M0014342: Four monaural stethoscopes, 19th century

Previous title, replaced January 2022: 4 Stethoscope.

Photograph of four 19th century stethoscopes. From left to right, the first is an ivory mounted telescopic stethoscope, the second was possibly designed by Hughes, the third has a rubber percussor and fourth is possibly after Williams. They were acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1936, 1940 and 1953, accession numbers (left to right): R1257/1940, R2282/1936, R20/1953, R2284/1936. They are not held by Wellcome Collection. Two are now held by the Science Museum (object numbers A75937 and A600060).

November 1955

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession registers which provide entries for the items: acc. number R1257/1940, acc. number R2282/1936 and acc. number R20/1953

Copyright held by Wellcome Collection

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.