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TitleDocteur Laennec (199?)
Alternative/Original Title
DisabilityGeneral tuberculosis
CountryFrance
Length98
GenreBiography
Rating?
DirectorCloche, Maurice
CastPierre Blanchar
NotesColour and B/W. True story of a doctor in early nineteenth century France who devotes himself to the care of patients dying during an epidemic of tuberculosis. He invents an early stethoscope but himself dies of the disease. Apparently there is reasonable historical accuracy.

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