M0016404: Signature on an English version of a Laennec stethoscope, 19th century

Date:: September 1957

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/147/60

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      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0016341-M0016446WT/D/1/20/1/147
        M0016404: Signature on an English version of a Laennec stethoscope, 19th centuryWT/D/1/20/1/147/60

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M0016404: Signature on an English version of a Laennec stethoscope, 19th century. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced March 2022: Signature on a Laennec stethoscope, English version

Description

Photograph of a section of an English version of the Laennec stethoscope showing the signature. The stethoscope is similar to that illustrated by Forbes in the fourth edition of his transaltion of Laennec's work A treatise on the diseases of the chest and onn mediate auscultation, London: 1834. At the time the photograph was taken the stethoscope was held by Dr Brown of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Related images: M0016403

Publication/Creation

September 1957

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Notes

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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