Traditional Stethoscope Doctor's Tie - Blue

Give a great tie, and enough anecdotes about the Stethoscope to fill uneasy pauses in numerous conversations. The stethoscope was invented in 1816 when a young French physician named Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec was examining a young female patient. Laennec was embarrassed to place his ear to her chest ( Immediate Auscultation ), which was the method of auscultation used by physicians at that time. He remembered a trick he learned as a child that sound travels through solids and thus he rolled up 24 sheets of paper, placed one end to his ear and the other end to the woman's chest. He was delighted to discover that the sounds were not only conveyed through the paper cone, but they were also loud and clear. The first recorded manuscript documenting auscultation using the stethoscope ( Mediate Auscultation ) was in March 8, 1817, when Laennec noted examining a Marie-Melanie Basset, who was 40 years old. Laennec preferred to have his instrument simply called "Le Cylindre," as he thought naming such a fundamental instrument was unnecessary. He became remorse at the names it was being given by his colleagues and decided that if it should be called anything, it should be "Stethoscope," which is derived from the Greek words for 'I see' and 'the chest.' Laennec was a skilled wood turner and set up a small shop in his home with a wood-turning lathe and stocked different types of wood.. He created a stethoscope from a turned piece of wood with hollow bore in the center. It was made of two pieces. One end had a hole to place against the ear and the other end was hollowed out into a funnel shaped cone. There was a plug that fit into this cone which had a hollow brass tube placed inside it. This plug was put in the funnel shaped end ot the stethoscope to listen to the heart, and removed to examine the lungs. Laennec published his classic treatise on mediate auscultation in 1819 in which he discussed mediate auscultation and illustrated the design of the stethoscope. A second edition was published in 1826, just after Laennec died from the very diseases he spent long hours studying with the aid of his stethoscope, Tuberculosis. The stethoscope was described as being 12 inches long and 1.5 inches in diameter with a 3/8 inch central bore hole throughout its length. His stethoscope could be bought for 2 francs along with the purchase of the Treatise on Mediate Auscultation. http://www.emsmuseum.org/virtual-museum/by_era/articles/398118-1816-The-Stethoscope