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Spirometer, Spalding, 1891

From the Spalding Gymnasium Equipment Catalog, 1891, page 94.  A description of its use:

Position – Face spirometer, head up, shoulders well back.

Motion – Take deep breath, place tube in mouth and blow steadily, but neither quick nor slow.

The deep inspiration exercise the inspiratory muscles and especially the diaphragm, while the expiration cause a strong contraction of the muscles of expiration. A truly fine respiratory exercise, and more valuable than is generally supposed.

Made of brass throughout, handsomely nickel-plated.  Easily repaired, as the stringing is done on the outside.

Price . . . $30.00

Spirometer, Spalding’s, 1901

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From: A manual for physical measurements for use in normal schools: public and preparatory schools, boys’ clubs, girls’ clubs, and young men’s Christian associations, with anthropometric tables for each height of each age and sex from five to twenty years, and vitality coefficients, by William Walter Hastings, Phd.  Published by the International Young Men’s Christian Association Training School, 1901. page 18.

“The pupil, after loosening the clothing about the chest and taking a full inspiration, filling the lungs completely, should blow steadily into the spirometer until all the air possible has been expelled from the lungs.  Two or three trials may be allowed.”