1977-2-1 - Laennec type stethoscope

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1977-2-1 - Laennec type stethoscope

Long wooden Laennec stethoscope. His kind was the first true stethoscope, which were used until the later part of the Nineteenth century. The stethoscope can be separated into two parts by pulling apart from the central portion of the cylinder.

Catalogue

Reference Number: MIMM/1977-2-1

Date: 1800-1850

Creator Name: Laennec, René Théophile Hyacinthe, 1781-1826; physician

Copyright: Free to use under the terms of the Creative Commons Licence Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Credit Line: Royal College of Physicians of Ireland

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