Fordyce married Samuel Bentham (Jeremy Bentham's brother). He died in London in 1802, of disorders connected with gout, and was buried at St Anne's, Soho. Bibliography Books Elements of Agriculture and Vegetation (London, 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 (London, 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 (London, 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. Boston 1823 edition. 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. References Further reading 1736 births 1802 deaths Fellows of the Royal Society People from Aberdeen Scottish chemists 18th-century Scottish medical doctors Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians Alumni of the University of Aberdeen Scottish scholars and academics Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Leiden University alumni