SUNY Upstate Medical University - Auricle Yearbook (Syracuse, NY)

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1. Dr. William J. Williams, Chairman 2. Dr. Murray A. Grossman 3. Dr. Donald C. Samson 4. Dr. John Zone Dr. Daniel Fuleihan 5. Dr. Rosemary Bel lino lit I M J E ■ ■ D 1 1 1 C 1 9 ! N ii E THE ORIGIN OF THE STETHOSCOPE . . . Sounds in the thorax were tradi- tionally heard by placiiKj one ' s oar directly to the patient ' s chest, a method hampered by uiiclcanlinoss, layers of fat, and patient modesty. One day in 1816, Theophilc Laennec, a French physician, was pondering the problem of an obese woman with suspected heart disease. Children were playing in the yard in front of him; he watched as one child put his ear to Uie end of a wooden beam .is anoth- er tapped the opposite end. Laennec, well acquainted with the techniques of percussion and sound transmission, hurried back to the hospital, rolled a quire of paper into a cylinder, and applied one end to his patient ' s chest and the other to his ear. Amazed to hear sounds more clearly than before, Laennec began experi- menting with many forms of this new instrument, and finally settled on a wooden cylinder about one foot long. The rest of his life was spent correla- ting his physical findings with autop- sy results until he could accurately predict disease within the chest.

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f 1. Dr. John B. Henry Dr. Allen L. Pusch Dr. Harold Peter Hawley Dr. Judith Mercer MacMath 2. Dr. Douglas A. Nelson 3. Dr. Frederick R. Davey Dr. Russell H. Tomar Dr. John B. Henry vov , auijtldM wy ovia IS titer ' H5 nctijg xn ,ia, U OMC Utai- U7LU a g iy mdf void do Uvt- ' mcst dax iac e-, , • .j Aptltc jixitnpe is ct ioltclc. f Uiims ave-y MHiHa sii yoHilUy and HOtaiHa MOtliUU

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1. 1. Dr. J. Robert Smith 2. Dr. Doreen Babott 3. Dr. Arlan J. Gottlieb 4. Dr. Frank L. Call 5. Dr. Eugene L. Lozner 6. Dr. Barbara Furie Dr. Bruce Furie 7. Dr. John J. Gullo 8. Dr. David R, Rowden Dr. Sandra J. Ginsberg Hematology 4. f m W. ' I L - Harvey ' s discovery of the circulation of the blood was a beautiful addition to our knowledge of the animal economy, but on a review of the practice of medicine before and since that epoch, I do not see any great amelioration which has been derived from that discovery. -Thomas Jefferson 7A