Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Original Cases with dissections and observations illustrating the use of the stethoscope and percussion in the diagnosis of diseases of the chest

  • Portrait of Sir John Forbes as a young man

    Robin AgnewLiverpool, United Kingdom Introduction Sir John Forbes, the remarkable Scottish royal physician and medical journalist, died on 13 November 1861. He was not an innovator like the great French physician René Laȅnnec (1781–1826), who invented the monaural stethoscope in 1816. This consisted of a crude cylinder that could be applied directly to the chest…