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LAENNEC, Pierre Théophile (1781-1826, inventor of the stethoscope). Autograph letter signed to an old friend and colleague [Dr Jean Mabit at Bordeaux], Paris, 7 January 1824, 4 pages, 4to (a few small splashes of sealing wax on last page).
A letter after a long silence owing to preoccupations with his courses and plans for a clinic, and his recent marriage, offering advice about his correspondent's son, who should not be taken out more than once or twice a year and should not see any former friends older than himself. He warns of opposition to Mabit's nomination for the Academy of Médecine from Bally and François, the former having said that he was dissatisfied with him when he was in St Domingo, to which Laennec replied 'qu'il faut avoir bonne mémoire pour se rappeler de ce qu'a pu dire ou faire au milieu du tumulte d'une semblable expédition un jeune homme d'une vingtaine d'années'.
Laennec's experiments with the use of a stethoscope were proved successful in 1818. Jean Mabit (1781-1846), author of important studies on Asian cholera at Bordeaux and municipal hygiene, and a pioneer of homeopathy, served in the Italian and Egyptian campaigns, and in St Domingo where he was taken prisoner by the English. Laennec sent him his stethoscope as proof of his esteem for him.
A letter after a long silence owing to preoccupations with his courses and plans for a clinic, and his recent marriage, offering advice about his correspondent's son, who should not be taken out more than once or twice a year and should not see any former friends older than himself. He warns of opposition to Mabit's nomination for the Academy of Médecine from Bally and François, the former having said that he was dissatisfied with him when he was in St Domingo, to which Laennec replied 'qu'il faut avoir bonne mémoire pour se rappeler de ce qu'a pu dire ou faire au milieu du tumulte d'une semblable expédition un jeune homme d'une vingtaine d'années'.
Laennec's experiments with the use of a stethoscope were proved successful in 1818. Jean Mabit (1781-1846), author of important studies on Asian cholera at Bordeaux and municipal hygiene, and a pioneer of homeopathy, served in the Italian and Egyptian campaigns, and in St Domingo where he was taken prisoner by the English. Laennec sent him his stethoscope as proof of his esteem for him.
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