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Artifact Name	Hawksley's Stethoscope / Funnel-scope
Type of Object	Stethoscope, monaural
Date of Manufacture	1873-1900
Time Period	Nineteenth century
Dimensions	7 cm. x 18.5 cm. x 6.5 cm.
Physical Details	Late monaural stethoscope with metal stem and chest piece and separate hard earpiece. The stethoscope is in two pieces to improve portability. The chest piece and stem make up one piece, which screws in to the earpiece. The earpiece is a large, flat disc, slightly concave at the interior. Fair condition, earpiece appears to have been repaired in the past. May also be used as a funnel.
Medical Subject	Stethoscopes
Accession Number	1983.45
Type	Stillimage
Format	image/jp2
Rights Management	© VCU. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 Acknowledgement of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Collection	Medical Artifacts Collection
Contributor	Tompkins-McCaw Library. Special Collections & Archives
Digital Publisher	VCU Libraries
Local genre	medical artifact

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