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==Overview== | |||
==Historical Perspective== | |||
* Two hundred years ago, in February 1818, Laënnec at the Paris Academy of Sciences discover the potiential application of his stethoscope and one year later he published the work De l’auscultation médiate or Traité du Diagnostic des Maladies des Poumon et du Coeur, in two volumes. | |||
* back to Hippocrates days, physicians performed auscultation of the heart by placing their ear directly on the patient’s chest, a technique called “immediate auscultation”. | |||
* In 1628, William Harvey (1578–1657) first treated heart sounds in De Motu Cordis. | |||
* Harvey, in his “visceral lectures” of 1616, compared heart sounds to “two clacks of a water bellows to rayse water.<ref name="urlWilliam Harvey: A Life in Circulation - Thomas Wright - Google Books">{{cite web |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/FpyECwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1 |title=William Harvey: A Life in Circulation - Thomas Wright - Google Books |format= |work= |accessdate=}}</ref> | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Nuha Al-Howthi, MD[2]
Overview
Historical Perspective
- Two hundred years ago, in February 1818, Laënnec at the Paris Academy of Sciences discover the potiential application of his stethoscope and one year later he published the work De l’auscultation médiate or Traité du Diagnostic des Maladies des Poumon et du Coeur, in two volumes.
- back to Hippocrates days, physicians performed auscultation of the heart by placing their ear directly on the patient’s chest, a technique called “immediate auscultation”.
- In 1628, William Harvey (1578–1657) first treated heart sounds in De Motu Cordis.
- Harvey, in his “visceral lectures” of 1616, compared heart sounds to “two clacks of a water bellows to rayse water.[1]