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.
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The side effects of lithium mining
Laura Grace Simpkins attempts to untangle some uncomfortable truths about the social and environmental costs of making her medication.
Catalogue
- Audio
Medicine machines. Part 4, The iron lung.
Date: 2001- Videos
Children of the iron lung.
Date: 2000- Pictures
- Online
An iron lung, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London: a patient inside a Drinker respirator, attended to by a nurse and a doctor. Photograph, ca. 1930( ?).
Date: 1930Reference: 565883i- Books
Industrial lung diseases of iron and steel foundry workers / [by A.I.G. McLaughlin and others].
Date: 1950- Books
A being breathing thoughtful breath : the history of the British iron lung, 1832-1995 / written by Richard Hill.
Hill, Richard.Date: [1995], ©1995