M0018994: Laennec using a stethoscope on a patient

Picture showing Rene-Theophile-Hyacinthe Laennec (1781-1826) French physician and musician using a stethoscope on a patient whilst observed by other medical practitioners. After a fresco by Theobald Chartran in the Sorbonne commemorating the invention of the stethoscope. The picture was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at an unknown point and accessioned in 1940 (accession number P2482/1940)

March 1962

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: R2482/1940

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

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