Stethoscope Collection

Female Medical Students
Under the watchful eye of the House Physician, a group of female medical students, trainee doctors, examine a patient at the Royal Free Hospital, Hampstead, London

The Harley-Scope Mine-Detector by William Heath Robinson
A crackpot invention dreamed up Heath Robinson, allowing a British machine to suspend a stethoscope wearing doctor over the ground, in an attempt to locate the snug dug outs of the German enemy

Doctor Examines a Child
A mother takes her little girl to a female doctor for a routine examination. She sits on the doctors knee

Rene-Theophile-Hyacinthe Laennec, French physician
Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec, French physician, inventor of the stethoscope in 1816 at the Hopital Necker in Paris, where he was working at the time. Seen here using a stethoscope on a patient

Comic postcard, Little girl at the doctors Date: 20th century

Children at Brompton Hospital
Page from The Illustrated London News reporting on the increase in parents being allowed to spend as much time as possible with their children in hospital

Satirical cartoon on German army recruitment, WW1
A satirical cartoon by the German artist George Grosz on German army recruitment, showing a doctor examining a decaying skeleton to see if it is fit for military service

Medical Examination 1940
A doctor examines a little boys chest with his stethoscope during a visit to a Toddlers Evacuation Hotel, where he caused quite a stir amongst curious tots!

Comic postcard, Man visiting the doctor Date: 20th century

Comic German postcard -- health spa doctor and patient
Comic German postcard by Franz Whonpfeng -- the doctor at a health spa examines a grossly overweight female patient. Date: 1909

Old Maid card - Doctor. circa 1940s

Happy Familes Playing Cards - Mr Pill the Doctor. circa 1935

Checking Heartbeat
A doctor listens to a patients heart Date: 1960s

Laennec, Rene-Theophile-Hyacinthe (1781-1826). French physician inventor of the stethoscope. Oil

Child in a Russian Kindergarden Hospital
A nurse using a stethoscope in a Middle Asian Republic (eastern Russia) Kindergarden to check up on the health of a small child. Date: 1930 s

Doctor and Nurse
A doctor sits at his desk taking an appointment over the phone with a nurse looking at it over his shoulder. Date: late 1960s

The Doctor
People You See. From Teddy Bear (18 April 1964)

Browns Stethoscope
(above) Bowles stethoscope (below) Haydn Browns Binaural Stethoscope [This catalogue contains 2000 pages of medical equipment] Date: 1930

Nurse, doctor and patient at the Medical Centre, Hendon
Scene at the Metropolitan Police Medical Centre, Hendon, north west London, with a nurse (probably matron) and a doctor attending to a patient

Doctor with stethoscope examines boy
A general practitioner (Dr Meredith) listens with his stethoscope to a boys chest in a rather unconventional looking surgery with tapestries on the walls

Doctor Examines Baby
A doctor examines a baby at a dispensary

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