Memoir of Sir John Forbes, Kt., M.D., D.C.L., F.R.S., etc. (For private circulation).

Reprinted, by permission, from the January number, 1862, of the British and foreign medico-chirurgical review.

Parkes, Edmund Alexander, 1819-1876.

London : Savill & Edwards, 1862.

Description : bt, frontis., tp, [v]-vi, [7]-70 p. ; ill.: 1 phot. ; 22 cm.

Photograph : mounted portrait.

Photographer : Maull & Polyblank.

Subject : Medical biography — Sir John Forbes (1787-1861).

Notes :

• Author caption: na ("Dr. Parkes most kindly undertook to write the best article he could..etc.").
• Member, college of surgeons, 1840.
• Assistant surgeon, 84th regiment, 1842-1845.
• Medical degree, University College London, 1846.
• Special Professor, clinical medicine, University College, 1849.
• Cofounder, first chair of hygiene, Army Medical School, Chatham, 1860.
• Foundational author of works on the science of modern and military hygiene.
• GM-1614: A manual of practical hygiene. London, John Churchill, 1864.
• Index Medicus: 21206131170.