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CLARK, Sir James (1788 – 1870)

CLARK, Sir James (1788 – 1870)

1788 – 1870

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1820 CE

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Medical notes on climate, diseases, hospitals, and medical schools, in France, Italy, and Switzerland; comprising an inquiry into the effects of a residence in the South of Europe, in cases of pulmonary consumption, and illustrating the present state of medicine in those countries.

CLARK, Sir James (1788 – 1870)
CLARK, Sir James (1788 – 1870)

Pages 153-59 contain an account of Clark's visit to the Hopital Necker in Paris, with a detailed discussion of the use of the stethoscope introduced by Laennec, one year earlier, in 1819. This was possibly the first a…