Did you know?

-Doctors diagnose problems with the heart and lungs by placing their ears against the patients body.

-Doctor René Theophile-Hyacinthe Laënnece was treating a patient who had chest pains. The young lady was thick so he grabbed a piece of rolled it up into a tube and discovered he could hear her weak lung and beating heart a lot easier then using his ear. That day the stethoscope was developed 1816.

-In 1851 a binaural stethoscope allowing the use of both ears.

21st Century and 19th Century Medicine

-21st century medicine is delivered using the practices from the 19th century.

-The contradiction between the new and old is the information systems doctors hospitals use to take care of their patients.

Thought for the day: 19 century poem.