In 1816, a young French physician named Rene Laennec rolled up a stack of papers and invented one of the most important instruments for modern medicine: the stethoscope. Join Anna Dhody to learn about this fascinating chapter in medical history!

Written by Patrick Kelly
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Video by Jonah Stern

Bibliography
Leopold Auennbrugger’s 1761 treatise on percussion in Latin
https://archive.org/details/leopoldia...
English Translation of Laennec's De L’Auscultation Médiate (1821)
https://archive.org/details/treatiseo...
Reception of the stethoscope and Laennec’s book (1981)
https://thorax.bmj.com/content/thorax...
Auenbrugger, Corvisart, and the Perception of Disease (1998)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/30053888...
Tapping on the chest of history (2018)
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/15a8...

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