LAENNEC R.T.H De l’auscultation médiate ou traité du diagnostic des maladies des poumons et du coeur, fondé principalement sur ce nouveau moyen d’exploration.

Garrison-Morton, 2673; P.M.M., 280; Norman, 100 books famous in medicine, 57; Norman cat., 1253 ; Heirs of Hippocrates 1364.

First edition, first issue.

"Laennec's invention of the stethoscope provided the first adequate method for diagnosing diseases of the thorax, and represented the greatest advance in physical diagnosis between Auenbrugger's percussion and Röntgen's discovery of x-rays" (Norman).

"Laënnec was undoubtedly the most prominent French internist of his day. His ingenious use of a roll of paper as a first stethoscope opened an entirely new field of physical diagnosis, and by this means he virtually created the physical diagnose of pulmonary diseases, giving clear, concise definitions of phtisis, pneumothorax, emphysema, etc." (Heirs of Hippocrates).

Good copy despite partly split hinges.