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Artifact Name	Binaural Stethoscope
Type of Object	Stethoscope, binaural
Manufacturer	C. P. Pilling
Place of Manufacture	Philadelphia (Pa.)
Date of Manufacture	1920-1950
Time Period	Twentieth century
Dimensions	2 cm. x 30 cm. x 7 cm.
Physical Details	Binaural stethoscope with rubber connective units. The earpieces are a hard plasticine material, connected to two steel tubes which are attached by a thin, bowed, flexible strip of steel. The earpieces hook to a Y-connector, also made of steel and with leather attachments, which then hooks to a chestpiece made of steel. The rubber is badly degraded and extremely stiff.
Medical Subject	Stethoscopes
Accession Number	1982.101f
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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