John Forbes (physician)

John Forbes, drawing by John Partridge

Sir John Forbes FRCP FRS (17 December 1787 – 13 November 1861) was a Scottish physician, famous for his translation of the classic French medical text De L'Auscultation Mediate[1] by René Laennec, the inventor of the stethoscope. He was physician to Queen Victoria 1841–61.

  1. ^ William Alexander Greenhill (1885–1900). "Forbes, John (1787-1861)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co.