1 Unit 1 Biomedical Engineering Lesson 1 A History of Biomedical Engineering In its broadest sense , biomedical engineering has been with us for centuries, perhaps even thousands of years
In 2000, German archeologists uncover a 3,000—year-old mummy from Thebes with a wooden prosthetic tied to its foot to serve as a big toe
Researchers said the wear on the bottom surface suggests that it could be the oldest known limb prosthesis
Egyptians also used hollow reeds to look and listen to the internal goings on of the human anatomy
In 1816, modesty prevented French physician Rene Laennec from placing his ear next to a young woman's bare chest, so he rolled up a newspaper and listened through it, triggering the idea for his invention that led to today’s ubiquitous stethoscope
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