Word: laennec
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the discovery of the stethoscope by Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec in 1816 (published 1819), physicians all over the world have been bothered by muscle sounds interfering with breath, heart, and other sounds that they wished to hear through the stethoscope...
Nine years ago, as a young businessman in Detroit, Henry Schuman opened a little bookshop with his collection of first editions. One day an elderly doctor wandered in, asked for a volume by Réné Laennec, inventor of the stethoscope (1819). Bookseller Schuman found the search for this book as exciting as "digging in the Klondike," turned up several unexpected medical treasures along the way. After this, he devoted himself to rare medical books...