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Skin cancer medicine in primary care: towards an agenda for quality health outcomes
Author(s) -
Stitz Russell,
Kidd Michael R,
Kenny Liz M,
Howard Anne M
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2006.tb00218.x
Subject(s) - citation , library science , medicine , ophthalmology , history , management , law , political science , computer science , economics
In 1824, The London Times reported: “A wonderful instrument called the Stethoscope .. . is now in complete vogue at Paris. It is merely a hollow wooden tube, about a foot in length . .. One end is applied to the breast of the patient. The other to the ear of the physician, and according to the different sounds, harsh, hollow, soft, loud etc., he judges of the state of the disease.” It had been 10 years since its invention by the French physician, René Laënnec, and the stethoscope was widely in use in France. Elsewhere, there was resistance. It was argued that the stethoscope came between the patient and doctor and threatened the time-honoured art of laying the ear upon the chest.