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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.

The French physician is celebrated in a Google Doodle marking what would have been his 235th birthday. René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laennec was born on February 17, 1781, in Quimper, France.

L'HISTOIRE DE LA MÉDECINE (5/18) - Inventé en février 1816, le stéthoscope est l'œuvre d'un génial médecin breton, René Laennec. Cet outil qui révolutionna les méthodes d'auscultation ...