Journal of Medical Biography > Volume 16, Number 2 > Pp. 66-71

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Physicians

The tale of an old stethoscope: from Mr Bampton (1816–65) to the British Thoracic Society

John Earis   and Helen Earis 

Correspondence: Dr John Earis, MD FRCP FRCP(I), Consultant Physician, University Hospital Aintree, Lower Lane, Liverpool L9 7AL, UK (email: J.E.Earis{at}liverpool.ac.uk)

The stethoscope has long been a powerful symbol of the physician. This article describes a stethoscope that was presented as a prize to an outstanding student, Mr Bampton, by his eminent teacher Dr James Hope (1801–41) in 1837. The extraordinary journey of this prize stethoscope that eventually found its way to North Wales and into the hands of the Liverpool physician, Robert Coope (1892–1972), is outlined. Its subsequent importance and symbolism to the Thoracic Society and the British Thoracic Society is emphasized.

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