Laennec: mediate auscultation of diseases of the lungs and heart

What changed

Published systematic tubular-instrument auscultation and clinical-pathological chest-sound correlations.

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.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. 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.

Contributors

• René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laennec · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

• Gallica digitization of Laennec volume 1

Provisional WRS assessment, edition 2026-10-16.1. Independent expert calibration is pending. This grade does not certify correctness or assign ownership.

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