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The Stethoscope Song: A Professional Ballad by One of America’s Earliest Physician-Writers Cover

The Stethoscope Song: A Professional Ballad by One of America’s Earliest Physician-Writers

Methodist DeBakey Cardiovascular Journal
Volume 21 (2025): Issue 3
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Open Access
|May 2025
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Image 1

Monaural stethoscope made of wood and ivory. Pierre Adolphe Piorry (1794-1879), a French physician, devised this form in 1829. Gift of The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland, National Museum of American History, online at https://americanhistory.si.edu/.

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William Baxter Closson, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Transfer from the National Museum of American History, Division of Graphic Arts, Smithsonian Institution, 1971.169.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14797/mdcvj.1571 | Journal eISSN: 1947-6108
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Language: English
Page range: 109 - 113
Submitted on: Jan 22, 2025
Accepted on: Jan 22, 2025
Published on: May 15, 2025
Published by: Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Keywords:
medical humanities,
Oliver Wendell Holmes,
physician-writers

© 2025 Justin C. Cordova, James B. Young, published by Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License.

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