• Anaesthesia · Feb 1996

    Biography Historical Article

    Doctor Dee's ether apparatus.

    • G Sudarshan, A K Soni, and B Welsh.
    • Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle Upon Tyne.
    • Anaesthesia. 1996 Feb 1;51(2):158-60.

    AbstractIn the early 1940s, Dr M. H. Armstrong-Davison devised an apparatus for inhalational anaesthesia. The apparatus was essentially a combination of Water's to-and-fro soda-lime canister and Hewitt's ether inhaler. The description of the apparatus is followed by a brief historical note on Dr Armstrong-Davison.

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