An Ear to the Chest
Subtitle: An Illustrated History of the Evolution of the Stethoscope
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Published: December 11, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9781850702788
Subjects: History Of Medicine; Medical equipment & techniques; Precision instruments manufacture; Cardiology; Medical; Medical Instrumentation; Medical / Nursing; instrumentation; Stethoscopes; History; Instruments & Supplies; Medical / History; Auscultation; Blood Pressure Determination
First sentence: The stethoscope has come to represent the physician perhaps more than any other symbol save the shaft of Aesculapius (Figure 2).