Abstract
The story of the great French physician R T H Laennec has been told many times1–4. This paper will therefore present only a brief biographical sketch but will focus on the circumstances surrounding the actual moment when Laennec invented the monaural stethoscope as a tool to aid diagnosis of affections of the heart and lungs.
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