Homage to Laënnec
September 12, the centenary of the first edition of the epoch-marking work, "Traité de l'auscultation médiate," by René-Théophile Hyacinthe Laënnec, the inventor of the stethoscope, was celebrated at Quimper (department of Finistère). On this occasion, a palm wreath was placed at the foot of the statue of the celebrated physician which stands in Saint-Corentin Place, and a commemorative tablet was affixed to the house where he was born. On his burial vault at Kerlouarnec, near Ploaré, another tablet was added in the presence of delegations of the medical corps and the Societé archéologique de Bretagne.In reality, we are more than a year late in celebrating the memory of one of the greatest men of which France can boast. The fact is, it was May 1, 1818, that the first work of Laënnec on auscultation was published, and it was during the course of the same year