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A patient exposes her breasts to a physician and asks if a physician is not a little like a confessor: the doctor exclaims that he hopes she does not show herself like that to her confessor. Process print afterJ-A. Faivre, 1902.

De l'auscultation médiate, ou traité du diagnostic des maladies des poumons et du cœur, fondé principalement sur ce nouveau moyen d'exploration / Par R.T.H. Laennec.

René Théophile Hyacinthe Laënnec auscultating a tubercular patient at the Necker Hospital, Paris, 1816. Heliogravure after a painting by T. Chartran.

A treatise on the diseases of the chest, in which they are described according to their anatomical characters, and their diagnosis established on a new principle by means of acoustick instruments. ... / R.T.H. Laennec ; translated from the French ... with a preface and notes by John Forbes.

René Théophile Hyacinthe Laënnec auscultating a tubercular patient at the Necker Hospital, Paris, 1816. Reproduction after a painting by T. Chartran.

Traité de l'ausculation médiate et des maladies des poumons et du coeur / par R.-T.-H. Laennec.

A treatise on the diseases of the chest and on mediate auscultation / by R.T.H. Laennec. Translated from the latest French edition / with notes and a sketch of the author's life / by John Forbes.

A treatise on the diseases of the chest, and on mediate auscultation / by R.T.H. Laennec ... ; translated from the third French edition, with copious notes, a sketch of the author's life, and an extensive bibliography of the different diseases, by John Forbes ... ; to which are added the notes of Professor Andral, contained in the fourth and latest French edition, translated and accompanied with observations on cerebral auscultation, by John D. Fisher ... ; with plates.

A treatise on the diseases of the chest and on mediate auscultation / by R.T.H Laennec ... ; translated from the latest French edition, with notes and a sketch of the author's life, by John Forbes ... ; with plates ; from the third revised London edition, with additional notes.

Abhandlung über perkussion und auskultation / [Joseph Škoda].

Intracranial bruits.

Tentamen medicum inaugurale de stethoscopio ... / eruditorum examini subjicit Joannes Calthrop Williams.

A manual of auscultation and percussion / by M. Barth and Henri Roger.

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A treatise on the diseases of the chest and on mediate auscultation / by R.T.H Laennec ... ; translated from the latest French edition, with notes and a sketch of the author's life, by John Forbes ... ; with plates ; from the third revised London edition, with additional notes.

Abhandlung über perkussion und auskultation / [Joseph Škoda].

Intracranial bruits.

Tentamen medicum inaugurale de stethoscopio ... / eruditorum examini subjicit Joannes Calthrop Williams.

A manual of auscultation and percussion / by M. Barth and Henri Roger.