Back-to-the-land Healthcare
and Childbirth

Pinard

A type of stethoscope used to listen to the heart rate of a fetus during pregnancy. The pinard was widely used by midwives in Southern Humboldt until the arrival of the Doppler and the fetoscope. 

Midwives collection. Item provided by Lily Aquarian.
Photograph in the Humboldt Area Peoples Archive.