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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, from which "any turner will be able to make the instrument."
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