Frederick Corbyn

Frederick Corbyn (11 May 1791 – 7 October 1853) was an English surgeon who worked in Calcutta and was the founder of one of the first scientific journals published from India The India Review of Works on Science, and Journal of Foreign Sciences and the Arts; embracing Mineralogy, Geology, Natural History, Physics &c. (1836-1842).

Corbyn joined the Bengal Army in 1813 and served with the 25th native infantry in Nepal.

[1] In 1828 he wrote on the Management and Diseases of Infants under the Influence of the Climate of India (the oldest pediatric publication in India)[2] and in 1832 he published a Treatise on the Epidemic Cholera.

[3] Corbyn made notes on medical history in the journal and noted that at the end of the 18th century Regimental surgeons in India were allowed to make purchases and contracts through which they made large fortunes.

[4] Corbyn also founded the India Review and Journal of Foreign Science and the Arts in 1836 which he renamed to Review of Works on Science and Journal of Foreign Science and the Arts Embracing Mineralogy, Geology, Natural History, Physics which reviewed scientific advances.