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Title: Patient in respirator, with nurse.

Subject: Respirators (Medical equipment)
Subject: Hospitals -- history -- North Carolina
Subject: Patients
Subject: Nursing
Subject: Technology
Subject: Poliomyelitis
Subject: Duke University. Hospital
Date: Unknown
Date: 2005-02-03
Publisher: Duke University Medical Center Archives
Description: A patient lies in an early tank respirator, often referred to as an "iron lung." Respirators were used primarily as treatment for polio. The first tank respirator, credited to Philip Drinker and Louis Shaw, was developed in 1929.

Collection: Foundations of Excellence
Identifier: http://medspace.mc.duke.edu:8080/vital/access/HandleResolver/2193.1/5793
Identifier: cln00014
Identifier: Photograph & Negative Collection
Identifier: dumca:757
Format: Print
Relation: Clinical
Rights: This image is owned by Duke University. Please contact Medical Center Archives for permission to use.

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