title: The stethoscope: some preliminary investigations.
abstract: Textbooks, clinicians, and medical teachers differ as to whether the stethoscope bell or diaphragm should be used for auscultating respiratory sounds at the chest wall. Logic and our results suggest that stethoscope diaphragms are more appropriate.
authors.affiliation: Department of Infectious Diseases, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK. p.welsby@ed.ac.uk
authors.forename: P D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Welsby
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Parry
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D001314:Auscultation / Q000266:history / Q000379:methods*; D004867:Equipment Design; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D012135:Respiratory Sounds; D019023:Stethoscopes / Q000266:history / Q000592:standards; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods