Ferguson Stethoscope

Dr. John Creey Ferguson was an Irish physician educated at Trinity College and The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. His close friend in Dublin was Dr. William Stokes, who was an expert on auscultation and wrote a text on stethoscopy while just a medical student! Dr. Ferguson spent one year in Paris studying with Laennec and Kergradec to learn the use of the stethoscope, most especially for fetal auscultation. In 1830, Dr. Ferguson published his classic treatis on "Auscultation the only unequivical evidence of preganancy" in the Dublin Medical Transactions (the only issue of this journal ever published). Dr. Ferguson was noted for his advocacy of using the stethoscope for fetal auscultation. He eventually became the First Professor of Medicine at Queens University.