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John Fothergill FRS (8 March 1712 – 26 December 1780) was an English physician, plant collector, philanthropist and Quaker. His medical writings were influential, and he built up a sizeable botanic garden in what is now West Ham Park in London.
John Fothergill was an English physician who was the first to record coronary arteriosclerosis (hardening of the walls of the arteries supplying blood to the heart muscle) in association with a case of angina pectoris. Fothergill, a Quaker, studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and later.
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Learn about John Fothergill, an English Quaker physician and botanist who patronized many naturalists and collected exotic plants in his garden. See images from his Fothergill Album, which contains paintings of plants and animals by William Bartram.
John Rowland Fothergill (1876–1957) was an English innkeeper and entrepreneur, described as a "pioneer amateur innkeeper" in Who's Who. [1]
John Fothergill, M.D., was the second son of John Fothergill and Margaret Hough his wife, and was born at Carr End in Yorkshire, on the 8th March, 1712. He received his early education at Frodsham in Cheshire, and at Jedberg in his native county.
John Fothergill was a Quaker scientist who made significant advances, both as a medical doctor and as an amateur botanist. He was born into a Quaker family in Yorkshire, England and studied at Sedbergh Grammar School before being apprenticed to an apothecary in Bradford.
Apr 30, 2013 · John Fothergill was a remarkable but largely forgotten physician, plant collector, and philanthropist, born of Quaker parents in Yorkshire. This article summarizes the legacy of his work on trigeminal neuralgia and migrainous “sick headaches,” and his seminal studies on angina, scarlatina, and diptheria.
