The Rise of Digital and AI Stethoscopes
The earliest reference to listening to breath for the examination of body sounds was in the Ebers Papyrus from Egypt, dating to around 1550. However, it was in 1816 that the first stethoscope was created by Dr. Theophile Laennec, who believed it was improper to put his head on a young lady’s chest. He rolled up a piece of […]