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1. Medicine in philately: Rene T. H. Laënnec, the father of stethoscope.

Author

Vatanoğlu-Lutz, E. Elif and Ataman, Ahmet Doğan

Subjects
PHYSICIANS, STETHOSCOPES, LIFE
Abstract

The article offers information on French physician Rene T. H. Laënnec who invented the first stethoscope in 1816. Topics discussed include the early life of Laënnec, who was born in Quimper, Brittany in France in 1781, the discovery of the stethoscope when he was scheduled to examine a woman, laboring under general symptoms of a diseased heart, and his personal life.

Published
2016
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