UZ 200. OBLJETNICU POČETKA KLINIČKE UPORABE LAËNNECOVA STETOSKOPA 1819. GODINE

Although stethoscope was invented by French physician René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laennec (1781-1826) in 1816, its wider clinical application started only after the publication of his book entitled De l’Auscultation Médiate ou Traité, du Diagnostic des Maladies des Poumons et du Coeur in 1819. Its invention coincided with the development of the ‘hospital medicine’ in the post-revolutionary Paris during the first quarter of the 19th century. It has enabled then contemporary physicians to explain the correlation between the patient symptoms and the clinical findings and thus has helped the shift from the humoral pathology towards the solitary pathology.Iako je francuski liječnik René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laënnec (1781. – 1826.) izumio stetoskop 1816., njegova šira klinička uporaba započela je tek nakon objavljivanja njegove knjige De l’Auscultation Médiate ou Traité, du Diagnostic des Maladies des Poumons et du Coeur 1819. Njegov izum koincidirao je s razvojem ‘bolničke medicine’ u postrevolucionarnom Parizu u prvoj četvrtini 19. stoljeća. Uporaba stetoskopa omogućila je tadašnjim liječnicima razjašnjavanje poveznice između pacijentovih simptoma i kliničkih nalaza te time pomogla prijelaz s humoralne na solitarnu patologiju