John Forbes/Bibliography

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• Agnew RAL (1994) John Forbes (1787-1861), in memoriam: from Cuttlebrae to Whitchurch. J Med Biog 2:187-92
• Agnew RAL (2005) John Forbes FRS (1787-1861). The James Lind Library
• Agnew RAL (1998) “All that glisters is not gold”. Sir John Forbes (1787-1861): a West Indian enigma. J Med Biog 6:63-7.
• 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. J Med Biog 9:104-8.
• 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.
• Smith E (1858). The principles of treatment of chronic phthisis pulmonalis. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts.