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An iron lung, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London: a patient inside a Drinker respirator, attended to by a nurse and a doctor. Photograph, ca. 1930( ?).
Lettering: Life saving machine. Using the Drinker machine, an American invention at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, which can bring persons to life after the heart has failed by compelling them to breathe even when vitality has w[s]unk to its lowest ebb.
Type of item
- Photographic prints
Type of item
- Photographic prints
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Rights
- Credit: Wellcome Collection
Creation date
- 1930
- 1930
Source
- V0030868
Identifier
- V0030868
- b1565883
- Iconographic Collection 565883i
- qyduyarc
Year
- 1930
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2019-06-09T11:49:07.076Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2019-06-09T11:49:07.076Z