Gwathmey’s Folding Anesthesia Mask
$200
Gwathmey's Folding Anesthesia Mask
Circa
1904
Country of manufacture
North America
Description
A scarce example of Gwathmey’s Folding anesthesia Mask. Regarding this mask the Wood Library of Anesthesia’s site notes:
“Dr. James Tayloe [sic] Gwathmey (1863-1944) was a leader in making anesthesiology a highly respected medical specialty. He is best known for writing the first comprehensive American textbook of anesthesia, in 1914. He also invented a range of anesthesia equipment. In 1904, he introduced this mask as one part of a resuscitation apparatus. Gwathmey modified the Esmarch Mask to better fit the contours of the face, and added a tubular rim that is pierced with holes. This can be used to deliver resuscitating oxygen, or a combination of oxygen and anesthetics. When connected to the mask by a hose, these gases flowed through the holes in the rim to be inhaled by the patient. The same concept was further modified a decade later in the Yankauer-Gwathmey Mask.”
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M and R Gordon
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