Portrait of George Fordyce (1736-1802) Finish:Rolled 28th June 1982

28th June 1982

1st February 1969

A chickweed poultice can be used to treat skin conditions

Priory at Hadley

distiller and undertaker are the only well-off and successful people in the neighbourhood

Portrait of George Fordyce (1736-1802) Finish:Rolled 28th June 1982Half length portrait of Fordyce wearing a fur trimmed robe and holding in his left hand a volume 'Treatise on Fever'. Trimmed, original inscription on a separate paper slip: 'GEORGE FORDYCE. M: D. F: R: S. Senior Physician of St. Thomas's Hospital.' Inscribed in pencil lower left '1776': George Fordyce was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1776. Original: mezzotint. 1795