Bert-style cycle stethograph.

(Zirkelstethograph nach Bert.)
Description: This device, named after Claude Bernard's successor, Paul Bert, is a pliers- like apparatus that can be placed on both sides of a person's breast with a clamping device. (Expanded caption Copyright 1998, Edward J. Haupt)
(Source: Langendorff, Physiologische Graphik, p. 256.)
Source of illustration: Zimmermann, E. (1903). XVIII. Preis- Liste über psychologische und physiologische Apparate (p. 95). Leipzig: Eduard Zimmermann.

DESCRIPTORS:
Type: Component
Stimulus: Chest movement
System: Pulmonary
Output: Movement

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