M0017194: Illustration of a method of artificial respiration by rolling a man prone on a barrel

Previous title, replaced March 2022: Artificial respiration by rolling a man prone on a barrel.

Two illustrations outlining the "barrel method" of artificial respiration, published in Keith, Arthur: Three Hunterian lectures on the mechanism underlying the various methods of artificial respiration practised since the foundation of the Royal Humane Society in 1774 : delivered in the Theatre of the Royal College of Surgeons of England on March 1st, 3rd, and 5th, 1909, London: 1909

February 1959

1 photograph sheet film negative; 9.5 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds a digital copy the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

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