...stopping of the lungs is easily discovered by the weezing, the stopping of the head by the humming and the whistling noises, the slipping to and fro of the joints,...cases by crackling and the like, as to the working or motions of the parts one among another." From this passage it is clear that Dr. Hook used the stethoscope...

...the guts and other small vessels ; the stopping in the lungs is easily discovered by the wheezing, the stopping of the head by the humming and whistling...in its operation, the noise of fire in dissolving." Laennec knew the dead languages as well as did Johannes Miiller or others who had been trained by the...

...the guts and other small vessels ; the stopping in the lungs is easily discovered by the wheezing, the stopping of the head by the humming and whistling...in its operation, the noise of fire in dissolving.' After his invention Laennec toiled like a fanatic. An undersized body did the work of twenty men. He...

...Wind to and fro in the Guts, and other small Vessels, the stopping of the Lungs is easily discover'd by the Wheesing, the Stopping of the Head, by the humming and whistling Noises, the fliping to and fro of the Joy nts in many cases, by crackling, and the like; . . .and so to their becoming...

...in the guts and other small vessels; the stopping in the lungs is easily discovered by the wheezing, the stopping of the head by the humming and whistling...the joints, in many cases by crackling and the like. Although direct auscultation had thus long been known to be theoretically possible, it was little practiced;...

...and other small vessels; the stopping in the lungs is easily discovered by the wheezing, the stopping the head by the humming and whistling noises, the...in its operation, the noise of fire in dissolving." Rarely has an investigator in medicine had so few predecessors as Laennec. After his invention Laennec...