Memoir of sir john forbes...reprinted, by permission, from the january number, 1862, of the British & Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review. (For private circulation).
London.
Printed by Savill & Edwards, 1862.
First edition.
8vo.
70pp, [2]. With a half-title and a albumen portrait frontispiece. Original publisher's blind-stamp brown cloth, lettered in gilt to upper board. A trifle rubbed and marked. Very occasional marginal chipping, scattered spotting.
The first edition of a short memoir of decorated Scottish physician Sir John Forbes (1787-1861), naval surgeon, writer, and for two decades physician to Queen Victoria, often attributed to English military physician Edmund Alexander Parkes (1819 -1876).
Forbes, who was fluent in French, notably translated into English the first essential treatise on stethoscopy, De L’Auscultation Médiate (1819), which had been published by the inventor of the instrument, René Laënnec (1781-1826), two years prior. Despite great success as a consultant in Chichester and London, Forbes generated controversy for his belief in the medical value of homeopathy; notably, he was consulted by celebrated novelist Charlotte Brontë, with whom he exchanged literature, for advice on her sister Anne's pulmonary tuberculosis.
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Forbes, who was fluent in French, notably translated into English the first essential treatise on stethoscopy, De L’Auscultation Médiate (1819), which had been published by the inventor of the instrument, René Laënnec (1781-1826), two years prior. Despite great success as a consultant in Chichester and London, Forbes generated controversy for his belief in the medical value of homeopathy; notably, he was consulted by celebrated novelist Charlotte Brontë, with whom he exchanged literature, for advice on her sister Anne's pulmonary tuberculosis.
