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in April, 1797. In the beginning of 1800 he was compelled by an increasing asthma to leave town. Returning to Buckinghamshire, he took up his residence at Beaconsfield, where he practised with great success, and was appointed a magistrate of the county. Dr. Ferris died at Exmouth, Devon, 18th September, 1831. He was a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and the author of

A Dissertation on Milk, in which an attempt is made to ascertain its Natural Use, and explain its Effects in the Cure of Various Diseases. 8vo. Lond. 1785.

A General View of the establishment of Physic as a Science in England by the incorporation of the College of Physicians of London. 8vo. Lond. 1795.

WILLIAM LANSDALE was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College of Physicians 14th February, 1786, He settled in Maryland, and his name is continued on the College list until 1833.

JOHN ATKINSON was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College 24th February, 1786. He practised at Leicester, and died about the year 1788.

SIR WILLIAM FORDYCE, M.D., was the brother of Dr. John Fordyce before mentioned (Roll, vol. ii, p. 212), was born at Aberdeen in 1724, and educated at Marischal college. His medical knowledge was probably acquired at Edinburgh, as I see he was admitted a member of the Medical Society of that city 22nd December, 1744. He joined the army as a volunteer, and afterwards served as surgeon on the coast of France and in the wars of Germany. Upon the establishment of peace he settled as a surgeon in London, and attained to considerable business. In 1770 he was created doctor of medicine at Cambridge by royal mandate, and was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 10th April, 1786. He was knighted by George the Third in 1787, and died at his house in Brook-street, Grosvenor-square, after a long and severe illness, 4th

December, 1792, aged sixty-eight. He was the author of

A Review of the Venereal Disease and its Remedies. 8vo. Lond. 1767.

A new Inquiry into the Causes, Symptoms, and Cure of Putrid and Inflammatory Fevers, with an Appendix on the Hectic Fever and on the Ulcerated Sore Throat. 8vo. Lond. 1773.

The great Importance and proper Method of cultivating and curing Rhubarb in Britain for Medical Uses. 8vo. Lond. 1784. Fragmenta Chirurgica et Medica. 8vo. Lond. 1784.

A Letter to Sir John Sinclair on the Virtues of Muriatic Acid in curing Putrid Diseases. 8vo. Lond. 1790.

JOHN GRIEVE, M.D.-A native of Peebles-shire and a doctor of medicine of Glasgow of 2nd October, 1777; was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 10th April, 1786. He was admitted a fellow of the Royal Society 5th June, 1794. Dr. Grieve settled in Russia; and his name disappears from the College List in 1807.

JOSEPH PHELAN, M.D.-A native of King's county, Ireland, and a doctor of medicine of Glasgow of 25th July, 1785; was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 10th April, 1786.

GEORGE BUXTON, M.D., was born in Middlesex, 14th December, 1730, and was the son of Charles Buxton of Braxtead, co. Essex, by his wife Hannah, daughter of George Read of London, esq. He was educated at Edinburgh, where he took his degree of doctor of medicine 9th July, 1756 (D.M.I. de Amaurosi). He was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 26th June, 1786. Dr. Buxton was a fellow of the Royal Society, and practised for some time at Chelmsford, whence he removed to Greenwich, where he died, 1st January, 1805, in his seventy-fifth year.

WILLIAM BUTTER, M.D., was born in the Orkneys in 1726, and educated at Edinburgh, where he gradu

ated doctor of medicine 16th September, 1761 (D.M.I. de Arteriotomiâ). He was admitted a fellow of the College of Physicians of Edinburgh 1st November, 1763; and about that time settled at Derby, where he practised for several years, and acquired and acquired a moderate fortune. He removed to London in 1782; was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 26th June, 1786; and died at his house in Lower Grosvenorstreet, 23rd March, 1805. We have from his

pen-

A method of Cure for the Stone, chiefly by Injections; with Descriptions and Delineations of the Instruments contrived for those purposes. 12mo. Edinb. 1754.

Dissertatio de Frigore quatenus Morborum Causâ. 8vo. Edinb.

1757.

A Treatise on the Kink Cough, with an Account of Hemlock and its Preparations. 8vo. Lond. 1773.

An Account of Puerperal Fevers as they appear in Derbyshire. 8vo. Lond. 1775.

A Treatise on the Infantile Remittent Fever. 8vo. Lond. 1782. An Improved Method of Opening the Temporal Artery, and a New Proposal for Extracting the Cataract. 8vo. Lond. 1783. A Treatise on the Disease commonly called Angina Pectoris. 8vo. Lond. 1791. A Treatise on the Venereal Rose. 8vo. Lond. 1799.

THEODORE FORBES LEITH, M.D., was the second son of John Forbes, esq. (who assumed as heir to his mother the additional surname of Leith), by his wife Jean, eldest daughter of Theodore Morrison of Bogny, and was born in the county of Aberdeen. He graduated doctor of medicine at Edinburgh 12th September, 1768 (D.M.I. de Delirio Febrili); and was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 26th June, 1786. He was a fellow of the Royal Society, and is represented as a person of extensive scientific attainments. After practising for many years at Greenwich he retired to Scotland. He succeeded on the death of his elder brother in 1806, to the family estate of Whitehaugh, in his native county, where he died 6th September, 1819, in the seventy-fourth year of his age, from lockjaw, consequent on fracture of the collar-bone. He had