John Forbes (physician)
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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[1] by René Laennec, the inventor of the stethoscope. He was physician to Queen Victoria 1841–61.
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