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Life Lesson #96 – Pay Attention and Be Diligent.
It was over 200 years ago, that a boy named Rene Laennec was born in France. He was a good student in school, and by the age of twelve, he could not only read and speak French, he also knew Greek, Latin, German, and English.
There was a war going on in France while Rene was still very young, and when he was only 14-years-old, he began HELPING to care for wounded soldiers. By the time he was 18, he was actually serving in a military hospital as a surgeon. Rene Laennec became a famous doctor in France. He studied a lot about the human heart and lungs, as well as the diseases that can affect them.
One morning, Dr. Laennec was out taking a walk when he saw two young children playing with a long piece of solid wood. One child was scratching the end of the piece of wood while the other child held his ear to the opposite end. He could hear the scratching very loudly. That’s what inspired the doctor’s invention of the stethoscope.
After experimenting, Dr. Rene Laennec found that a hollow tube of wood HELPED him hear sounds of the heart and lungs very clearly and loudly. Although stethoscopes have changed through the years, it was Rene Laennec, the young boy from France, who grew up to absolutely revolutionize the medical field by inventing the stethoscope.
– Jim Lord