Stories
- Article
A brief history of ventilation
As ventilators continue to play an important part in helping very ill coronavirus patients, medical historian Dr Lindsey Fitzharris traces their development from the first attempts at mouth-to-mouth resuscitation through centuries of medical crises.
- Article
What is air, and how do we know?
Watching bubbles in fermenting beer led 18th-century scientist Joseph Priestley to invent sparkling water – and to discover that different gases make up the air we breathe.
- Article
The building as tool of healing
When we’re ill, it’s not just medical care that helps to treat us. Architects have discovered that the right environment can play an important part too.
- Long read
The ambivalence of air
Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Respiration Meter
Date: 1944-1949Reference: PP/WDP/D/2/5/4Part of: Paton, Sir William Drummond Macdonald (1917-1993), Pharmacologist- Archives and manuscripts
Respiration Miscellaneous
Date: 1948Reference: PP/WDP/D/2/5/10Part of: Paton, Sir William Drummond Macdonald (1917-1993), Pharmacologist- Archives and manuscripts
Respiration (Work of)
Date: 1944Reference: PP/WDP/D/2/5/5Part of: Paton, Sir William Drummond Macdonald (1917-1993), Pharmacologist- Archives and manuscripts
Respiration
Date: 1939-1950Reference: PP/WDP/D/2/5Part of: Paton, Sir William Drummond Macdonald (1917-1993), Pharmacologist- Journals
- Online
Respiration physiology
Date: 1966-2002