- Subject
- Anaesthetics
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Maws
- Provenance
- Transferred from the Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, John Radcliffe Hospital
- Object type
- Inhaler
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 88mm Height: 170mm Weight: 650g
- Inventory No
- 10304
- Accession Number
- 1998-7
Description
Clover inhaler with half-metal, half-transparent chamber. Glass dome with a metal base and a metal cylinder running through it. The top of the cylinder has an arm extending from it with a claw and valve on one end. There is a white crystalline accretion on the inside of the dome, which may be left from the ether.
Invented in 1877 by Joseph Thomas Clover (1825 -- 1882).
