Science· Nantes
Laennec à Nantes
This event appears to concern the Nantes period of René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laënnec (1781–1826), the Breton physician who invented the stethoscope. As a young man, Laënnec trained in medicine in Nantes under his uncle and mentor, Dr. Guillaume-François Laënnec, at the Hôtel-Dieu hospital, an experience that shaped his later pioneering work in auscultation and the study of