Found in ‘Results of Internal Medicine and Paediatrics : Sixty-fourth Volume Part One’, edited by M. v. Pfaundler and A. Schittenhelm, 1943, page 58, published 1944, in a chapter translated as “The Respiratory Physiological Effects of Different Body Positions”.
Category Archives: Gas meter
Verdin Spirometer, 1920
Found on Pinterest. Labeled as “Le spiromètre métallique de Verdin, 1920.” Posted by Françoise Soros.
Douglas Bag and Verdin Spirometer, 1920
Found on Pinterest. Labeled as “Analysis of exhaled air during an exercise with Waller’s device, 1920.” Although the spirometer is not labeled, it looks like the Verdin spirometer which was based on a gas meter. Posted by Françoise Soros.
Verdin Spirometer, 1913
Found on the Biusante web site. Image reference med111620x04x0175. Attributed to the Physical Education and Sports Exhibition: Paris, March 17-26, 1913, Faculty of Medicine and Street of the School of Medicine.
Measuring gas exchange, 1911
Using a Chauveau valve, the subject’s exhaled volume is measured by a gas meter and analyzed for CO2 and O2 chemically. Found in “The Human Motor, Or, The Scientific Foundations of Labour and Industry” by Jules Amar, Elsie Mary Butterworth, George E. Wright, published by G. Routledge & sons, Limited, 1920, page 145, but was ascribed to Jules Amar, Journal de Physiologie, March 1911, page 212.
Tissot, Exercise Testing
A Tissot spirometer (probably 125 liter) used for exercise testing. The subject is inhaling through a gas meter and exhaling into the Tissot spirometer while riding a Monark exercise bicycle. From a University of Texas of the Permian Basin college course synopsis on exercise physiology.
Spirometer, Calais 62100, circa 1960’s
A gas meter-type spirometer. Labeled as a Calais 62100. No date but likely from the 1960’s. Found on a Leboncoin listing.
Spirometer, Alexander Wright & Co., circa 1930
Gas meter type. Measurements: length 460 mm; width 410 mm; height 460 mm. Found on Science Museum Group Online Collections.
Spirometer, R.B.S., 1934
From H. Brodard Medical and Surgical Instruments Catalog No. 10, 1934, page 52. Described as a spirometer from the design of R.B.S., 7 liters. At a guess it is a gas meter type.