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Published a two-volume clinical treatise describing mediate auscultation with a tubular instrument and relating characteristic chest sounds to pathological findings in diseases of the lungs and heart.
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The record is Laennec's sole-author first edition of 1819. It does not absorb every antecedent form of direct auscultation, later stethoscope designs, later editions and translations or modern diagnostic-accuracy claims.
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René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laennec
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Laennec: mediate auscultation of diseases of the lungs and heart
Published a two-volume clinical treatise describing mediate auscultation with a tubular instrument and relating characteristic chest sounds to pathological findings in diseases of the lungs and heart.
Scientific scope
The record is Laennec's sole-author first edition of 1819. It does not absorb every antecedent form of direct auscultation, later stethoscope designs, later editions and translations or modern diagnostic-accuracy claims.
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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laennec
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.