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Sir John Forbes. Lithograph by T. H. Maguire, 1848.

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.

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.

On the diagnosis of diseases of the chest : [excerpt] / René Laennec.

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Forbes, John, Sir, 1787-1861

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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.

On the diagnosis of diseases of the chest : [excerpt] / René Laennec.