Dr Laennec's importance to modern medicine was guaranteed by his invention of the very first stethoscope in 1816. Here are five things you (probably) didn't know about him: 1. Dr Laennec's ...

Laennec soon discarded the rolled up notebook and fashioned a new wooden, cylinder-shaped stethoscope. The two-eared rubber-tubing version now standard in hospitals around the world came later, in ...

Laennec named his invention the stethoscope, from the Greek words for "chest" and "to view," because it opened a new window into what was happening in the heart and lungs. After experimenting with ...

Laennec named his invention the stethoscope, from the Greek words for "chest" and "to view," because it opened a new window into what was happening in the heart and lungs. A modest experiment ...

The story has it that in 1816, René Laennec invented the stethoscope by rolling together paper in the form of a tube and putting it to the patients chest to hear heart sounds, as he felt ...

Google’s latest Doodle celebrates the work of French physician Rene Laennec, the man credited with inventing the first-ever stethoscope. Every football referee has a whistle at all times ...

Pinkerton JHM. Kergaradec, friend of Laennec and pioneer of fetal auscultation. Proc R Sec Med. 1969;62:477-483. Roguin A. Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec (1781-1826): The man behind the stethoscope.

After serving as a medical cadet in the French Revolution it was Laennec's shyness that lead him to invent the stethoscope while working at the Hôpital Necker. He then pioneered its use in ...