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Dr Siegle's steam nebulizer, Thackray Museum of Medicine [27] The first pneumatic nebulizer fed from an electrically driven gas (air) compressor was invented in the 1930s and called a Pneumostat. With this device, a medical liquid (typically epinephrine chloride, used as a bronchial muscle relaxant to reverse constriction). [28]
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.
Joseph Mortimer Granville (4 May 1833, Devonport – 23 November 1900, London) was an English physician, author and inventor known for having first patented the electromechanical vibrator for relief of muscle aches, exclusively for male patients.
While the 4 other competing type of inhalers are relatively new inventions. The first "gas inhaler" (or breathing apparatus) was invented and designed by James Watt in 1793. The first nebulizer was invented and designed by Sales-Girons in 1858. The first dry powder inhaler was invented by Newton in 1864.
Thomas Midgley Jr. (May 18, 1889 – November 2, 1944) was an American mechanical and chemical engineer.He played a major role in developing leaded gasoline (tetraethyl lead) and some of the first chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), better known in the United States by the brand name Freon; both products were later banned from common use due to their harmful impact on human health and the environment.
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.
On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Frida relaunch in the U.S., CEO Chelsea Hirschhorn looks back at the "blind naivete" that let her believe the snotsucker could go mainstream.
The iron lung, often referred to in the early days as the "Drinker respirator", was invented by Philip Drinker (1894–1972) and Louis Agassiz Shaw Jr., professors of industrial hygiene at the Harvard School of Public Health. [17] [18] [19] [excessive citations] The machine was powered by an electric motor with air pumps from two vacuum cleaners.