Frederic L. Holmes’s scientific contributions

... 4 He uses the same term 'clinic' to describe both the clinical method of the examination of the patients and the teaching institution for the future physicians, founded by the French Revolutionaries as the 'new age hospitals' which as such were part of a wider cognitive revolution, which has included changes in the organisation of schools, prisons, workshops and barracks as well. 5,6,7,8 In the above described milieu came Laennec with his invention of stethoscope (Greek stéthos -chest and skopé -examination) in 1816 as an acoustic medical device for auscultation, 3 Kuhn, Thomas S (1996). The structure of scientific revolutions, Chicago and London; University of Chicago Press, 8. 4 Foucault, Michel (2005). ...

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200th Anniversary of the Beginning of Clinical Application of the Laennec’s Stethoscope in 1819