Laennec

René Laennec invented his stethoscope in 1816, not 1819; the discoverer of X-rays, Wilhelm Roentgen, worked in Würzburg, in Bavaria, not Paris, and Joseph Lister was English, not Scottish.

Gowns, Germs and Steel William Bynum 2011

John Keats, Novalis, Chopin, Schiller, and two of the great medical explorers of tuberculosis, Gaspard Bayle and Laennec.

HEALTH AND DISEASE OWSEI TEMKIN 1968

Laennec was able to compare more effectively than before the sounds heard over the heart and the lungs under normal conditions with sounds heard when these organs were ill.

HEALTH AND DISEASE OWSEI TEMKIN 1968

The second step, made by Laennec, consisted in the introduction of the stethoscope (1819).

HEALTH AND DISEASE OWSEI TEMKIN 1968

Laennec tells the story of a convent, of which he was the medical director, where all the nuns were subjected to the severest penances and schooled in the most painful doctrines.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various

Hippocratic physicians, who used the direct method of listening and not the mediate method devised by Laennec.

The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Various

In regard to the methods of Hippocrates for the physical examination of the chest it is reasonable to suppose that the Father of Medicine indirectly inspired Laennec to invent the stethoscope.

Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine James Sands Elliott

Laplace, Laennec, and Pasteur were faithful Roman Catholics.

Universities and Religious Indifference 1932

I lived before the days of Laennec, and we carried no stethoscope, but we had our little chirurgical battery, none the less.

The Land of Mist Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926

I lived before the days of Laennec, and we carried no stethoscope, but we had our little chirurgical battery, none the less.

The Land of Mist Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926