M0014340: Five monaural stethoscopes, 19th century

Previous title, replaced January 2022: 4 Stethoscopes.

Photograph of five 19th century stethoscopes. From left to right, the first is a funnel-shaped stethoscope lined with brass, the third is possibly French and the fifth was possibly desined by Stokes. They were acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1936, 1940, 1941 and 1955 and given accession numbers (left to right): R1264/1940, R2311/1936, R88/1955, R101/1941 and R96/1955. The second and fourth microscopes are now held by the Science Museum (object numbers A625010 and A198334).

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 R1264/1940, acc. number R2311/1936, acc. number R88/1955, acc. number R101/1941 and acc. number R96/1955

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.