The modern acoustic stethoscope is a useful clinical tool used to detect subtle, pathological changes in cardiac, pulmonary and vascular sounds. Currently, brand-name stethoscopes are expensive despite limited innovations in design or fabrication in recent decades. Consequently, the high cost of high quality, brand name models serves as a barrier to clinicians practicing in various settings, es...

In 1824, The London Times reported: “A wonderful instrument called the Stethoscope .. . is now in complete vogue at Paris. It is merely a hollow wooden tube, about a foot in length . .. One end is applied to the breast of the patient. The other to the ear of the physician, and according to the different sounds, harsh, hollow, soft, loud etc., he judges of the state of the disease.” It had been ...

The success of modern medicine is closely related to its ability to transcend the human senses. Technological advances such as stethoscopes, microscopes, and x rays overstep the boundaries of human perception. They enable us to see what is invisible to the unaided senses. These technologies have brought about fundamental changes to medicine-for the most part for the better. But they have also c...

Ever since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) a pandemic, it continues to trouble whole of humanity.[1] The world finds itself in state despair and exhaustion not only having deal with pandemic but also simultaneously addressing fallout social, political, economic structure. biggest brunt this catastrophe called COVID-19 is being borne by soldiers s...

What is an oration and how does one qualify for the job? Is there a correspondence course, night school or tutor available and who were those orators of the past? There have in fact been 107 Opening Addresses of this nature, the earliest in 1826, ten years after Laennec's epoch making invention of the stethoscope. Medicine" which is of interest as I stand before you as a systemic surgeon. Dr Mc...

laboratory. The highlight, in my opinion, is the space devoted to clinical correlations (stethoscope icon), which helps the student to learn histology through the perspective of pathology. Both authors are professors of pathology, and the incorporation of the clinical sections demonstrates their understanding the need and desire of most students to learn histology. In fact, I would recommend th...