French physician, inventor of stethoscope (1781-1826)

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.

xii, 338 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm

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].

Traité de l'auscultation médiate. Et des maladies des poumons et du coeur / par R.-T.-H. Laennec.

xxviii, 736 pages, VIII leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm (8vo)

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 ... ; with plates ; from the third revised London edition, with additional notes.

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

xliv, 675 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 2 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm (8vo)

A treatise on the diseases of the chest and on mediate auscultation / by R.T.H. Laennec ... ; translated from the latest French edition, with copious notes and a sketch of the author's life, by John Forbes ... ; from the fourth London edition, considerably enlarged and improved, with many additional notes and an extensive bibliography of the different diseases ; with plates.

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

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René Laenne

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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 ... ; with plates ; from the third revised London edition, with additional notes.

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].

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

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

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

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

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

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René Laenne

Images from the collections

Images by René Laenne

Images featuring René Laenne

Works from the collections

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 ... ; with plates ; from the third revised London edition, with additional notes.

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].

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

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

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

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

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

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