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JAMA. 1970;213(3):456-457.

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Henri Roger, student of auscultation and the first physician to present a comprehensive description of asymptomatic interventricular septal defect, was born, studied, and spent his professional life in the city of Paris.¹ He began his internship in the city hospitals in 1833, received a gold medal for scholarship three years later, and presented his doctoral thesis in 1839 on auscultation and the significance of rales in the diagnosis of diseases of the chest. This was recast as the first chapter of a monograph, prepared jointly with Barth, entitled Traite Pratique d'Auscultation, which went through several French and one English edition.

Following graduation, Roger joined the Central Bureau of hospitals but his interest lay in academic medicine. In 1847, he received professional standing but never achieved departmental headship, since a chair of pediatrics had not been established. He served on the staff of the Institute for Foundling Children and later . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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