Necker–Enfants Malades Hospital

The Necker–Enfants Malades Hospital is a teaching hospital in Paris. The Necker Hospital started in 1778 and in 1920 it joined with the Sick Children's Hospital (Hôpital des Enfants Malades), the oldest children's hospital in the Western world, founded in 1801. which was next to it. At first it was run by the Catholic Sisters of Charity. The French physician René Laennec invented the stethoscope in 1816 while he was working there. References