Sir John Forbes

Sir John Forbes (1787-1861) was a Scottish physician, born at Cuttlebrae, Banffshire. He entered the navy as assistant-surgeon in 1807, and became M.D. of Edinburgh ten years later. He practised at Penzance and Chichester, but finally settled at London in 1840, where he became physician to the Queen. For twelve years he was editor of the British and Foreign Medical Review, which he founded in 1836, and was joint-author of the "Cyclopædia of Practical Medicine". He was the first to use the stethoscope in England.

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