Steel lung, Brompton Hospital
Steel Lung at the Brompton hospital in London. Also known as a tank ventilator, iron lung or Drinker tank, is a type of negative pressure ventilator a mechanical respirator which encloses most of a person's body, and varies the air pressure in the enclosed space, to stimulate breathing
Picture No
13744132
Media ID
46791740
Size
2502px x 3820px
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Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Unattributed photograph, The Sphere, March 21 , 1925, p323
Date
1925
