The History of the Stethoscope

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Two hundred years ago, a French doctor’s squeamishness about putting his ear to the chest of a plump young female patient to listen to her heart led to a revolution in our ancestors’ understanding of the human body. Dr. Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laënnec (1781–1826) invented the stethoscope, today as iconic a symbol of the medical View Website VIP Subscription

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