show case c: Monaural stethoscopes

1. Goblet shape interior: c. 1840, stethoscope;
(a, b) two sizes of Pinard’s wooden fetal heart
sound stethoscopes, c. 1900–1920, and a very
long one: the “pauper’s” (Dr. Boris Pliskin,
Tel Aviv)* that allows some distance from the
patient (very smelly ones such as paupers or
ones with active tuberculosis).
2. Fruitwood, Grumbridge: c. 1840, stethoscope.
3. Fruitwood composition monaural stethoscope:
c. 1850.
4. Composition monaural stethoscopes: c. 1900,
vulcanized rubber (“Bakelite").
4a. A similar monaural stethoscope: c. 1900,
promoting “Salicylopyrin Motopyrin
Phennin: Motor .”
5. Two composition monaural Hawksley’s metal
and rare aluminum stethoscopes, c. 1900.