Stethoscope
date: label: date made
content: about 1865
label: associated dates
content: 1976 09 10 / 1976 09 10
name: label: user
content: Morgan, Wilbur Phelps
notes: label: Description
content: Carved wooden monaural stethoscope. The truncated tube flares into a bell to form the chest piece. This instrument was used by Wilbur P. Morgan (1841-1922). It was presented to the The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland by Dr. George Duane, (1896-1939). A small notice appeared in the Boston medical and Surgical Journal (July-Dec. 1878) regarding an elastic adhesive plaster that Dr. Morgan developed, and used for cases of psoriasis and open wounds, and claimed it to be very satisfactory.
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: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
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.302606.002
label: accession number
content: 302606
label: catalog number
content: 302606.002
label: catalog number
content: M-14131
objectType: label: Object Name
content: stethoscope
label: Object Name
content: stethoscope, monaural
label: Other Terms
content: Ascultation Instruments; Monaural
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: carved (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16.2 cm x 4.5 cm; 6 3/8 in x 1 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 5/8 in x 1 3/4 in; 16.8275 cm x 4.445 cm