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the stethoscope in 1816,
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so that the modern physical examination
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became more one-- not just observing the patient,
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but examining him or her,
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and the stethoscope became
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a hallmark and symbol of the Paris school.
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Indeed, it became a symbol
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in nineteenth-century medicine.
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Here we see--this was the
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monaural stethoscope of the type used by Laennec.
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It may have been important
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also that he was a musician,