Picture No | 10005916 |
Date | 1816 |
Description | Rene-Theophile-Hyacinthe Laennec, French physician |
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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.
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Source | Chartran, engraving by Ruffe, in Harper's Magazine, June 1899 page 39 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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