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George Fordyce FRS FRCP (18 November 1736 – 25 May 1802) was a distinguished Scottish physician, lecturer on medicine, and chemist, who was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.
22 de sept. de 2001 · Educated at Aberdeen and Edinburgh at the height of the ‘golden age’ of Scottish medicine, George Fordyce came to London, where he began to lecture on chemistry and medical subjects. As a physician at St Thomas's Hospital he became an authority on fevers, but his scientific interests remained wide.
George Fordyce, M.D., was born at Aberdeen 18th November, 1736. He was the posthumous and only child of Mr. George Fordyce, the possessor of a small landed estate called Broadford, in the neighbourhood of that city.
Educated at Aberdeen and Edinburgh at the height of the 'golden age' of Scottish medicine, George Fordyce came to London, where he began to lecture on chemistry and medical subjects. As a physician at St Thomas's Hospital he became an authority on fevers, but his scientific interests remained wide.
George Fordyce Story (1800-1885), medical practitioner, was born on 4 June 1800 in London, the son of George Story, Wesleyan minister. He received his early schooling in London and, after three years apprenticeship to a chemist in Aberdeen, studied medicine in Edinburgh, received his diploma in 1824, and practised in London.
Dr George Fordyce Story (1800-1885) was an English-born doctor who became district assistant surgeon in Van Diemen's Land. He was a keen naturalist and photographer. This is thought to be one of the earliest photographic self-portraits taken in Australia, if not the earliest.
George Fordyce 1736–1802. Click portrait to view at full size. Enquiring spirit. Fordyce was among the Scotch doctors who travelled to London to make their mark. He was a founder (with John Hunter) of The Society for the Improvement of Medical and Chirurgical Knowledge in 1783.
