May 31st 2004
Delivering soft balmy Italian air, the Ammoniaphone was popular in 1886.
May 24th 2004
Another example of asthma cigarettes, Page’s inhalers, have been added.
On the 8th of May photos from the Inhalatorium collection depicting ‘asthma in the good old days’ were exhibited in Pittsburg at the 5th Annual Asthma Fair. Over 3,500 people participated in this huge success.
May 15th 2004
Two ceramic inhalers have been added, an attractive floral Hockin’s ACME inhaler and a S. Maw & son Nelson inhaler dating from c1865. There are several Maw’s inhalers already on the website, all are slightly different. The first Nelson’s inhaler was reported in the Lancet as a new invention in 1865 and carried the name of S. Maw & Son. In 1870 Maw’s became known as S. Maw, Son & Thompson until around 1900 when it became known as S. Maw, Son & Sons.
The glass bowl from the inside of a pillow inhaler has been added.
May 3rd 2004
A French steam-power inhaler based on Dr Siegle’s device (described by Mackenzie in 1871) has just been added.
April 25th 2004
Have you been to an oxygen bar recently? Visitors to Tokyo and Las Vegas will be familiar with these ‘bars’ where people can inhale oxygen enriched air. A new idea? Not really, Scientific American in 1895 reported a similar establishment in Saint Raphael, an ozone bar.
Inhaling ‘pure’ oxygen was an idea that was first advocated by Dr Beddoes, a friend of Sir Humphrey Davy and James Watt. He set up a ‘pneumatic institute’ in Bristol dedicated to the purpose in 1799. Beddoes inhalation apparatus was illustrated in a book published in 1856, by the Medical Pneumatic Apparatus Company.