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Letter to Dr Wm Munk, Treasurer of the College, from Dr John Forbes, dated 4 May 1860. Archives of the Royal College of Physicians, London, Gen Coll ALs. Quoted by kind permission of the Librarian

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Cook H. From the Scientific Revolution to the germ theory. In: Loudon I , Ed. Western Medicine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997: 92

Sakula A (op cit. ref. 2):78–9

Lloyd C Coulter JLS . The Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, 1793–1815. In: Medicine and the Navy: 1200–1900, Volume 3, 1714–1815. Edinburgh: E & S Livingstone, 1961: 176

Pool PAS . The old borough, 1714–1835. In: The History of the Town and Borough of Penzance. Penzance: Corporation of Penzance, 1961: 120

Ibid. Appendix. Transcripts or abstracts of documents: the Mayor's diary, extracts from the diary of Henry Boase, Mayor of Penzance 1816–17: 274

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Keevil JJ . Leonard Gillespie, M.D., 1758–1842. Bull Hist Med. 1954; 28: 301

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Ibid.: ch. 19, Fever: 344

Steer FW . The Royal West Sussex Hospital. The First Hundred Years 1784–1884. The Chichester Papers, Chichester City Council, 1960: vol. 15, p. 17

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

Watt J. The medical bequest of disaster at sea: Commodore Anson's circumnavigation 1740–44. J R Nav Med Serv 1999; 85: 38

Anonymous. Royle John Forbes (1799–1858). In: Stephen L Lee S , Eds. Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1908: vol. 7, p. 375

Morton RHR . Infectious diseases. In: Classic Descriptions of Diseases, with Biographical Sketches of the Authors. Springfield, IL: Charles C Thomas, 1932: 58–9

Ibid., Diseases of the circulatory system: 415–16

McCarthy OR . Getting a feel for percussion. Vesalius 1999; 5: 5

Forbes J. Original Cases with Dissections and Observations Illustrating the Use of the Stethoscope and Percussion in the Diagnosis of Diseases of the Chest; also commentaries on the same subjects translated from Avenbrugger, Corvisart, Laennec and others. London: T & G Underwood, 1824

Personal communication, Bernadette Molitor, service d'histoire de la médicine, Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire de Médicine, Paris