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Forbes J . Letter to the Editor. Lancet 1844; ii: 581–6

Forbes J . British and Foreign Medical Review 1845; 19: 484–5

Bishop PJ . The life and writings of Sir John Forbes (1787–1861). Tubercle 1961; 42: 258–9

Ibid.: 260

Sakula A . Sir John Forbes (1787–1861). A bicentenary review. J R Coll Physicians Lond 1987; 21: 80

Winskill PT . Teetotalism in Scotland. In: The Comprehensive History of the Rise and Progress of the Temperance Reformation from the Earliest Period to September, 1881. Warrington: Winskill, 1881: 162–3

Anonymous. British and Foreign Medical Review 1847; 48: 515–48

Carpenter GTB . William Benjamin (1813–1885). In: Stephen L Lee S , Eds. Dictionary of National Biography. London: Oxford University Press for Spottiswoode & Co., 1967–8: vol. 3, pp. 1075–7

Forbes J . Memorandums Made in Ireland in the Autumn of 1852. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1853: vol. I, p. 92

Agnew RAL . Forbes in Hibernia: the narrative of a Scottish physician's visit to Ireland in 1852. J Irish Coll Phys Surg 1992; 21: 40–4

Craig J . A general dispensary practice 150 years ago. Aberdeen University Review 1972; 44: 361–2

Forbes J . Homeopathy, allopathy and “young physic”. British and Foreign Medical Review 1846; 21: 225–65

Anonymous. Lancet 1861; ii: 512

Forbes J (op. cit. ref. 12):255

Personal communication, Mr T J McCann, Assistant County Archivist, West Sussex Record Office, County Hall, Chichester, dated 8 January 1997

Steer FW . The Chichester Literary and Philosophical Society and Mechanic's Institute, 1831–1924. The Chichester Papers, Chichester City Council, 1962: vol. 29, pp. 1–24

Agnew RAL . Fortune favours the brave — the capture of Guadeloupe 1815. J R Nav Sew 1997; 83: 94–8

Forbes J . Postscript by the Editor and proprietor. British and Foreign Medical Review 1847; 48: 585–97

Forbes J . Sketch of the medical topography of the Hundred of Penwith, comprising the district of the Landsend in Cornwall. Transactions of Provincial and Surgical Association 1834; 2: 32–147. Continued 1836; 4: 152–261

Forbes J . Observations on the Climate of Penzance and the District of Land's End in Cornwall: With an Appendix Containing Meteorological Tables, and a Catalogue of the Rarer Indigenous Plants. Penzance: T Vigurs & T & E Underwood, 1821

Bishop PJ (op. cit. ref. 3):256

Proctor ES . The health of the Cornish tin miner 1840–1914. J R Soc Med 1999; 92: 596

Sakula A . Gentlemen of the hammer: British medical geologists in the 19th century. J R Soc Med 1990; 83: 793

Steer FW (op. cit. ref. 16):1

Personal communication (op. cit. ref. 15)

Forbes J . British and Foreign Medical Review 1847; 23: 309–12

Forbes J . Provincial Medical Gazette 1830;unseen

Forbes J . A Physician's Holiday: Or a Month in Switzerland in the Summer of 1848. London: J Murray, 1849 (2nd edn 1850; 3rd edn 1852)

Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th earl of (1801–85). In: Magnusson M Goring R , Eds. Chambers Biographical Dictionary (5th edn). Edinburgh: W & R Chambers, 1990: 1332

Auenbrugger L . Inventum novum ex percussione thoracis humani, ut signo, abstrusos interni pectoris morbos detegendi. Vienna, 1861

Sakula A. (op. cit. ref. 5):80

Anonymous. Review. Lancet 1824; v: 144–60, 169–80

Anonymous. Review. Edin Med Surg J 1825; 23: 406–16

Bishop PJ (op. cit. ref. 3):258

Ibid.: 260

Anonymous. Nekrolog. Sir John Forbes, geb. 1787, gest. 13. Nov. 1861. Wien Med Wochenschr 1861; 11: 789–90

Ibid.: 790