- Subject
- Anaesthetics
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- A. Charles King Ltd
- Provenance
- From the Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, John Radcliffe Hospital.
- Dimensions
- Height: 160mm Width: 245mm Depth: 145mm Weight: 3017g
- Inventory No
- 10581
- Accession Number
- 1998-7
Description
Machine adapted from the nitrous oxide half of a McKesson machine, to give analgesia for midwifery. The face piece for the Minnitt machine (absent from this example) had a patient-controlled valve.
Invented 1933 by Robert James Minnitt (1889-1974).
See references.
