Rene Laennec

This page lists items in the database related to René Laennec (b. Quimper, Brittany, France, 17 February 1781; d. Kerlouarnec, Brittany, France, 13 August 1826):

• Dupuytren Museum in Paris

• Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades with René Laennec’s memorial tablet in Paris

• Laennec’s Monaural Stethoscope in the Warren Anatomical Museum, Boston

• René Laennec’s bas-relief in Paris

• René Laennec’s false portrait in the Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire de Médecine (Bium) of the Université Paris Descartes, Paris

• René Laennec’s home in Nantes

• René Laennec’s last home in Paris

• René Laennec’s monument in Quimper

• René Laennec’s original stethoscopes in the Musée d’Histoire de la Médecine of the Université Paris Descartes, Paris

• “René Laennec”(1854) after Dubois in the Université Paris Descartes, Paris

Bibliography

– H.Bon, Laennec, Lumière, Dijon 1925, pp. 171
– W.F.Bynum and Helen Bynum, Dictionary of medical biography, Greenwood Press, Westport (CT) 2007, vol. 3, pp. 757-761
– Jacalyn Duffin, To See with a Better Eye. A Life of R.T.H.Laennec, Princeton University Press, Princeton 1998, pp. 453
– François Puget, Libres propos: un portrait inédit de Laennec, Histoire des Sciences médicales, 1998, 32 (2), pp. 211-220 (on Laennec’s iconography)
– A.Rouxeau, Laennec, Baillière, Paris 1912-1920, 2 voll.
– Henri Saintignon, Laennec. Sa Vie et Son Oeuvre, Baillière et Fils, Paris 1904, pp. 488