From The Esoteric, Volume 3, Number 12, Advertising page at the front of the issue. There is no explanation how this device worked. At a guess, it appears as if the balance arm was placed in front of an individual’s lips and they blew on it.
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Spirometer, 1907, with breathing mask and one-way valves
From: German archive for clinical medicine , Volume 88, 1907, Page 391. Note the breathing mask and one-way valves. Note also the pen writing on graph paper which was apparently moved horizontally by a screw. Manufacturer unknown.
Spirometer, 1907
From: Hygiene of the lung in health and disease, by Leopold Schrötter (ritter von Kristelli), published by Rebman, 1907, page 12. Likely a dry spirometer, manufacturer was not named.
Spirometer, Hutchinson, 1910
From: Practical Physiology, Edited by M.S. Pembrey, Published by Longmans, Green and Co., NY, 1910, page 178. Hutchinson’s spirometer still in use, essentially unchanged, over 60 years after his 1846 publication.
Spirometer, 1908
From: Handbuch der Physiologischen Methodik, by Robert Tigerstedt, published by Verlag von S. Hirzel, Leipzig, 1908, page 28. Described as a Hutchinson spirometer.
Spirometer, 1865, G. Simon
From: Die chronische Lungenschwindsucht ist heilbar, By Philipp Jochheim, 1865, page 17. Spirometer attributed to Dr. G. Simon.
Spirometer, 1848
Über die Menge der ausgeathmeten Luft bei verschiedenen Menschen und ihre Messung durch das Spirometer: ein Beitrag zur medicinischen Diagnostik : mit 1 Abbildung by Gustav Simon and Julius Vogel, 1848, endplate. Spirometer manufacturer unknown.
This book was printed two years after Hutchinson’s treatise on the spirometer and the vital capacity and his design has already been modified.
Manometer, 1895
From: Denison, Charles. Exercise and food for pulmonary invalids. Chain & Hardy, 1895, page 26. Intended for expiratory pressure measurements only.
Spirometry, 1850
From: Die Erkenntniß der Krankheiten der Brustorgane aus physikalischen Zeiche n oder Auscultation, Percussion und Spirometrie: Nach Heribert Davie’s Vorlesungen u. eigenen Beobachtungen by Johann Friedrich Hermann Albers, 1850. Endplate.
Notably, this book was published only 4 years after Hutchinson’s treatise on the vital capacity yet his original design for the spirometer appears to have already been modified. The developer of this spirometer was not named in the text.
Spirometer, Coxeter’s, 1861
From: The physical examination of the chest in pulmonary consumption and its intercurrent diseases by Somerville Scott Alison. 1861. Page 351.
“This instrument differs from Hutchinson’s in principal, and possesses the advantage of equal accuracy, great portability and comparative cheapness. It consists of two bags, one acting as a reservoir for expired air, and the other as a measure. The air is first expired into the larger back supplied with stopcocks to retain it. The next step is to pass seriatim the air into the measure bag, and to calculate the amount. The second bag can contain from 40 to 50 cubic inches, and it is to be filled from time to time, till the whole amount is measured. This instrument only costs 26s., and Mr. Coxeter I understand, has very recently improved it.”