The Invention that Revolutionized Medicine

In 1816, a young French physician named Rene Laennec rolled up a stack of papers and invented one of the most important instruments for modern medicine: the stethoscope. Join Anna Dhody to learn about this fascinating chapter in medical history!

Written by Patrick Kelly
https://www.youtube.com/c/Corporis

Video by Jonah Stern

Bibliography
Leopold Auennbrugger’s 1761 treatise on percussion in Latin
https://archive.org/details/leopoldiauenbrug00auen/page/n5/mode/2up
English Translation of Laennec's De L’Auscultation Médiate (1821)
https://archive.org/details/treatiseondiseas00laen
Reception of the stethoscope and Laennec’s book (1981)
https://thorax.bmj.com/content/thoraxjnl/36/7/487.full.pdf
Auenbrugger, Corvisart, and the Perception of Disease (1998)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/30053888?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
Tapping on the chest of history (2018)
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/15a8/a158db456b71e59c1b36ba1d40c6beb7b6df.pdf

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