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By Jacalyn Duffin. 453 pp. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1998. $49.50. ISBN 0-691-03708-6.

This is an era of indifference to and poverty of skill in auscultation, which is unfortunate, since many of us trained in earlier days learned to relish the challenge, stimulus, and revelations that come from auscultation of the heart, lungs, great vessels, and torso. A new biography of Laennec, the father of auscultation, may therefore seem inappropriately timed. However, the advantage of good historical writing is that no time is inappropriate, and this book is indeed welcome.

René Théophile Hyacinthe Laennec was born in Brittany in 1781 into a family in modest circumstances. After the death of his mother when . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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