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Fordyce, Sir William

Fordyce, Sir William
Signature of Sir William Fordyce
Biography
Physician. Born Aberdeen 1724. Son of George Fordyce, provost of Aberdeen. Educated Marischal Coll., served a pupillage with a local practitioner, and with his brother John at Uppingham 1743. Admitted member of the Royal Medical Society, Edinburgh, 1744. Volunteered for the army, obtained appointment as surgeon to the guards. At Turin 1750, returned to London 1750. Set up practice in London. M.D. Cambridge 1770 by royal mandate. Admitted licentiate of the College of Physicians 1786. Fellow of the Royal Society 1787. Knighted 1787. Published A New Inquiry into the Causes, Symptoms, and Cure of Putrid and Inflammatory Fevers 1773. Lord Rector of Marischal Coll. 1790-2. Died London 1792/4 after a long illness. Left his medical library to Marischal Coll. and founded the lectureship on agriculture.
Biography Date
1724-1792/4
Biography References
LOC; CERL; DNB; Fasti 17, 18, 73, 313; Drummond 298; Wightman xviii

Book List

24 Items Ordered by Owner, A to Z

Owner (other form of name) Book Title Author Publication Place Date
Fordyce, Sir William De haemorrhoidibus. Hippocrates. Basel 1540
Fordyce, Sir William Insectorum sive minimorum animalium theatrum. Moufet, T. London 1634
Fordyce, Sir William Matthaei Curtii de curandis febribus ars medica Curtius, Matthaeus Venice 1561
Fordyce, Sir William Petri Andreae Matthioli commentarij in sex libros Pedacij Dioscoridis de medica materia Mattioli, Pietro Andrea,1500-1577 Venice 1569
Fordyce, Sir William Schola Apiciana, ex optimis quibusdam authoribus constructa Syngrapheus, Polyonimus Frankfurt am Main 1534
Fordyce, Sir Wm. Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de catarrho. Fordyce, G. Edinburgh 1758
Fordyce, Sir Wm. Andreae Vesalii Bruxellensis, invictissimi Caroli V. Imp. Medici, de humani corporis fabrica libri septem. Vesalius, A. Venice 1568
Fordyce, Sir Wm. Examen de ingenios para las sciencas. Huarte, J. Bilbao 1580
Fordyce, Sir Wm. Aloisii Trissini problematu medicinalium, ex Galeni sententia, libri sex. Trissinus, A. Basel 1546-7
Fordyce, Sir Wm. Ioannes Zecchii liber primus consultationum medicinalium. Zecchius, J. Rome 1599
Fordyce, Sir Wm. Dictata in aphorismos Boerhaave, H. 1734
Fordyce, Sir Wm. Historia febris anomalae Batavae annorum 1746, 1747, 1748 &c. Grainger, J. Edinburgh 1753
Fordyce, Sir Wm. Catalogus plantarum circa Cantabrigiam nascentium in quo exhibentur quotquot hactenus inventae sunt una cum anonymis selectioribus. Ray, John. Cambridge 1660
Fordyce, Sir Wm. Medicina Salernitana. Schola Salernitana Geneva 1599
Fordyce, Sir Wm. Remberti Dodonaei medicinalium observationum exempla rara, recognita & aucta. Dodoens, R. Cologne 1581
Fordyce, William De plantis libri XVI. Caesalpinus, A. Florence 1583
Fordyce, William De decamerone nouamente corretto, historiato & con diligenza stampato. Boccaccio, G. Venice 1545
Fordyce, William, Sir. In hoc volumine haec continentur. Aurelii Cornelli Celsii medicinae libri. VIII. Quam emendatissimi, graecis etiam omnibus dictionibus restitutis. Quinti Sereni... Celsus, A.C. Venice 1528
Fordyce, William, Sir. Compendium medicine Gilberti Anglici tam morborum universalium quam particularium nondum medicis sed & cyurgicis utilissimum. Gilbertus, Anglicus. Lyon 1510
Fordyce, Wm. Scholia copiosa in therapeuticam methodum, id est, absolutissimam Claudij Galeni curandi artem. Agricola, J. Augsburg 1534
Fordyce, Wm. Laurentii Iouberti medicinae practicae priores libri tres. Joubert, L. Lyon 1577
Fordyce, Wm. Henrici Rantzouii de conseruanda valetudine liber... Editus a Dethleuo Siluio... Ranzovius, H. Frankfurt 1591
Fordyce, Wm. Cl. Galeni ... Omnia ... Opera, in Latinam linguam conversa ... Emendata, & ... Restituta. Accesserunt ... Argumenta ... Per... Galen. Lyon 1550
Fordyce, Wm. Pauli Aeginetae medici optimi, libri septem. Paulus, Aegineta. Basel 1538