Archive for September, 2018

Listen Carefully, Inventor

Littman Stethoscope Few can argue that nothing imbues more  trust and credibility into an approaching doctor than  the sight of the mythical stethoscope that hangs loosely around his neck, symbolizing 257 years of medical evolution including some important patents along the way. While historians will mark 1761 as a key year in which the value of chest percussion was identified in Vienna, others will remind us of ov... Read More