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LAËNNEC, R.T.H. De l' Ausculation Médiate ou Traité du Diagnostic des Maladies des Poumons et du Coeur, Paris, J.A. Brosson & J.S. Chaudé, 1819, 2 vols., 8°, FIRST EDITION, 4 folding engraved plates, half titles (titles bearing library stamp and accession no.), contemporary half calf (spines with adhesive tape over library shelf marks). [Garrison & Morton 2673; PMM 280; Honeyman Pt. V, lot 1877]
The first description of the stethoscope by its inventor who, observing children listening to sounds transmitted along a wooden stick, adapted the idea "for better hearing the amplified sounds within the chest ... What originally took the form of a roll of bound, stiff paper, later became a tube of cedar wood and still later took the form that we now know" [Dibner 129]
The first description of the stethoscope by its inventor who, observing children listening to sounds transmitted along a wooden stick, adapted the idea "for better hearing the amplified sounds within the chest ... What originally took the form of a roll of bound, stiff paper, later became a tube of cedar wood and still later took the form that we now know" [Dibner 129]