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Clover Portable Regulating Ether Inhaler with Hewitt Modification

Inventory Number 10467


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.10467

Item type
Object
Provenance
Transferred from the Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, John Radcliffe Hospital.
Physical material
Metal
Rubber
Object type
Inhaler
Dimensions
Height: 107mm Width: 235mm Depth: 252mm Weight: 778g
Inventory No
10467
Accession Number
1998-7

Description

Clover inhaler modified by widening the bore of the delivery tube and making it rotate inside the vaporizer. Two tube openings with rubber orange mask and rubber black mask attached. Sticker residue on side. Inscribed on inhaler 'Geo Barth & Co 54 Poland Street London'.