Fordyce, Sir William
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
| Owner (other form of name) |
Book Title |
Author |
Publication Place |
Date |
| Fordyce, Sir Wm. |
Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de catarrho. |
Fordyce, G. |
Edinburgh |
1758 |
| Fordyce, Sir Wm. |
Historia febris anomalae Batavae annorum 1746, 1747, 1748 &c. |
Grainger, J. |
Edinburgh |
1753 |
| Fordyce, Sir Wm. |
Dictata in aphorismos |
Boerhaave, H. |
|
1734 |
| 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 William |
Insectorum sive minimorum animalium theatrum. |
Moufet, T. |
London |
1634 |
| Fordyce, Sir Wm. |
Ioannes Zecchii liber primus consultationum medicinalium. |
Zecchius, J. |
Rome |
1599 |
| Fordyce, Sir Wm. |
Medicina Salernitana. |
Schola Salernitana |
Geneva |
1599 |
| Fordyce, Wm. |
Henrici Rantzouii de conseruanda valetudine liber... Editus a Dethleuo Siluio... |
Ranzovius, H. |
Frankfurt |
1591 |
| Fordyce, William |
De plantis libri XVI. |
Caesalpinus, A. |
Florence |
1583 |
| Fordyce, Sir Wm. |
Remberti Dodonaei medicinalium observationum exempla rara, recognita & aucta. |
Dodoens, R. |
Cologne |
1581 |
| Fordyce, Sir Wm. |
Examen de ingenios para las sciencas. |
Huarte, J. |
Bilbao |
1580 |
| Fordyce, Wm. |
Laurentii Iouberti medicinae practicae priores libri tres. |
Joubert, L. |
Lyon |
1577 |
| Fordyce, Sir William |
Petri Andreae Matthioli commentarij in sex libros Pedacij Dioscoridis de medica materia |
Mattioli, Pietro Andrea,1500-1577 |
Venice |
1569 |
| Fordyce, Sir Wm. |
Andreae Vesalii Bruxellensis, invictissimi Caroli V. Imp. Medici, de humani corporis fabrica libri septem. |
Vesalius, A. |
Venice |
1568 |
| Fordyce, Sir William |
Matthaei Curtii de curandis febribus ars medica |
Curtius, Matthaeus |
Venice |
1561 |
| Fordyce, Wm. |
Cl. Galeni ... Omnia ... Opera, in Latinam linguam conversa ... Emendata, & ... Restituta. Accesserunt ... Argumenta ... Per... |
Galen. |
Lyon |
1550 |
| Fordyce, Sir Wm. |
Aloisii Trissini problematu medicinalium, ex Galeni sententia, libri sex. |
Trissinus, A. |
Basel |
1546-7 |
| Fordyce, William |
De decamerone nouamente corretto, historiato & con diligenza stampato. |
Boccaccio, G. |
Venice |
1545 |
| Fordyce, Sir William |
De haemorrhoidibus. |
Hippocrates. |
Basel |
1540 |
| Fordyce, Wm. |
Pauli Aeginetae medici optimi, libri septem. |
Paulus, Aegineta. |
Basel |
1538 |
| Fordyce, Wm. |
Scholia copiosa in therapeuticam methodum, id est, absolutissimam Claudij Galeni curandi artem. |
Agricola, J. |
Augsburg |
1534 |
| Fordyce, Sir William |
Schola Apiciana, ex optimis quibusdam authoribus constructa |
Syngrapheus, Polyonimus |
Frankfurt am Main |
1534 |
| 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 |
