Editing René Laennec (section)

==Early life==
Laennec was born in [[Quimper, Brittany|Quimper]] ([[Brittany]]). His mother died of tuberculosis when he was five years old, and he went to live with his great-uncle the [[Abbé]] Laennec (a priest).<ref>{{cite book |last=McCallum |first=Jack Edward |year=2008 |title=Military Medicine: From Ancient Times to the 21st Century |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=9781851096930 |page=185 |language=en |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5BXB9QtUfFQC&q=Abb%C3%A9%20Laennec&pg=PA185}}</ref> As a child, Laennec became ill with [[fatigue (medical)|lassitude]] and repeated instances of [[fever|pyrexia]]. Laennec was also thought to have [[asthma]].<ref name=Roguin-2006-09/> At the age of twelve, he proceeded to [[Nantes]], where his uncle, Guillaime-François Laennec, worked in the faculty of medicine at the university. Laennec was a gifted student.

His father (a lawyer) later discouraged him from continuing as a doctor and René then had a period of time where he took long walks in the country, danced, studied Greek, and wrote poetry. However, in 1799 he returned to study. Laennec studied medicine at the [[University of Paris]] under several famous physicians, including [[Dupuytren]] and [[Jean-Nicolas Corvisart|Jean-Nicolas Corvisart-Desmarets]]. There he was trained to use sound as a diagnostic aid. Corvisart advocated the re-introduction of [[percussion (medicine)|percussion]] during the [[French Revolution]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Gabbay |first=John |year=1989 |title=Clinical medicine in revolution: 2: Fusion in the crucible |jstor=29704703 |journal=British Medical Journal |volume=299 |issue=6692 |pages=166–169 |doi=10.1136/bmj.299.6692.166 |pmc=1837051 |pmid=2504361}}</ref>