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  2. Nebulizer - Wikipedia

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    Ultrasonic wave nebulizers were invented in 1965 [16] as a new type of portable nebulizer. The technology inside an ultrasonic wave nebulizer is to have an electronic oscillator generate a high frequency ultrasonic wave, which causes the mechanical vibration of a piezoelectric element.

  3. Talk:Nebulizer - Wikipedia

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    The first nebulizer was invented and designed by Sales-Girons in 1858. The first dry powder inhaler was invented by Newton in 1864. And finaly the pressurized Metered Dose Inhaler (pMDI) only was launched in March 1956 as the last type of inhaler. For the treatment of asthma all the 6 type of inhalers have historicaly been used (at least to ...

  4. Timeline of respiratory therapy - Wikipedia

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    1771: Carl Scheele (1742–1786) makes "fire air" (oxygen) by heating magnesium oxide.His findings are published in June 1774. 1774: Joseph Priestley (1733–1804), credited with the discovery of oxygen, publishes his work on "dephlogisticated air" oxygen 3 months after a report by Carl Scheele.

  5. Timeline of historic inventions - Wikipedia

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    The timeline of historic inventions is a chronological list of particularly significant technological inventions and their inventors, where known. [ a ] The dates in this article make frequent use of the units mya and kya , which refer to millions and thousands of years ago, respectively.

  6. Inhaler - Wikipedia

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    An inhaler (puffer, asthma pump or allergy spray) is a medical device used for delivering medicines into the lungs through the work of a person's breathing. This allows medicines to be delivered to and absorbed in the lungs, which provides the ability for targeted medical treatment to this specific region of the body, as well as a reduction in the side effects of oral medications.

  7. Timeline of medicine and medical technology - Wikipedia

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    The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present. Harper Collins. ISBN 0-00-215173-1. Porter, Roy, ed. The Cambridge History of Medicine (2006); 416pp; excerpt and text search. Porter, Roy, ed. The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine (2001) excerpt and text search excerpt and text search

  8. List of inventors - Wikipedia

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    Joseph John O'Connell (1861–1959), U.S. – number of inventions relating to telephony and electrical engineering; Theophil Wilgodt Odhner (1845–1903), Sweden/Russia – the Odhner Arithmometer, a mechanical calculator; Paul Offit (born 1951), U.S., along with Fred Clark and Stanley Plotkin, invented a pentavalent Rotavirus vaccine

  9. Artificial ventilation - Wikipedia

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    These views that were held for several decades. The introduction of a common method of external manual manipulation in 1858, was the "Silvester Method" invented by Henry Robert Silvester. A method in which a patient is laid on their back and their arms are raised above their head to aid inhalation and then pressed against their chest to aid ...