“The result has been, that I have been enabled to discover a set of new signs of diseases of the chest, for the most part ...

French physician R. T. H. Laennec invents the stethoscope, the most important medical innovation until the X-ray in 1895. Laennec writes, "I was consulted by a young woman laboring under general ...

Rene Laennec, felt uncomfortable examining a female patient that close, so he took a piece of paper, rolled it up and, voila! Your first stethoscope was created! "L'Inconnue de la Seine" was a ...