Stethoscope
date: label: date made
content: about 1850
notes: label: Description
content: Monaural stethoscope made of wood and ivory.
label: Description
content: In 1816, the French physician, René Théophile Hycanith Laennec, was concerned about protecting the modesty of a female patient. Because he was reluctant to touch her chest directly to ascertain her heart beat, he rolled apaper tube which he then placed on her chest to listen to her heart. Laennec later created and began using a wooden tube to listen to his patients' heartbeats.
label: Description
content: Within ten years of Laennec publishing his invention, the stethoscope had become a common diagnostic tool in Europe and the Americas.
label: Description
content: Pierre Adolphe Piorry (1794-1879), a French physician, devised this version of a monaural stethoscope in 1829.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.302606.020
label: catalog number
content: 302606.020
label: accession number
content: 302606
label: catalog number
content: 302606.020.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Stethoscope
label: Object Name
content: stethoscope
label: Object Name
content: stethoscope, monaural
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood; ivory (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 cm x 4 cm; 6 11/16 in x 1 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 6.5 cm x 3.1 cm; 2 9/16 in x 1 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 3/8 in x 2 1/8 in; 16.1925 cm x 5.3975 cm
label: Measurements
content: for exhibit: 6 1/4 in x 2 1/16 in; 15.875 cm x 5.23875 cm