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2007.0689

Reproduction of a photograph taken in 1940. The image shows Dr Torrance and Sister Lee attending to a patient in a Morris Drinker type iron lung in Scots Mission Hospital in Tiberias, Palestine.

Production date
1940
Associated organisations
Scots Mission Hospital
Associated place
Tiberias
Labels
The Drinker type iron lung was developed in 1928 by Phillip Drinker and Louis Agassiz Shaw Jr. The machine was the first respirator to be used widely.

Part 2007.0689

Classification:
5120: Advertising giveaways
Object Name:
photograph
Location:
On Display