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 |
