Google doodle today pays tribute to Rene Laennec ,the inventor of stethoscope, on his 235th birthday. The doodle is simple wherein one of the letters ‘O’ shows a pair of human lungs, and two doctors using the first prototype, and a modern version of the stethoscope.
Rene Laennec, born this day in 1781, was a French physician who invented the stethoscope- one of the most obligatory medical instruments that fundamentally changed the way lung and heart problems are detected and diagnosed. It was his shy nature that led to the invention Laennec is well known for.
Rene Laennec is considered as ‘the father of clinical auscultation’. He wrote the first descriptions of bronchiectasis and cirrhosis and also classified pulmonary conditions such as pneumonia, bronchiectasis, pleurisy, emphysema, pneumothorax, phthisis and other lung diseases from the sounds he heard with his invention. Rene Laennec succeeded in inventing several clinical terms that are used till today.
