Spain, February 17, 2016 .- René Laennec observed in the fall of 1816 children playing in the gardens of the Louvre with a piece of wood. While you gave blows to one end of the table, on the other, others approached their ears to hear the sound. It made him think. Imitating rustic mechanism wreathed sheets of paper into a tube, convinced that at last he had found the solution to a problem that had tormenting time: discomfort and, above all, the embarrassment involved you stick your ear to the breasts of her patients when auscultarles.
the first stethoscope, also called stethoscope, is currently housed at the museum of Anesthesiology Wood Library in Chicago.
Laënnec, a doctor, a specialist in diagnosing chest problems, sent the same day to build a contraption of hollow wood, 30 centimeters long and four in diameter, two-piece with a central channel five millimeters and two ends funnel. So it was that, as a result of modesty, the women’s refusal to let a man get close both and the difficulty to perceive a sound in obese patients, was born the first stethoscope, also called stethoscope, currently hosted at the Museum of Anesthesiology Wood Library in Chicago . Its name comes from the combination of the Greek words which mean stethos chest and skopein which refers to the fact observar-. In use, the medical study conducted with him, he was called auscultation.
René Laennec was born in Brittany in 1781. At age 12 he went to stay with her uncle, doctor practical and university professor, who was infected by the passion for medicine. He studied at the Ecole Spéciale de Santé in Paris, won two national awards in 1803 and for some years worked under the tutelage of Napoleon’s physician, Dr. Corvisart, and the prestigious Dr. Dupuytren. In 1816 he was appointed head of the Necker Hospital in Paris. And that was when he had to deal with a patient’s entry into kilos, with big tits. I was also listening to women Laënnec, hit a bad heart in front of her husband and mother. Perceived in the eyes of the sick excessive modesty, the doctor finally gave up this step and reduced the recognition decision pulse and chest percussion.
Its name comes from the combination of the Greek words which mean stethos chest and skopein which refers to the act of observing -.
René Laennec created, in fact, a speaker of the heart and lungs. Until then, physicians exploring the sick to blow and ear. With the first, just resting on the body that winds the human body detected heartbeat. With the second, against the rib cage, listening breathing. The examination went smoothly when the patient and physician skinny women with small breasts and less modesty faced. Things get complicated when the sufferer had more fat than recommended, had many curves and decorum.
Laënnec withdrew. He resigned from the process of pulling the tip of the breast. And, in their search for a method that at least he avoided the embarrassment, he said. “Direct auscultation (supporting the ear) was inadmissible on the age and sex of the patient later-he explained. It was then that I remembered a simple and known fact about noise … The ease to perceive the scratch of a pin at the end of a wooden board, supporting the ear on the other end. Immediately after this suggestion, enrrollé a part forming a cylinder and applied one end of the region of the heart and the other on my ear, and it was no small surprise and satisfaction to find that I could perceive the action of the heart much more clearly than any of the other times he had directly supported the ear “form.
René Laennec’s contribution to medicine also became, next to the white coat in the great symbol of the physician. Two hundred years later, she has begun to agonize. But stethoscope is really obsolete? Is it necessary in the XXI century with advanced technology devices able to shed much more accurate results, take this device around his neck? What today brings an instrument of 1816? The debate is open . / ZGM.
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