A complete collection of the medical and philosophical works ... with an account of his life and occasional notes / by J. Elliot.
- John Fothergill
- Date:
- 1781
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A complete collection of the medical and philosophical works ... with an account of his life and occasional notes / by J. Elliot. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![MIFE TORS Tt AUTOR. iti returned again with greater violence, and, notwith- ftanding every effort of.the Medical Gentlemen who attended him *, put a period to his'exiftence on the 26th day of December 1780, in’ the 69th year of his age. On diffection, the difeafe app: ared to have been occafioned by a ‘ch'‘rous enlarge- ment of the proftate, which compr fi-d'the neck ‘of the bladder fo as to prevent the introduction of a catheter. His remains were, on the 5th of January following, depofited in the burial ground at Winchmore-Hill, being attended by more than feventy coaches and poft-chatfes filled with Friends, who feized this ‘laft occafion to pay a tribute of refpeét to the memory of the decealed. Dying a batchelor, he devifed’ the bulk of his fortune to a maiden fitter, who refided with him for many years before his death. He likewile bequeathed handfome legacies to his otner rela. _» tions and friends. His library, which confifted of an excellent colleétion of books in Phyfic and Natural Hiftory, particularly the latcer, has lately been fold by au€tion; and Dr. Hunter shas’ pur- cchafed his colleétion of fheils and corals of his executors for 1200], ; our Author, by his will, * Dr. Warren, Dr. Watfon,; Dr. Reynolds, and Mr. Pott. b having](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33288434_0033.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
