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The
first American edition of R.T.H. Laennec's Treatise of the Diseases of the Chest, in
which they are Described according to their Anatomical Characters and their
Diagnosis established on a new principle by means of Acoustick Instruments with
plates. Translated
from the French by John Forbes. Philadelphia: James Webster,
1823. Shown below are the title page of the text and
a plate by Tiebout of a schematic of the wooden stethoscope
Laennec invented, that Laennec stated "any turner will be able to make the instrument." SOLD
The second American edition of Charles J.B. William's A Rational Exposition of the Physical Signs of the Diseasses of the Lungs and Pleura, from the last London Edition, Philadelphia, Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1834.
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