Editorial

200TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BEGINNING OF CLINICAL APPLICATION OF THE LAENNEC’S STETHOSCOPE IN 1819

Bruno Atalić orcid.org/0000-0003-0741-9632 ; Clinical Department for Diagnostic Radiology, Clinical-Hospital Centre Rijeka, Krešimirova 42, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia.

Abstract

Although stethoscope was invented by French physician René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laennec
(1781-1826) in 1816, its wider clinical application started only after the publication of his
book entitled De l’Auscultation Médiate ou Traité, du Diagnostic des Maladies des
Poumons et du Coeur in 1819. Its invention coincided with the development of the ‘hospital
medicine’ in the post-revolutionary Paris during the first quarter of the 19th century. It
has enabled then contemporary physicians to explain the correlation between the patient
symptoms and the clinical findings and thus has helped the shift from the humoral pathology
towards the solitary pathology.

Keywords

René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laennec; history of medicine; 19th century; stethoscope; scientific revolution; clinic; hospital medicine; Paris

Hrčak ID:

223248

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/223248

Publication date:

1.7.2019.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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