view pf his conduct through the moft trying vi- / ^ * ciffitudes of life. Though lie long floprifhed in profperity and in thp public