Tuberculosis diagnosis,19th century. Artwork showing the French physician Rene Laennec (1781-1826),at the Necker Hospital,Paris,France,examining a patient (left,in bed) with consumption (tuberculosis) in front of his students. At the time,this disease was invariably fatal. This scene was the subject of a wall painting (mural) by French painter Theobald Chartran (1849-1907),located at the Sorbonne,Paris,France. The original artwork or scene dates from Laennec's 1819 work 'De l'Auscultation Mediate' |