Codex ChronicaEst. MMXXVI
Latest PlateFifteen Hundred Hands →Intensive care is born in a polio ward, before the machines could take over.

Codex Chronica — An Illustrated History of Medicine

An Illustrated History of Medicine18 epochs / 37 plates
Hafnia
A.D. 1952

The Breathing Machine

Fifteen hundred hands breathe for a city.

Epoch XVI1 plates
A tank respirator with a nurse at the porthole, from the Medical Research Council's report on "breathing machines," 1939. The pump lowered the pressure around the chest and drew air in through the mouth; in bulbar polio it drew whatever lay in the throat in with it. Medical Research Council, 1939 / Wellcome Collection - CC BY 4.0.
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