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Artifact Name	Robinson Pneumothorax Apparatus
Type of Object	Pneumothorax
Manufacturer	George P. Pilling & Son Co.
Place of Manufacture	Philadelphia (Pa.)
Date of Manufacture	1915-1950
Time Period	Twentieth century
Dimensions	33 cm. x 44.5 cm. x 19 cm.
Physical Details	Artificial penumothorax apparatus with wood base and back. Two blocks of wood hold a framework of steel tubes, to which are attached nozzles, a barometer, hoses, and tubes connecting two large glass vessels with pressurized caps. Each glass vessel has markings of capacity from 0 to 2000cc, and has a valve at the top which is connected to the gauge and other bottle with a tightly clamping handle. Connecting hoses are made of rubber. The gauge on the left hand side of the apparatus reads from 22 at the top and bottom to Zero at the middle of the gauge mechanism. Tubes are made of rubber.
Medical Subject	Pneumothorax, Artificial -- instrumentation
Accession Number	1982.305
Type	Stillimage
Format	image/jp2
Rights Management	© VCU. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 Acknowledgement of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Collection	Medical Artifacts Collection
Contributor	Tompkins-McCaw Library. Special Collections & Archives
Digital Publisher	VCU Libraries
Local genre	medical artifact

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