French physician, inventor of stethoscope (1781-1826)

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René Théophile Hyacinthe Laënnec auscultating a tubercular patient at the Necker Hospital, Paris, 1816. Heliogravure after a painting by T. Chartran.

René Théophile Hyacinthe Laennec. Photograph after a statue.

René Théophile Hyacinthe Laënnec auscultating a tubercular patient at the Necker Hospital, Paris, 1816. Reproduction after a painting by T. Chartran.

René Théophile Hyacinthe Laënnec. Process print after a painting on ivory.

A treatise on the diseases of the chest, and on mediate auscultation / by R.T.H. Laennec ... ; translated from the third French edition, with copious notes, a sketch of the author's life, and an extensive bibliography of the different diseases, by John Forbes ... ; to which are added the notes of Professor Andral, contained in the fourth and latest French edition, translated and accompanied with observations on cerebral auscultation, by John D. Fisher ... ; with plates.

René Théophile Hyacinthe Laënnec. Process print after a stipple engraving.

A treatise on the diseases of the chest and on mediate auscultation / by R.T.H. Laennec ... ; translated from the French with notes and a sketch of the author's life, by John Forbes.

René Théophile Hyacinthe Laënnec auscultating a tuberculous patient at the Necker Hospital, Paris. Gouache after T. Chartran.

Rewards and fairies / by Rudyard Kipling ; with illustrations by Frank Craig.

Laennec : a great student of tuberculosis / P.J. Bishop.

A treatise on the diseases of the chest, in which they are described according to their anatomical characters, and their diagnosis established on a new principle by means of acoustick instruments. ... / R.T.H. Laennec ; translated from the French ... with a preface and notes by John Forbes.

A treatise on the diseases of the chest and on mediate auscultation / by R.T.H. Laennec. Translated from the latest French edition / with notes and a sketch of the author's life / by John Forbes.

Mémoire sur les vers vésiculaires, et principalement sur ceux qui se trouvent dans le corps humain; lu à la séance du 26 pluviose an XII (1804) [de la Société de la Faculté de Médecine de Paris] / [R.T.H. Laennec].

De l'auscultation médiate de l'exploration de la poitrine / Laennec.

A manual of percussion and auscultation / Composed from the French of Meriédec [sic] Laënnec [i.e. his ed. of R.T.H. Laënnec].

A treatise on the diseases of the chest, in which they are described according to their anatomical characters, and their diagnosis established on a new principle by means of acoustick instruments ... / Translated from the French ... with a preface and notes by John Forbes.

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René Laennec

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Mémoire sur les vers vésiculaires, et principalement sur ceux qui se trouvent dans le corps humain; lu à la séance du 26 pluviose an XII (1804) [de la Société de la Faculté de Médecine de Paris] / [R.T.H. Laennec].

De l'auscultation médiate de l'exploration de la poitrine / Laennec.

A manual of percussion and auscultation / Composed from the French of Meriédec [sic] Laënnec [i.e. his ed. of R.T.H. Laënnec].

A treatise on the diseases of the chest, in which they are described according to their anatomical characters, and their diagnosis established on a new principle by means of acoustick instruments ... / Translated from the French ... with a preface and notes by John Forbes.

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René Laennec

Images from the collections

Images by René Laennec

Images featuring René Laennec

Works from the collections

Mémoire sur les vers vésiculaires, et principalement sur ceux qui se trouvent dans le corps humain; lu à la séance du 26 pluviose an XII (1804) [de la Société de la Faculté de Médecine de Paris] / [R.T.H. Laennec].

De l'auscultation médiate de l'exploration de la poitrine / Laennec.

A manual of percussion and auscultation / Composed from the French of Meriédec [sic] Laënnec [i.e. his ed. of R.T.H. Laënnec].

A treatise on the diseases of the chest, in which they are described according to their anatomical characters, and their diagnosis established on a new principle by means of acoustick instruments ... / Translated from the French ... with a preface and notes by John Forbes.

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