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Infant respirator used at Memorial Hospital, 1932
Pendleton & Arto, Inc. Medical Supplies, 1930
Physician on Street Corner with Bag, 1932
Infant respirator used at Memorial Hospital, 1932
Student in Doorway (1932)
Student and Vent Outlet, 1932
Memorial Hospital Fever Box, 1935
Memorial Hospital Nursing Station, 1935
Nurses and nursing students in a hall at Memorial Hospital, 1935
Hermann Hospital School of Nursing graduating class (1936)
Maternity Ward Room, 1936
Hermann School of Nursing Class of 1936 Group Photo
Oldsmobile ambulance, Memorial Hospital, 1936
Flash board, 1936
X-ray viewing box at Memorial Hospital, 1937
Iron lung, Memorial Hospital, 1937
Hydrotherapy Machine: Therapeutic Bath, 1937
Memorial Hospital Tissue Room and Lab (1937)
Radiology Department at Memorial Hospital, 1937
Radiology Department at Memorial Hospital 2, 1937
X-ray Viewing Box at Memorial Hospital, 1937
Children in Front of Memorial Hospital's Cottage for Sick and Crippled Children on Christmas Eve (1937)
Iron lung machines in use at Memorial Hospital, 1937
Memorial Hospital from the air, circa 1928-1938
Aerial View of Jefferson Davis Hospital and Nurses' Home, Houston, Texas, 1938
Vivian Maddox, medical records librarian, and hospital “sweetheart”, 1938

Infant respirator used at Memorial Hospital, 1932

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This type of iron lung is called a Drinker respirator after one of its developers. Iron lungs work by alternating negative and positive pressure within their sealed body chambers—the negative pressure..

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This type of iron lung is called a Drinker respirator after one of its developers. Iron lungs work by alternating negative and positive pressure within their sealed body chambers—the negative pressure creates a vacuum around the patient that expands the chest cavity, compelling inhalation, and then a cycle of positive pressure compels exhalation. Negative-pressure ventilators of this type only came into use in the late 1920’s, so the acquisition of this in 1931 was quite a coup. At the time, it was one of only 36 in all of the United States and Canada. Hospital administrators publicized the new baby respirator to spur fundraising for an adult-sized one.
The donor, J.W. Neal, was a Maxwell House Coffee distributor, banker, and philanthropist. His papers are held by the Houston Metropolitan Research Center. See more at ic-103.pdf.

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