Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.10899

    Stethoscope cup for auscultation

    Date
    1859
    Creator
    Somerville Scott Alison (1813 - 1877, British) , Physician
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    Dimensions
    height (drawing): 180mm
    width (drawing): 112mm
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    Description
    Sketch of a stethoscope cup for medical teaching purposes, allowing the connection of multiple rubber tubes for simultaneous listening to body sounds.

    Captioned below: “Receiving cup for six persons. For the use of the partially deaf, & for teaching auscultation to a class.”

    Unpublished figure (not numbered) from the manuscript paper “The intensification of sound through solid bodies by the interposition of water between them & the distal extremity of hearing tubes”, by Somerville Scott Alison. Abstracted in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, vol.9 (1857-1859), pp.649-651. Not signed.

    Somerville Scott Alison (1813-1877) was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and an expert on diseases of the heart and lungs.
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