René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laennec (; 17 February 1781 – 13 August 1826 ) was a French physician.

Laennec was born in Quimper ( Brittany ).

His mother died of tuberculosis when he was five or six, and he went to live with his grand-uncle the Abbé Laennec ( a priest ).

Laennec was a devout Catholic.

Laennec had discovered that the new stethoscope was superior to the normally used method of placing the ear over the chest, particularly if the patient was overweight.

Laennec was the first to classify and discuss the terms rales, rhonchi, crepitance, and egophony – terms that doctors now use on a

Although the disease of cirrhosis was known, Laennec gave cirrhosis its name, using the Greek word ( kirrhos, tawny ) that referred to the tawny, yellow nodules characteristic of the disease.

" Over the years, there were bitter exchanges between Laennec and Dupuytren, the latter objecting that there was no mention of his work in this area and his role in its discovery.

The stethoscope was invented in France in 1816 by René Laennec at the Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital in Paris.

He soon was able to perceive the immense diagnostic value of these images for tuberculosis and other pulmonary affections, and he began his photographic studies of the lungs in 1918, now at the Laennec Hospital ( also in France ).

It was described by René Laennec in 1826.

* At the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 one of the four medical schools is named after Laennec.

Laennec studied medicine in Paris under several famous physicians, including Dupuytren and Nicolas Corvisart des Marest.

At the age of twelve he proceeded to Nantes where his uncle, Guillaime-François Laennec, worked in the faculty of medicine at the university.

Laennec wrote the classic treatise De l ' Auscultation Médiate, published in August 1819.

Laennec is said to have seen schoolchildren playing with long, hollow sticks in the days leading up to his innovation.

Laennec often referred to the stethoscope as " the cylinder ," and as he neared death only a few years later, he bequeathed his own stethoscope to his nephew, referring to it as " the greatest legacy of my life.

Laennec actually used the term ' melanose ,' which he derived from the Greek ( mela, melan ) for " black.

Coincidentally, his nephew, Mériadec Laennec, is said to have diagnosed tuberculosis in Laennec using Laennec ’ s stethoscope.

Laennec advocated objective scientific observation.

René Laennec, painted by Paul Dubois ( sculptor ) | Paul Dubois in 1854.

On the exterior wall of the " Hôpital Necker – Enfants Malades ", where Laennec wrote Mediate auscultation, near the entrance of the hospital in 149, Rue de Sèvres, there is a marble memorial tablet with an engraved portrait of Laennec and this inscription: " Dans cet hôpital Laennec découvrit l ' auscultation.

Image: Laennec memorial, Necker Hospital, Paris 1. jpg | The entrance in Rue de Sevres

Image: Hopital_Necker_Laennec_stethoscope_2. jpg | Laennec ’ s memorial tablet

Image: Laennec memorial, Necker Hospital, Paris 3. jpg | One of the old buildings of the hospital

Image: Rene-Theophile-Hyacinthe Laennec ( 1781-1826 ) with stethoscope. jpg | René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laennec ( 1781 – 1826 ) with stethoscope

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