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1851, the stethoscope started to have major changes/improvements by an Irish physician named Arthur Leared and later on got clarified by George Cammann to make it bi-aural.Loading...
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By the 1900's the stethoscope now had decreased concerns and was being commonly used for diagnoses.Loading...
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Throughout, the stethoscope had many minor advancements, which were to reduce the weight, improve the quality,and filter out external noises through the 20th century.Loading...
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Discoveries that stethoscope lead to:Loading...
The stethoscope lead to many discoveries which would become helpful for doctors. Rene Laennec found that when a person has fluid beneath their lungs, they make a bleating sound, kind of like a goat, he called the sound egophony. He also discovered sounds that tracked with the different stages of tuberculosis.Loading...
The beat of the heart told many different things about the body, and soon through the stethoscope, doctors were making other important discoveries that changed the way people thought about disease. Medical language completely changed, as doctors invented new anatomical words for diseases, like Bronchitis, which means the inflammation of the bronchial tubes.It helped the doctors to hear the full spectrum of internal sounds.Loading...
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Before the stethoscope was invented, for a person to be sick, they had to feel sick but now, it doesn’t matter what the patient thought was wrong and instead mostly mattered what the doctor found. And René Laennec later died in 1826 at the age of 45 and mostly likely of tuberculosis, a disease he and his stethoscope helped us understand.