Rene Laennec, 17 February 1781

Laennec 1781–1826

to synthesize, the works of their contributors. They also attempt a useful, if somewhat narrowly conceived, taxonomy of ethers and discuss some of the interesting questions raised by and about the recent historiography of the subject. On the whole, historians of science should welcome this book, which shows how far and in how many directions the discipline has travelled since E. T. Whittaker's ...

An Autograph Letter of Dr. Rene Laennec

THE Deputy Keeper of the Public Records of Northern Ireland has kindly allowed us to reproduce th,is attendance or class certificate issued by Doctor Laennec in 1826 to John Creery Ferguson (Figure 1). John Ferguson was a native of Tandragee, County Armagh. Born in 1802, he received the degree of M.B. from Trinity College, Dublin, in 1827, and became eventually the second professor of medicine ...

René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laennec (1781-1826) and the description of metastatic pulmonary melanoma.

In 19th century, the anatomo-clinical school of Paris linked clinical signs with anatomical lesions establishing clinical medicine. One of the most enlightened promoters of this method was the French physician René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laennec, known as the inventor of stethoscope. In our article, we reveal his work on pulmonary melanoma.

Lecture 5 – February 17 , 2016

This lecture is on dimensionality reduction, which aims at ‘squashing’ down the dimensionality while still preserving some geometric properties. The motivation behind this technique is that many types of data are high-dimensional, and it will be operationally much easier to manipulate these data in a lower dimension. For instance, the bag-of-words representation of documents, which treats every...

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