The education of the will is the object of our existence.

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A Short Biography of George Fordyce

Author Name:

George Fordyce

Born As:

George Fordyce

Other Names:

Born:

18 Nov 1736

Died:

25 May 1802




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Physician and chemist                          
Selected Works:

Elements of Agriculture and Vegetation - 1781. This was a collection of a course of lectures assembled by one of his listeners Fordyce corrected the copy, and afterwards published it under this title
Elements of the practice of Physic - 1768-1770. This was used by him as a textbook for a part of his course of lectures on that subject
A Treatise on the Digestion of Food -  1791. It was originally read before the College of Physicians, as the Guelstonian Lecture

Four Dissertations on Fever - 1794-1803 A fifth, which completed the subject, was left by him in manuscript form, and posthumously published

Papers:

Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society:

Of the Light produced by Inflammation
Examination of various Ores in the Museum of Dr W Hunter
A New Method of assaying Copper Ores
An Account of some Experiments on the Loss of Weight in Bodies on being melted or heated
An Account of an Experiment on Heat
The Cronian Lecture on Muscular Motion
On the Cause of the additional Weight which Metals acquire on being calcined
Account of a New Pendulum, being the Bakerian Lecture
Published in the Medical and Chirurgical Transactions:
Observations on the Small-pox, and Causes of Fever
An Attempt to improve the Evidence of Medicine
Some Observations upon the composition of Medicines                          
                          
Elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1776.