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Abstract:
Following his discharge from the Royal Navy at the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1816, Dr John Forbes (1787-1861) studied at the University of Edinburgh and gained his MD degree in the following year. He moved to Cornwall in September 1817 and started using a primitive stethoscope. In 1821 he translated Laennec's classical De L'Auscultation Mediate (1819) into English.As physician to Penzance Public Dispensary, his clinical experience in the local population is meticulously recorded in a large series of case notes of patients seen by him between 10 April and 4 December 1821. The casebooks are now in the care of Aberdeen University Library.
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