Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11779

    Respiration and an artificial thorax

    Date
    1884
    Creator
    John Follet Bullar (1854 - 1929, British) , Surgeon
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    Material
    Dimensions
    height (print): 258mm
    width (print): 201mm
    Subject
    Description
    Diagrams showing the locations of sounds made by air in the respiratory tract (figure 1) with an artificial thorax designed to explore the production of such sounds using the lungs of sheep and calves (figure 2).

    Figures 1-2 from the manuscript version of the paper ‘Experiments to determine the origin of the respiratory sounds’, by J.F. Bullar, Proceedings of the Royal Society, vol.37 (1884), pp.411-422.

    Inscribed with figure numbers and publication details in ink and with the pencil annotation ’14, Furnival’s Inn Holborn’, lower left. Mounted on blue paper.

    John Follet Bullar (1854-1929) was a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and became an eye specialist in Southampton, England.
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