biography
| name: |
Laënnec, René (Théophile Hyacinthe)
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pronunciation:
[laynek]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1781–1826)
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| biography:
| Physician, born in Quimper, NW France. An army doctor from 1799, in 1816 he became chief physician to the Hôpital Necker where he invented the stethoscope (1816), with which he studied patients' lung and heart sounds for a three-year period. He published the classic Traité de l'auscultation mèdiate (1819, On Mediate Auscultation), and is sometimes called ‘the father of thoracic medicine’. |
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