Tuberculosis diagnosis, 19th century. Artwork showing the French physician Rene Laennec (1781-1826), at the Necker Hospital, Paris, France, examining

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Tuberculosis diagnosis, 19th century. Artwork showing the French physician Rene Laennec (1781-1826), at the Necker Hospital, Paris, France, examining a patient (left, in bed) with consumption (tuberculosis) in front of his students. At the time, this disease was invariably fatal. This scene was the subject of a wall painting (mural) by French painter Theobald Chartran (1849-1907), located at the Sorbonne, Paris, France. The original artwork or scene dates from Laennec's 1819 work 'De l'Auscultation Mediate'.

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