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John Fothergill

British physician
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Born:
March 8, 1712, Wensleydale, Yorkshire, England
Died:
December 26, 1780, London (aged 68)

John Fothergill (born March 8, 1712, Wensleydale, Yorkshire, England—died December 26, 1780, London) was an English physician who was the first to record coronary arteriosclerosis (hardening of the walls of the arteries supplying blood to the heart muscle) in association with a case of angina pectoris. Fothergill, a Quaker, studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and later became a highly successful London practitioner. His “Account of the Sore Throat Attended with Ulcers” (1748) was the first authoritative paper on diphtheria. He also described facial neuralgia and migraine. Fothergill popularized the use of coffee in England and promoted its cultivation ...(100 of 113 words)

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