Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8684
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Apparatus for inflating animal lungs
Date
1819
Creator
James Carson (1772 - 1843, British) , Physician
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Material
Dimensions
height (drawing): 234mm
width (drawing): 177mm
width (drawing): 177mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Plate 4 from the paper "On the elasticity of the lungs", by James Carson, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.110 (1820), pp.29-44. Scheme of a glass globe and tubing inserted into the windpipe of a sheep. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details and the note "Explanatory Figure" has been pencilled through as a deletion. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso, together with the paper title and author details.
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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