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text: keywords medical equipment  stethoscope facts  stethoscopes history 
  when we hear the word doctor the first image comes in our mind is a person in a white coat with a stethoscope hanging around his neck the stethoscope has become a very common name amongst people thanks to its display in various tv shows movies and frequent use of it by doctors but still there are many fun facts which other people might not know about stethoscope so here they are  
   years old history  yes stethoscopes are one of the oldest inventions which are still being used across the world by millions of doctors rene laennec in  had invented the stethoscope it was a wooden instrument and looked quite different from what we see it as now 
  i see your chest  stethoscope is a greek word which roughly translates into i see the chest stethos means chest and scope mean examination 
  an interesting story behind its invention  when stethoscope was not invented doctors would put their ears around the chest of patients and gently tap the chest with fingers this technique would make female patients little uncomfortable rene laennec was a very shy person once he was examining an overweight woman he found it difficult to hear her hear sounds to hear heartbeats of that lady he rolled a quire paper into a tube and placed it on her chest this inspired him to make the device which we all are familiar with and called stethoscope 
  google doodle for rene laennec  on february th  rene laennec would have celebrated his th birthday to commemorate this day google doodle marked his th birthday 
  used to identify if a person is dead or not 
  nowadays stethoscope is used to hear heart sounds and to determine symbols of other diseases but initially stethoscope was designed to find out if the person in the hospital is dead or alive 
  it might be replaced very soon 
  as mentioned stethoscopes were invented almost  years ago and being in use for such a long time shows that how useful and efficient stethoscopes are however as the technology is getting advanced every passing day stethoscopes might be replaced very soon by pocketsized ultrasonic devices which can perform multiple measurements on patients 
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