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One of the original stethoscopes belonging to Rene Theophile Laennec made of wood and brass. The stethoscope quickly gained popularity as De l'Auscultation Médiate [6] was translated and distributed across France, England, Italy, and Germany in the early 1820s. [9] However, not all doctors readily embraced the new stethoscope.
John Forbes, drawing by John Partridge. Sir John Forbes FRCP FRS (17 December 1787 – 13 November 1861) was a Scottish physician, famous for his translation of the classic French medical text De L'Auscultation Mediate [1] by René Laennec, the inventor of the stethoscope.
The stethoscope was invented in France in 1816 by René Laennec at the Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital in Paris. [1] [2] [3] It consisted of a wooden tube and was monaural. Laennec invented the stethoscope because he was not comfortable placing his ear directly onto a woman's chest in order to listen to her heart.
May 30, 1815 – The Arniston, an East Indiaman repatriating wounded troops to England from Ceylon, is wrecked near Waenhuiskrans, South Africa with the loss of 372 of the 378 people on board. September 23, 1815 – The Great September Gale of 1815 is the first hurricane to strike New England in 180 years.
In 1851, Leared invented the binaural stethoscope, a stethoscope that fits into both ears. His stethoscope was made of gutta-percha and was displayed at the Great Exhibition . [ 2 ]
English inventions and discoveries are objects, processes or techniques invented, innovated or discovered, partially or entirely, in England by a person from England. Often, things discovered for the first time are also called inventions and in many cases, there is no clear line between the two.
He went on to create two important works on cardiac and pulmonary diseases – A Treatise on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases of the Chest (1837) and The Diseases of the Heart and Aorta (1854) – as well as one of the first treatises on the use of the stethoscope. He emphasised the importance of clinical examination in forming diagnoses ...
Beginning in the 1840s, European surgery began to change dramatically in character with the discovery of effective and practical anesthetic chemicals such as ether, first used by the American surgeon Crawford Long (1815–1878), and chloroform, discovered by James Young Simpson (1811–1870) and later pioneered in England by John Snow (1813 ...