title: Bicentenary of Sir John Forbes (1787-1861).
abstract: This year is the bicentenary of the birth of the distinguished Scottish physician, Sir John Forbes, famous for his translation of the great French medical classic, De L'Auscultation Médiate by R.T.H. Laennec, the inventor of the stethoscope.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of History of Medicine, Society of Apothecaries of London.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sakula
mesh_terms: D001314:Auscultation / Q000266:history / Q000295:instrumentation; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D007388:Internal Medicine / Q000266:history; D012606:Scotland; D013896:Thoracic Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000266:history; D014177:Translations