Excerpt from Memoirs of John Fothergill, M.D. &C My gratitude and inclination coincided with their wilhes. In my infancy I crolled the Atlantic, and in the fixth year of my age acquired the parental friendlhip of his brother, the pious and benevolent Samuel Fothergill: he was my guardian, directed my education, and bequeathed me to the protection of a phyfician, defervedly repu ted one of the firlt ornaments of the age. My medical creation was his, and my fuc cefs in life, the refult. I hefitated not to fulfil the wifhes of the Society, of which I was a member, and read before them Some Account of the Life of Dr. Fothergill, at their meetings, held july the 17th and Ottoher the 23d, 1782. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.