In 1816, a French physician named René Laennec, embarrassed to press his ear against the chest of a young female patient, rolled up a sheet of paper into a tube and listened through it instead — and t
AI disclosure
Summary
In 1816, a thirty-five-year-old French physician named René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laennec was working at the Hôpital Necker in Paris when a young woman arrived...