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One of Dr. René Laennec's original stethoscopes, perhaps one of the many he built circa 1816-1825. The 3-piece wood and brass instrument measures 24.3 cm in length by 3.9 cm diameter." ...

This led to the creation of the first stethoscope, a wooden tube about a foot long, which Laennec called the “stethoscope”—from the Greek words “stethos” (chest) and “skopein” (to look or see). Early ...

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The origins of the stethoscope take us all the way back to France in the 1860s. To avoid putting his ear on a female patient’s chest in order to hear her heartbeat, a French doctor named Rene Laennec ...

This work discusses the evolution of the stethoscope which means "chest-seeing device". The first stethoscope was created by R.T.H. Laennec in 1816. Laennec's monoaural, paper-roll stethoscope was ...

Display of stethoscopes created by Rene Laennec. They were acquired and put on display in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, but are not held by Wellcome Collection.

The first iteration was a hollow wooden cylinder measuring about 25 cm long by 3 cm in diameter, which Laennec later altered to consist of three detachable parts. He called his creation the ...

The stethoscope is an audible medical device used for diagnosis or listening to an animal or human body’s inner sounds. The first Stethoscope was created in France in 1816 by Rene Laennec. It is ...