The Cullen Project | People [PERS ID:707]

People [PERS ID:707]

Field	Data
ID	707
Title	Dr
First Name	John
Middle Name/Initial(s)
Last Name	Fothergill
Maiden Name
AKA
Gender	Male
Occupation
Medical Professional?	Medical Professional

Birth/Death

Birth/Death
Birth (year)	1712
Date of death (year)	1780

Notes


Physician, naturalist, medical journalist and Quacker philanthropist. 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.

Cases that this person appears in:

Count	Case ID	Case Name
1	Case 132	Case of Mrs Woodcock who has suffered a paralysis down her left side.
2	Case 392	Cases communicated by Charles Broughton, a London surgeon, who sends Cullen letters detailing the successful use of his proprietary ointment that is supposed to cure tumours.
3	Case 482	Case of Miss Anne Downman, sister of Dr Hugh Downman, who has suffered from hysterical symptoms and urinary tract ailments since the death of a brother in 1771.
4	Case 794	Case of Mr Thomas Irwin [Irwine] who suffers from swollen legs, itchiness and biliousness and which eventually proves fatal.
5	Case 860	Case of George Rae who has a nervous weakness and suffers from a great 'uneasiness' in his mind.
6	Case 950	Case of Mr Gibson of Kelton who has been affected by the cold in church and has an habitual cough.
7	Case 1002	Case of an unnamed 'young lady' attended by Dr Heysham for Typhus.
8	Case 1102	Case of a male patient of Dr Jacob at Wexford, a lawyer who suffers from gout.
9	Case 1106	Case of Mr Alexander Wright who has an oedema (dropsy), manifest as fluid retention in his abdomen attributed to his habitual heavy drinking.
10	Case 1321	Case of an unnamed male patient who writes of suffering bouts of severe chest pain since 1778.
11	Case 1634	Case of William Norris, a surgeon at Hull, who suffers from a range of symptoms including a hectic fever with vomiting and other stomach complaints considered 'nervous'.
12	Case 1780	Case of Mr Darrell who has various symptoms including a skin complaint, a cold, feverishness and a nephritic condition.
13	Case 1850	Case of a male friend of Dr Sue who sends Cullen a long case-history in French; his symptoms are primarily termed hypochondriacal and vapourish.
14	Case 1917	Case of an unnamed female patient who has a long history of being inactive, anxious and beset by various ailments, including swollen legs, an eruption on her face and other complaints as reported by Dr Holland. She has visited various English spas.
15	Case 2389	Case of the eldest daughter, aged twelve, of Thomas Gillespie, practitioner at Ayr.
16	Case 2515	Case of reverend Richard Lettrente.