John Hutchinson, the inventor of the spirometer--hisnorthcountrybackground, life in London, and scientific achievements.
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Tis P"m and the two which follow, by Dr. B. Gandevia and Mr. P. J. Bishop, are concerned with a remarkable man who was born in Newcastle upon Tyne on 14 January 1811. He studied and practised medicine in London, and then emigrated to Australia in 1852, dying in Fiji on 16 July 1861. He was by no means the first to measure human ventilation, and the story of other attempts must be told elsewhere; but his adaptation for this purpose of the gazometer or gasometer of Lavoisier,1 Watt" and Davy,3 and particularly its exploitation in more than 4,000 clinical measure ments, justify his reputation as the inventor of spirometry.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Medical History
دوره 21 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1977