Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11780

    Artificial thorax

    Date
    1884
    Creator
    John Follet Bullar (1854 - 1929, British) , Surgeon
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    Material
    Dimensions
    height (print): 251mm
    width (print): 204mm
    Subject
    Description
    Diagrams showing a sliding frame for use within the author’s artificial thorax (inscribed figure II) and the frame in use to contain the lungs of a calf or sheep (figure III). With two details of India-rubber tubes and bags intended to mimic the trachea and bronchi.

    Figures 3-6 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. 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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