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See also:FOTHERGILL, See also:JOHN (1712—1780) , See also:English physician, was See also:born of a Quaker See also:family on the 8th of See also:March 1712 at Carr End in See also:Yorkshire. He took the degree of M.D. at See also:Edinburgh in 1736, and after visiting the See also:continent of See also:Europe he in 1740 settled in See also:London, where he gained an extensive practice. In the epidemics of See also:influenza in 1795 and 1776 he is said to have had sixty patients daily. In his leisure he made a study of conchology and See also:botany; and at Upton, near See also:Stratford, he had an extensive botanical See also:garden where he See also:grew many rare See also:plants obtained from various parts of the See also:world. He was the See also:patron of See also:Sidney See also:Parkinson, the See also:South See also:Sea voyager. A See also:translation of the See also:Bible (1764 sq.) by See also:Anthony Purver, a Quaker, was made and printed at his expense. His pamphlet entitled " See also:Account of the Sore See also:Throat attended with Ulcers " (1748) contains one of the first descriptions of See also:diphtheria in English, and was translated into several See also:languages. He died in London on the 26th of See also:December 1780.
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