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Researched1816 · Industrial Age (1700 – 1900)

Life / Medicine

Stethoscope

René Laennec rolled paper into a tube in 1816 to hear the heart and lungs, founding diagnosis by listening to the body's sounds.

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His 1819 book on listening to the chest linked sounds heard in life to damage found at autopsy, for example in tuberculosis and pneumonia. Two-ear stethoscopes followed in the 1850s.

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