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René Laënnec
(17 Feb 1781 - 13 Aug 1826)
French physician who invented the stethoscope and is regarded as the father of chest medicine.
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Quotes by others about René Laënnec (1)
Laennec—this Herschel of the human thorax.
Inaugural address in Zurich (7 Nov 1840) 'Ueber den gegenwärtigen Zustand der Medizin', 402. Trans. Arleen M. Tuchman, 'From the Lecture to the Laboratory: the Institutionalization of Scientific Medicine at the University of Heidelberg', in William Coleman and Frederic L. Holmes (eds.), The Investigative Enterprise: Experimental Physiology in Nineteenth Century Medicine (1988), 90.
See also:
- 17 Feb - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Laënnec's birth.
- Laënnec and the Evolution of the Stethoscope - from British Medical Journal (1907).
- René Laënnec - Laënnec And Auscultation - from Pathfinders in Medicine (1912)
- Doctors: The Illustrated History of Medical Pioneers, by Sherwin B. Nuland. - book suggestion.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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