Dual earpiece, teaching stethoscope, circa 1960s

Dual earpiece, teaching stethoscope, circa 1960s

Medical instruments

This teaching stethoscope has one chest piece and two sets of binaural joined together to allow two people to listen simultaneously.

circa 1960s

Peter Bent Brigham Hospital records, 1830– (inclusive), 1911–1980 (bulk). BWH c3. Harvard Medical Library, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Boston, Mass.

physical object

From a collection of instruments used for training nurses donated to the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Archives by the family of Shirley Egan, Director of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital School of Nursing, 1979–1985.