John Forbes (physician)

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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.