French doctor born in Quimper, Brittany, famous for being the inventor of the stethoscope (1819), a instrument that would become almost the symbol of medicine, and inventor of auscultation, and considered the father of chest medicine. Guided by a medical uncle from Nantes, he graduated in medicine from the Faculty of Paris (1804). He served as visiting physician at the Necker Hospital (1806), becoming chief physician (1816).
Interested in pathological anatomy, he sought to establish a direct relationship between diseases and the sounds they provoke inside the body, creating his main invention, the stethoscope, and he published the Traité d'Auscultation Mediate or De l'auscultation mediate (1819), which had great repercussion in the field. doctor. He was appointed professor of practical medicine at the College de France (1822), the following year he replaced Jean-Nicolas Corvisart des Marets. Napoleon's physician, in the chair of clinical medicine at the Charité hospital, he won many honors, including that of knight of the Legion of Honor.
He studied in depth various diseases, especially those related to the airways and the heart. He masterfully described bronchiectasis, pneumothorax, epiema, pneumonia and pulmonary tuberculosis, which would victimize him a few years later. He explained the diseases known as Laënnec's pearls, jelly-like secretions expelled in chronic asthma, and Laënnec's cirrhosis, a condition whose main etiological factor is alcoholism. He died at Kerlouanec, leaving as his main work De l'auscultation mediate (Paris, 1819).
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