M0014337: Four stethoscopes, all appear to be modified versions of Billings, with solid conical earpieces, 19th century

Date:
November 1955
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WT/D/1/20/1/128/20
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M0014337: Four stethoscopes, all appear to be modified versions of Billings, with solid conical earpieces, 19th century. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced January 2022: Stethoscopes, all appear to be modified versions of Billings, with solid conical earpieces.

Description

Photograph of four 19th century monaural stethoscopes. They were acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1926 and 1936, accession numbers (left to right): R2319/1936, R2306/1936, R27133 and R2261/1936. They are not held by Wellcome Collection. Three are held by the Science Museum (object numbers A625021, A608224 and A608218)

Publication/Creation

November 1955

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

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Wellcome Collection holds the accession registers which provide entries for the items: acc. number R2261/1936, acc. number R2306/1936, acc. number R2319/1936 and acc. number R27133

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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.

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