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PRACTITIONERS F
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Name: Description: Fontana, Felice (Mr)
Italian Physicist
(1730 - 1805)Fontana was educated in Rovereto, Verone, Parma and the University of Padua. He first began researching irritability and sensitivity of the parts of the animal body and published his findings in the collections ‘Mémoires sur les parties sensibles et irritables du corps animal.’ In 1765 Felice was appointed to the chair of logic and, in 1766, to the chair of physics at the University of Pisa. He is most well known for his experiments regarding viper poison and his publication ‘Traite sur le venin de la vipere’,1781. Fordyce, George (Dr)
Physician, lecturer and chemist
(1736 - 1802)Fordyce was born in Aberdeen. He studied at the University of Aberdeen where he was made master of arts at only 14 years old. At the age of 15 he trained with his uncle Dr John Fordyce who was a physician in Uppingham. Fordyce then moved to Edinburgh where he graduated as doctor of medicine in 1758. He then went to London where he lectured on chemistry and medicine and was a physician at St. Thomas Hospital. Foster , Unknown (Dr )
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(Unknown - Unknown )No further information can be found regarding this practitioner. Fothergill, John (Dr)
Physician, naturalist, medical journalist and Quaker philanthropist
(1712 - 1780)Born in Wensleydale, Yorkshire but settled in London after studying medicine at Edinburgh in the 1730s. Gave the first full and accurate description of trigeminal neuralgia in 1773. Edited and contributed to the London Medical Observations. Fowler, Thomas (Dr)
Physician
(1736 - 1801)Born in Stafford, Fowler was best known for his Fowler’s solution which was used as a remedy for fever. The solution contained 1% potassium arsenite. He also published about the medical uses of tobacco such as in ‘Medical reports, of the effects of tobacco, in the cure of dropsies and dysuries, or cases of pain and difficulty of passing urine ... Together with observations--on the medicinal effects of tobacco, 1788.’
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- Fontana, Felice (Mr)
Italian Physicist
(1730 - 1805)
Fontana was educated in Rovereto, Verone, Parma and the University of Padua. He first began researching irritability and sensitivity of the parts of the animal body and published his findings in the collections ‘Mémoires sur les parties sensibles et irritables du corps animal.’ In 1765 Felice was appointed to the chair of logic and, in 1766, to the chair of physics at the University of Pisa. He is most well known for his experiments regarding viper poison and his publication ‘Traite sur le venin de la vipere’,1781.
- Fordyce, George (Dr)
Physician, lecturer and chemist
(1736 - 1802)
Fordyce was born in Aberdeen. He studied at the University of Aberdeen where he was made master of arts at only 14 years old. At the age of 15 he trained with his uncle Dr John Fordyce who was a physician in Uppingham. Fordyce then moved to Edinburgh where he graduated as doctor of medicine in 1758. He then went to London where he lectured on chemistry and medicine and was a physician at St. Thomas Hospital.
- Foster
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No further information can be found regarding this practitioner.
- Fothergill, John (Dr)
Physician, naturalist, medical journalist and Quaker philanthropist
(1712 - 1780)
Born in Wensleydale, Yorkshire but settled in London after studying medicine at Edinburgh in the 1730s. Gave the first full and accurate description of trigeminal neuralgia in 1773. Edited and contributed to the London Medical Observations.
- Fowler, Thomas (Dr)
Physician
(1736 - 1801)
Born in Stafford, Fowler was best known for his Fowler’s solution which was used as a remedy for fever. The solution contained 1% potassium arsenite. He also published about the medical uses of tobacco such as in ‘Medical reports, of the effects of tobacco, in the cure of dropsies and dysuries, or cases of pain and difficulty of passing urine ... Together with observations--on the medicinal effects of tobacco, 1788.’
- Fontana, Felice (Mr)
