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Forbes, Sir John
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Physician, born at Cuttlebrae, Banffshire; entered the navy as assistant-surgeon in 1807, and became M.D. of Edinburgh ten years later; practised at Penzance and Chichester, but finally settled at London in 1840, where he became physician to the Queen; was for twelve years editor of the British and Foreign Medical Review , which he founded in 1836, and was joint-author of the "Cyclopædia of Practical Medicine"; first to use the stethoscope in England (1787-1861).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Forbes, Sir John'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/f/forbes-sir-john.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Forbes, Sir John'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/f/forbes-sir-john.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
