An lung exercise device, design attributed to Dr. J. Pescher. From a 1933 Guillot Medical Supply Catalog found on the Bibliotheque Interuniversitaire du Sante website.
Monthly Archives: November 2014
Mask and Manometer, 1935
From Medecine Chirugie, a medical equipment supply catalog, from Fernand Guillot, Paris, France, 1935, page 12. Used to measure inspiratory and expiratory pressures.
Spirometer (gas meter), Boulitte
Found on a French website best translated as “Collectors Club”. A Boulitte gas meter used as a spirometer. Undated, but probably from between 1920 and 1940.
Spirometer, circa 1930
Found on the Boerhaave Museum of the Netherlands website. Inventory Number V29549. Height 110 cm, width 32 cm, depth 30 cm. Manufacturer unknown, manufactured between 1925 and 1950. Given its style, I’d say closer to 1925 than 1950.
Respirometer, E. Zimmerman, circa 1910
Found on the Boerhaave Museum of the Netherlands website. Inventory Number V19429. Attributed to E. Zimmerman. Height 46 cm, width 20 cm, depth 25 cm. A somewhat unusual design since there appears to be 2 taps underneath the spirometer. How they connect to the interior of the spirometer and how they were used is unclear. The museum places it between 1900 and 1925 and it is likely from around 1910 since that is the time E. Zimmerman was known to be constructing spirometers.
Spirometer, circa 1910
Found on the Boerhaave Museum of the Netherlands website. Inventory number V22461. Manufacturer is unknown. Its height was given as 27 cm and diameter as 31 cm. The website says it was from 1900-1925. Given the style of the spirometer I would guess it’s closer to 1900 than 1925.
Respiration Calorimeter, 1902, Atwater & Benedict
From “Experiments on the metabolism of matter and energy in the human body, 1900-1902”. US Department of Agriculture, Office of Experiment Stations – Bulletin No. 136, by W.O. Atwater and F.G. Benedict, frontispiece.
The respiration chamber was an open-circuit design. Carefully conditioned room air was drawn into the chamber and then evacuated through soda-lime canisters. The chamber was carefully insulated and kept at a constant temperature by circulating water.
Respiration Calorimeter, 1915, front view
From “A respiration calorimeter for the study of disease”, by Abraham Lisk, a chapter of “Clinical Calorimetry”, published by the Russel Sage Institute of Pathology, 1915, page 24.
Soda Lime Bottle, 1915
From “A respiration calorimeter for the study of disease”, by Abraham Lisk, a chapter of “Clinical Calorimetry”, published by the Russel Sage Institute of Pathology, 1915, page 21
Respiration Calorimeter, 1915
From “A respiration calorimeter for the study of disease”, by Abraham Lisk, a chapter of “Clinical Calorimetry”, published by the Russel Sage Institute of Pathology, 1915, page 19.