HLTH 385W Lecture 6: Laennec
12 Jul 2018
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Morgagni"s work stimulated physicians to localize patients symptoms. Auenbrugger added his discovery of tapping and listening. Born in 1781, lost his mother to tb at age 6. At age 19, he went to ecole de medicin in paris in 1800 to study medicine. In paris, laennec studied with guilaume dupuytren over a publication; dupuytren said he plagiarized from him. Was a brilliant pathologist, writing original descriptions of several pathological entities, mostly of those of the chest - all without a microscope. He was particularly fascinated by diseases of the chest. Using a handkerchief, like all physicians of the day, he would put his ear directly on the chest of patients. He was a devout catholic and very kind. Laennec loved the classics; taught himself ancient greek to read hippocrates in the original. He had several publications in medicine as a med student and won a prize as top student at his school.
