Ep 151 Stethoscope: Lub dub

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Health & Fitness, Science

4.8 • 17.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

The stethoscope. It’s iconic. You’re playing Pictionary and you pull the “doctor” card? Easy - sketch a stethoscope. Need a last-minute Halloween costume? Easy - throw a stethoscope around your shoulders. Google image search “doctor” and you can count the number of stethoscope-less doctors on one hand. How did this instrument become so emblematic of the field of medicine? What can it tell us about our heart and lungs? And is its future under threat? That’s where this episode comes in. We explore the invention, evolution, and application of this tool, from the tragic life story of its inventor to the surprising amount of controversy over whether the stethoscope still holds a place in medicine today. Tune in for all this and so much more, including a doctor’s-ear perspective of the heart and lungs, complete with all the heart and lung sounds you could want! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.4	Follow Lady to Lady wherever you get your podcasts. The patient's age and sex did not permit me to resort to the kind of examination I have just described, i.e. direct application of the ear to the
0:56.1	chest. I recalled a well-known acoustic phenomenon. If you place your ear against one end of a wood beam, the scratch of a pin at the other end is distinctly audible.
1:09.0	It occurred to me that this physical property might serve a useful purpose in the case I was dealing with.
1:15.0	I then tightly rolled a sheet of paper, one end of which I placed over the precordium and my
1:20.5	ear to the other.
1:22.0	I was surprised and elated to be able to hear the beating of her
1:25.9	heart with far greater clearness than I ever had with direct application of my ear.
1:33.0	I immediately saw that this might become an indispensable method for studying,
1:38.1	not only the beating of the heart, but all movements able of producing sound in the chest cavity. Oh, no, no.
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