Stories
- Article
Inhaling happiness and gasping for a high
The rapid, short-lived high we get from whippets, reefers and vapes can be accompanied by long-term health consequences. The search is on for safer ways to get stoned.
- 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.
- In pictures
Laughing gas and the scientific pursuit of the sublime
Part science lecture. part public spectacle, thanks to chemist Humphry Davy the 19th-century craze for inhaling nitrous oxide rapidly spread from the science laboratory to fashionable salons and homes of the day, and onto the popular stage.
- Book extract
My important, ridiculous nose
The nose is a much-maligned appendage, but it’s a powerful organ capable of invoking powerful emotions from past memories and sexual attraction.
Catalogue
- Books
Inhale / [Inhale Therapeutic Systems].
Inhale Therapeutic Systems (Firm)Date: [1998]- Books
The treatment of gas casualties by direct application of re-agents : respiratory / issued by the Inhalation Institute, Ltd.
Date: [between 1940 and 1945?]- Archives and manuscripts
M0006820: Sansoms and Snow's chloroform inhalers
Date: 1 May 1940
- Digital Images
- Online
Ether inhalation: the graduated dose inhaler.
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
M0006964: Ellis's compound inhaler
Date: 8 May 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/59/59Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive