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René Laennec: Flutist, Stethoscope Inventer

French doctor René Laennec (1781-1826) had a sensitive ear; as a flutist he knew how to listen. In 1816, he came upon an idea that would help him to hear the internal sounds of the body.  He rolled up sheets of paper into a cylinder and pressed one end to a patient’s abdomen and the […]