Which French physician invented the stethoscope in 1816 after feeling awkward placing his ear directly on a female patient's chest?
Before the stethoscope, doctors practised 'immediate auscultation' by pressing an ear against the patient's body. A moment of Parisian propriety led to one of medicine's most enduring instruments.
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