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Sir John Forbes. Mezzotint by W. Walker, 1857, after J. Partridge.

Sir John Forbes. Wood engraving, 1861.

The life of Sir John Forbes (1787-1861) / by Robin A.L. Agnew.

The life of Sir John Forbes (1787-1861) : royal physician, medical journalist, and translator of Laënnec : a Victorian polymath / by Robin A.L. Agnew.

Memoir of Sir John Forbes ... / [Edmund Alexander Parkes].

A treatise on the diseases of the chest, in which they are described according to their anatomical characters, and their diagnosis established on a new principle by means of acoustick instruments. ... / R.T.H. Laennec ; translated from the French ... with a preface and notes by John Forbes.

A treatise on the diseases of the chest and on mediate auscultation / by R.T.H. Laennec. Translated from the latest French edition / with notes and a sketch of the author's life / by John Forbes.

A treatise on the diseases of the chest, and on mediate auscultation / by R.T.H. Laennec ... ; translated from the third French edition, with copious notes, a sketch of the author's life, and an extensive bibliography of the different diseases, by John Forbes ... ; to which are added the notes of Professor Andral, contained in the fourth and latest French edition, translated and accompanied with observations on cerebral auscultation, by John D. Fisher ... ; with plates.

A treatise on the diseases of the chest and on mediate auscultation / by R.T.H. Laennec ... ; translated from the French with notes and a sketch of the author's life, by John Forbes.

A treatise on the diseases of the chest and on mediate auscultation / by R.T.H Laennec ... ; translated from the latest French edition, with notes and a sketch of the author's life, by John Forbes ... ; with plates ; from the third revised London edition, with additional notes.

Bulwer and Forbes on the water-treatment : a compilation of papers on the subject of hygiene and rational hydropathy; edited with additional matters.

Observations on the climate of Penzance and the district of the Land's End in Cornwall / by John Forbes.

Letter to John Forbes ... on his article entitled 'Homœopathy, allopathy, and young physic' contained in the number [XLI] of the [British and Foreign Medical] Review for January, 1846 / by William Henderson.

A treatise on the diseases of the chest and on mediate auscultation / by R.T.H. Laennec ... ; translated from the latest French edition, with copious notes and a sketch of the author's life, by John Forbes ... ; from the fourth London edition, considerably enlarged and improved, with many additional notes and an extensive bibliography of the different diseases ; with plates.

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A treatise on the diseases of the chest and on mediate auscultation / by R.T.H Laennec ... ; translated from the latest French edition, with notes and a sketch of the author's life, by John Forbes ... ; with plates ; from the third revised London edition, with additional notes.

Bulwer and Forbes on the water-treatment : a compilation of papers on the subject of hygiene and rational hydropathy; edited with additional matters.

Observations on the climate of Penzance and the district of the Land's End in Cornwall / by John Forbes.

Letter to John Forbes ... on his article entitled 'Homœopathy, allopathy, and young physic' contained in the number [XLI] of the [British and Foreign Medical] Review for January, 1846 / by William Henderson.

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John Forbes

Images from the collections

Images by John Forbes

Images featuring John Forbes

Works from the collections

A treatise on the diseases of the chest and on mediate auscultation / by R.T.H Laennec ... ; translated from the latest French edition, with notes and a sketch of the author's life, by John Forbes ... ; with plates ; from the third revised London edition, with additional notes.

Bulwer and Forbes on the water-treatment : a compilation of papers on the subject of hygiene and rational hydropathy; edited with additional matters.

Observations on the climate of Penzance and the district of the Land's End in Cornwall / by John Forbes.

Letter to John Forbes ... on his article entitled 'Homœopathy, allopathy, and young physic' contained in the number [XLI] of the [British and Foreign Medical] Review for January, 1846 / by William Henderson.

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