Works : With some account of his life / By John Coakley Lettsom.
- John Fothergill
- Date:
- 1784
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![[ «« ] SOME ACCOUNT OF THE DISEASE OF WHICH DR. FOTHERGILL DIED. HE urinary bladder, though fituated in the lower part of the abdomen. where it is accefiible, by the paffage of the urethra, to the introduction of an external inftrument; and, pofteriorly, by the rectum, almoft to the contact of the finger; is neverthelefs liable to difeafes, the ftate and nature of which, during life, have been fo dubious, as to be afcertained by diffection only after death. Morgagni * * * §, who has paid attention to the difeafes of this vifcus, admits this difficulty ; and the Symptomata and Extifpicia of Lieutaud f afford the moft decifive proofs of this uncertainty, as well as the Nofologia of Sauvages J, and the writings of many other authors of celebrity §. Dr. Fothergill’s difeafe was one of thofe attended with fome obfcurity : - we may trace fymptoms of it as early as 1778, which was almoft two years before its fatal termination. I have before me the Doctor's own opinion upon * De Caufis et Sedibus Morborum, lib. iii. lit. 41, art. 12, and particularly 13, 16, 17; and his numerous authorities, to lit. 43, art. 4. f Hiftoria Anatomico-Medica, vol. i. p. 293, et feq. ; vol. ii. p. 330; Obf. 1333 ad 1352. J Nofologia, vol. ii. p. 520, et feq. de Ifchuria. § It is not my defign to fpeak particularly of the difeafes of the bladder; and therefore refer to the writers already quoted, and to their numerous authorities, which may be feen under the pages to which I have referred. I may likewife add here, that Hippocrates, and many ancient writers, contain very ufeful fadts upon this fubjedt; and of the moderns, confult Hoffmanni Oper. tom. iii. p. 275 ; Suppl. Secuna. p. 476 ; De Exulceratione Veficas; Comment, de Rebus, vol. xvii. p. 3. pag. 641; and particularly Ada Academ. Regis Scientiar. an. 1758, vol. xix. j Comment, de Rebus, vol. viii. p. 16, vol. xix. p. 469, vol. xxi. p. 500; Adverfaria Medico-Praftica, vol. ii. p. 675, entitled, Com- mentatio de Ifchuria ex Tumoribus Veficae ; Petit Traite des Maladies, &c. tom. iii. p. 7 ; journal de Medecine, par M. A. Roux, tom. 31, Paris 1769.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21517460_0771.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
