Forbes, Sir John

Biography: Physician and medical journalist. Born Cuttlebrae, Banffshire 1787. Educated Aberdeen grammar school and Marischal Coll. 1803-05, though no record of his graduation. Diploma of College of Surgeons, Edinburgh 1806. Served in the Navy as temporary assistant surgeon, full surgeon 1809. Returned to Edinburgh 1816, M.D. Edin 1817. Moved to Cornwall Sept 1817. First honorary librarian of the Penzance Public Library 1818, secretary to the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. Translated Laennec's De l'auscultation médiate, 1821. Moved to Chichester 1822. Fellow of the Royal Society 1829. Founded the Chichester Literary and Philosophical Society 1831. Physician-in-ordinary to the Duke of Cambridge 1832. Moved to Westminster 1840. Court physician to Prince Albert and the royal household 1841. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians 1844. Honorary fellowship of the Imperial Society of Physicians in Vienna 1845. Retired from medical practice 1848. Treated Anne Bronte 1849. Promoted the establishment of Great Ormond St Hospital 1852. Honorary D.C.L, Oxford 1852. Knighted 1853. Moved to Oxfordshire 1859. Died Whitchurch, Oxfordhire 1861. Editor of med. Journals and author of many works. Donated his library of 3830 volumes to Marischal Coll., 1859.

Biography Date: 1787-1861

Biography References: Prov. Reg. Notes (Comrie, p770); CERL; DNB; Drummond 298; Wightman xviii.

Book List

Owner (other form of name)	Book Title	Author	Publication Place	Date
Forbes, Sir John	The anatomical exercise of Dr William Harvey professor of physick, and Physician to the Kings Majesty, concerning the motion of...	Harvey, W.	London	1653
Forbes, Sir John	Dissertatio medica inauguralis de febre remittente putrida paludum quae grassabatur in Bengalia, A.D. 1762.	Lind, J.	Edinburgh	1768
Forbes, Sir John	Les oeuvres d'Ambroise Par	Pare, Ambroise, 1510?-1590	Paris	1579
Forbes, Sir John	Arnaldi Villanouani praxis medicinalis	Arnaldus, de Villa Nova	Lyon	1586
Forbes, Sir John	Disputationum de medicina noua Philippi Paracelsi pars prima : in qua, quae de remediis superstitiosis & magicis curationibus ille prodidit,...	Erastus, Thomas,1524-1583	Basel	1572
Forbes, Sir John	Thomae Erasti disputationum & epistolarum medicinalium volumen doctissimum	Erastus, Thomas,1524-1583	Zurich	1595
Forbes, Sir John	Hieronymi Fracastorii opera omnia, i vnum collecta	Fracastoro, Girolamo,1478-1553	Venice	1555
Forbes, Sir John	(Collections Latin 1564)	Hippocrates	Lyon	1564
Forbes, Sir John	Dominici Leoni ars medendi humanos, particularesque morbos a vertice vsque ad pedes	Leonus, Dominicus	Bologna	1583
Forbes, Sir John	Medicina vniuersa	Monte, Giovanni Battista da,1498-1551	Frankfurt am Main	1587
Forbes, Sir John	Apologia commentarii olim aediti de parca evacuatione in grauium morborum principiis, a materia multa, & mala, non furiosa pendentium, facienda,...	Panizza, Ludovicus	Mantua	1556
Forbes, Sir John	Ludovici Panizzae de minoratione facienda opusculum	Panizza, Ludovicus	Mantua	1556?
Forbes, Sir John	De venae sectione in inflammationibus quibuscunque fluxione genitis, per sanguinis missionen curandis disputatio ac decisio	Panizza, Ludovicus	Venice	1544
Forbes, Sir John	Alexandri T. Petronii de victu Romanoum et de sanitate tuenda libri quinque	Petronius, Alexander T	Rome	1581-82
Forbes, Sir John	Balnearium restauratum in quo curantur morbi per balneas naturales, artificiales, insessus, lixiuia, Sudationes : itemque per scarificationes ac phlebotomias	Ruland, Martin	Basel	1579
Forbes, Sir John	Quinti Sereni Sammonici de re medica siue morborum curationibus liber	Serenus Sammonicus, Quintus	Zurich	1540