biography
| name: |
Auenbrugger, Leopold
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pronunciation:
[owenbruger]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1722–1809)
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| biography:
| Physician, born in Graz, SE Austria. He was the first to use percussion (tapping parts of the body and using the sound to aid diagnosis) in medical practice. He also wrote the libretto for one of Salieri's operas. |
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