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Not who you're looking for? Others named John Forbes: British Member of Parliament (died 1734) · Scottish minister and translator · British Member of Parliament (1801-1840) · Scottish Presbyterian minister (1800-1874), served in St Pau
Sir John Forbes FRCP FRS (17 December 1787 – 13 November 1861) was a distinguished Scottish physician, famous for his translation of the classic French medical text De L'Auscultation Mediate by René Laennec, the inventor of the stethoscope. He was physician to Queen Victoria 184161.
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