Percussion hammer

Percussion--Equipment and supplies

Chest--Examination--Equipment and supplies

Diagnosis--Equipment and supplies

Percussion--instrumentation

Diagnostic Equipment

Diagnostic

Image 101-1604

Used to listen to the heart by tapping on the chest in conjunction with a pleximeter

Has a flexible whalebone handle with a one-ounce metal head.

Vernon, Henry

Health Sciences Library

State University of New York at Buffalo

Mid-19th cent.

Wessex (Firm)

Cravens, Annette

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13 cm.

Percussor

Image

Still image

94.2.1

LIB-HSL001

Hammer

9/28/2009

Whalebone and metal