Background
Fothergill, son of a surgeon, was born at Morland, Westmorland, on 11 April 1841, studied at the University of Edinburgh, and there graduated Doctor of Medicine
Fothergill, son of a surgeon, was born at Morland, Westmorland, on 11 April 1841, studied at the University of Edinburgh, and there graduated Doctor of Medicine
1865. He afterwards studied at Vienna and Berlin and began professional work as a general practitioner at Morland.
11 April 1841 – 28 June 1888), was a British physician and medical writer He obtained appointments at two small hospitals, the City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest and the West London Hospital. But when asked some years later how he throve, replied, "The private patient seems to me to be an extinct animal." He was a man of enormous weight, with a large head and very thick neck, and so continued till he died of diabetes, from which and from gout he had long suffered.
He resided in Henrietta Street, Cavendish Square, London, and there died on 28 June 1888.
Soon after moved to Leeds, and in 1872 came to London, where he was admitted as a member of the Royal College of Physicians and endeavoured to get into practice as a physician.