Pneumotherapy apparatus, 1891

Pneumotherapy_1891

From: A system of Practical Therapeutics, edited by Hobart Amory Hare, MD and Walter Chrystie, MD.  Chapter on Tuberculosis by Solomon Solis-Cohen, MD, 1891, page 796.

Although a creation of the chapter’s author, this apparatus (modified from a water-seal spirometer) is based on the ideas of Waldenburg and was used to treat patient with tuberculosis.

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