- Subject
- Anaesthetics
- Item type
- Object
- Provenance
- From the Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, John Radcliffe Hospital.
- Object type
- Vaporizer
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 230mm Height: 280mm Weight: 6050g
- Inventory No
- 10523
- Accession Number
- 1998-7
Description
One round ether vaporizer; On the base at the front of the vaporizer is a fluid level for ether; On the front above this is an ether concentration control lever that moves horizontally along a line marked from 0 to 25;Engraved along a metal band that wraps around the centre of the vaporizer is, "OXFORD VAPORISER". The vaporizer has been sectioned to show the inside of the machine, in doing so the concertina bellows have been removed.
Invented 1941 by H.G Epstein & R.R. Macintosh.
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