From: Anthropometric apparatus: with directions for measuring and testing the principal physical characteristics of the human body. Illustrated. By Dudley Allen Sargent, 1887, Page 12. Manufacturer unkown, possibly a Barnes Spirometer.
Category Archives: 1880s
Spirometer, Modified Hutchinson, 1888
| From: The Diseases of the Chest: Including the Principal Affections of the Pleurae, Lungs, Pericardium, Heart, and Aorta by Vincent Dormer, 1888, page 117. Manufacturer and particulars unknown. |
Spirometer, Verdin, 1880
From a powerpoint presentation entitled “A la decouverte … du souffle” by Jean-Francois Dessanges. The title translates approximately as “the discovery was breathless”.
Spirometer, Schnitzler’s Double Apparatus for Compressed Air, 1885
In In the late 1800’s compressed or rarified air was proposed as a treatment for respiratory diseases by Dr. Waldenburg. This apparatus is based on Dr. Waldenburg’s original device and is a modification of the Hutchinson spirometer. From The Inhalation Treatment of the organs of respiration including Consumption. By Arthur Hill Hassal, MD. 1885. In the text of the book Dr. Hassal indicates that this treatment has been found harmful to patients.
Spirometer, Schnitzler’s Single Apparatus for Compressed Air, 1885
In the late 1800’s compressed or rarified air was proposed as a treatment for respiratory diseases by Dr. Waldenburg. This apparatus is based on Dr. Waldenburg’s original device and is a modification of the Hutchinson spirometer. From The Inhalation Treatment of the organs of respiration including Consumption. By Arthur Hill Hassal, MD. 1885. In the text of the book Dr. Hassal indicates that this treatment has been found harmful to patients.
Spirometer, Rattray, 1882
From Lancet, Dec 28 1872, page 915. A combined spirometer, aspiratory and aeroscope”, Alexander Rattray, MD. “For stability and economy of space the cylinders are square; the inner of the thinnest – i.e. lightest – sheet zinc, 6 x 6 in. wide, 13 in. high and accurately counterpoised by weights of lead covered by brass or copper, hanging by 24 in. long silk or catgut cords over two pulley tipped 1/4 in. brass rods, 14 in. long, placed at opposite corners. The breathing tube, 1 in. in diameter and 28 in. long with an ebony or ivory mouth piece, should be attached to the center of the inner cylinder, either by a simple or screw attachment.”
Pneumograph, Marey, 1883
Etienne-Jules Marey’s device is a small diaphragm (tambour) responsive to pressure. The apparatus amplified the motion of the tambour. Respiration was then recorded on a kymograph.
From Experimental Pharmacology. A hand book. Methods for studying the physiological actions of drugs. By Ludimarr Hermann and Robert Meade Smith. Copyright 1883.
Spirometer, 1888
From The Movements of Respiration and their innervation in the Rabbit. By Max Markwald, MD, 1988. Page 17
Spirometer, Shepard, 1885
A water seal spirometer with a direct reading scale on a rod attached to the bell.
Spirometer, Rattray, 1880
A square version of the Hutchinson Spirometer. From A. Rattray. Description of a new spirometer. Pacific Medical Journal. 1880. Volume 23, No. 1, page 17.