- Subject
- Anaesthetics
- Item type
- Object
- Provenance
- From the Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, John Radcliffe Hospital.
- Inventory No
- 10495
- Accession Number
- 1998-7
Description
Ether vaporizer (originally with gutta-percha insulation) and other parts of McKesson model G (no stand).
Comprising of two rubber bladders in a net attached to a copper alloy apparatus and a separate metal cylinder with 5 holes in the bottom and a glass window at the other end.
Used for nitrous oxide & oxygen & ether.
Inventor in 1912 by Elmer Isaac McKesson and manufactured in 1920.
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See references.
