Sneaky's Daily Did You Know....? - Inventive Minds
The Stethoscope was born out of shyness. Young French physician Rene Laennec had to examine a pretty woman with a heart condition.
The ususal practice in the early 19th century was for a doctor to listen to the patient's heartbeat by placing his ear next to her bare chest. But laennec felt too embarrassed and so he used a rolled up newspaper instead.
Intrigued to find that the tubular shape magnified the sounds, he went on to construct a wooden cylinder - the worlds first stethoscope.
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