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Forbes, James (1779–1837), military surgeon and physician  

Charles Creighton

revised by Jeffrey S. Reznick

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Forbes, James (1779–1837), military surgeon and physician, was born at Aberdeen, and received his MA at Marischal College, Aberdeen. He then studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated MD in 1803. In the same year he entered the army as assistant surgeon to the ...

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Lind, James (1716–1794)  

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23 September 2004
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James Lind (1716–1794) by John Wright (after Sir George Chalmers, 1783) Wellcome Library, London

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Lind, James (1716–1794), naval surgeon and physician  

Michael Bartholomew

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Published in print:
23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Lind, James (1716–1794), naval surgeon and physician, was born in Edinburgh on 4 October 1716, the son of James Lind, a merchant, and his wife, Margaret Smelholme (Smellum), a member of an Edinburgh medical family. (He is not to be confused with his cousin ...