Defunct negative-pressure mechanically functioning respirator

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( ?).

1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 14.8 x 19.6 cm

Medicine machines. Part 4, The iron lung.

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