Rene-Theophile-Hyacinthe Laennec, French physician
Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec (1781-1826), French physician, inventor of the stethoscope in 1816 at the Hopital Necker in Paris, where he was working at the time. Seen here using a stethoscope on a patient
Picture No
10005916
Media ID
47150888
Size
2921px x 4121px
(2.2MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Chartran, engraving by Ruffe, in Harper's Magazine, June 1899 page 39
Date
1816
