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Artifact Name	Wooden monaural stethoscope
Type of Object	Stethoscope, monaural
Date of Manufacture	1819-1858
Time Period	Nineteenth century
Dimensions	4 cm. x 18 cm. x 4 cm.
Physical Details	Early wooden monaural stethoscope in two pieces. Chestpiece is 3.5cm in diameter and has a cone shaped end which fits flush with the tube and earpiece, and can be removed for more or less resonant sound of heartbeat. The tube is wide at the proximal end to accommodate the insertion of the chestpiece, and tapers in narrowly towards the distal end, where a circular, slightly convex earpiece is fitted. Earpiece has brown marking, "1.50" likely a price. Wood appears to be cedar.
Medical Subject	Stethoscopes; Diagnostic Equipment; Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures -- instrumentation
Accession Number	1983.94
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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