Stethoscope
date: label: associated dates
content: 1976 09 10 / 1976 09 10
notes: label: Description
content: Flared wooden monaural stethoscope.
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: This stethoscope may have belonged to Dr. Augustus Alexander Clewell (1845-1911), who was originally from Salem, North Carolina, but practiced medicine in Baltimore for thirty years.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
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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.302606.019
label: accession number
content: 302606
label: catalog number
content: 302606.019
label: catalog number
content: M-14148
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: Measurements
content: overall: 17 cm x 5.1 cm; 6 11/16 in x 2 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 7/8 in x 2 in; 17.4625 cm x 5.08 cm