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Google Remember the birth of René Laennec

The doodle that Google dedicates to Laennec today

On 17 February 1781 the doctor René-Théophile-Marie-Hyacinthe Laennec was born in Quimper and Google celebrates its birthday with a doodle, nice and colorful, dedicated to him.

Although his name is not very popular, this French doctor he was a prominent man and a brilliant innovator in his field and therefore deserves to be known more deeply.

Scholar of methods to improve auscultation , Laennec is responsible for the invention, in 1816, of the stethoscope , a tool that immediately proved to be of essential importance for any doctor.

As always, Google gives the possibility to all those who want to know more about the character, to find in a moment all the voices of the web refer to it, just click on the doodle and all related search results will open immediately.