John Forbes/Bibliography

Agnew RAL (1994). John Forbes (1787-1861), in memoriam: from Cuttlebrae to Whitchurch. Journal of Medical Biography 2:187-192 Agnew RAL (2005). John Forbes FRS (1787-1861). The James Lind Library (www.jameslindlibrary.org). Agnew RAL (1998). “All that glisters is not gold”. Sir John Forbes (1787-1861): a West Indian enigma. Journal of Medical Biography 6:63-67. Agnew RAL (2001). Sir John Forbes (1787-1861) and Miss Florence Nightingale (1820-1910): an unlikely association. Vesalius VII:36-44. Agnew RAL (2001). Catalogue of the library of Sir John Forbes (1787-1861). Part I: Some general works. Journal of Medical Biography 9:104-108. Agnew RAL (2001). Catalogue of the library of Sir John Forbes (1787-1861). Part II: Anon (1824). Lancet 5:180. Anon (1825). Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Review 23:416. Anon (1861). Lancet 2:512. Barclay AW (1864). Fallacies connected with the application of the inductive method of reasoning to the science of medicine. London: John Churchill & Sons. pp 3-4. Brockliss L, Cardwell J, Moss M (2005). Nelson’s Surgeon. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Commission Royale (1784). Rapport des commissaires chargés par le Roi, de l'examen du magnétisme animal. Imprimé par ordre du Roi. A Paris, de L'Imprimerie Royale. Couling S (1862). History of the Temperance Movement in Great Britain and Ireland; from the earliest date to the present time. With biographical notices of departed temperance worthies including Sir John Forbes. London: William Tweedie, pp 296-97. Egan J (2005a). A stranger who understood.The Irish Genealogist II:300-2. Egan J (2005b). John O’Neill.The Irish Genealogist II:288. Forbes J (1821). A treatise on diseases of the chest in which they are described according to their anatomical characters, and there diagnosis established on a new principle by means of acoustic instruments. London: T & G Underwood. Forbes J (1824). Original Cases with dissections and observations illustrating the use of the stethoscope and percussion in the diagnosis of diseases of the chest. London: T & G Underwood. Forbes J (1835). A manual of select medical bibliography. London: Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper. Forbes J (1845). Notes on trial of clairvoyance and mesmerism. Athenaeum Journal of English and Foreign Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts. No.933:900-1. Forbes J (1846). Ueber Sonnambulissmus, Hellsehen und thierschen Magnetismus, bearbeitet von A. Hummel, Wien [cited in Bishop PJ (1961). Tubercle, Lond. 42:260]. Forbes J (1846). Homoeopathy, allopathy and “young physic”. British and Foreign Medical Review, 225-265. Forbes J (1853). Memorandums made in Ireland in the Autumn of 1852. London: Smith, Elder & Co. Forbes J (1857). Of nature and art in the cure of disease. London: John Churchill. Forbes J, Conolly J, Tweedie A (1832-35). Cyclopaedia of practical medicine. London: Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper. Foster RF (1988). Modern Ireland 1600-1972. London: Allen Penguin Press. Laënnec RTH (1819). De L'Auscultation Médiate; ou, Traité du diagnostic des maladies des poumons et du coeur, fondé sur ce moyen d’exploration. 2 vols., Paris: Brosson et Chaudé. Mesmer FA (1781). Précis historique des faits relatifs au magnétisme animal jusques en avril 1781. Par M. Mesmer, Docteur en Médecine de la Faculté de Vienne. Ouvrage traduit de l'Allemand. A Londres [false imprint, probably Paris] O’Neill J (1870). St. Crispin. Bound volumes in Royal Literary Fund archives, 1790-1918. Vol. III, p 56. Parkes EA (1862). Memoir of Sir John Forbes, Kt. Reprinted by permission, from the January Number, 1862, of the British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review (For Private Circulation). By EA Parkes, with preface by Alexander C Forbes. London: Savill and Edwards. Smith E (1858). The principles of treatment of chronic phthisis pulmonalis. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts.