title: Heart failure in Penzance--a cornish enigma.
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.
authors: rivendelm@yahoo.co.uk
authors: Robin
authors: R
authors: Agnew
mesh_terms: D006333:Heart Failure / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D010820:Physicians / Q000266:history*; D019023:Stethoscopes; D006113:United Kingdom