title: The prelude to stethoscopy: some French, British and Irish contributions in the early nineteenth century. 2002.
abstract: In 1819, René Laënnec published his classical work on the newly invented stethoscope; this was translated into English by John Forbes in 1821. This article describes some of the early contributions by various authors in their attempts to link the new auscultatory signs to the underlying pathology in the thorax.
authors.affiliation: Liverpool Medical History Society, UK.
authors.forename: Robin
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Agnew
mesh_terms: D001314:Auscultation / Q000266:history*; D004739:England; D005602:France; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D007494:Ireland; D019023:Stethoscopes / Q000266:history*