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Auenbrugger [Edler von Auenbrugg], Leopold

Graz
1722

Vienna
1809

Degrees:
Career: Auenbrugger studied medicine in Vienna and worked as physician in the Spanisches Spital from 1751 until 1762. In 1762, he founded his own doctor’s office in Vienna and received the knighthood in 1784 from Emperor Kaiser Josef II. He is said to be the discoverer of the Perkussionsmethode, regarding the differences among acoustic noise when hitting the chest wall.
Selected works: Auenbrugger, Leopold. 1761. Inventum novum ex percussione thoracis humani ut signo abstrusos interni pectoris morbos detegendi. Wien: Trattner
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