Anesthetic Gas Machine
Date1930-1950
Credit LineGift of the London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario, 2004.
Object number2004.038.009
Label TextThis is a Foregger Company of New York Texas model anaesthesia machine from the late 1930s or early 1940s. Machines like this provided anesthetic gases to keep patients sedated during surgery.The company built its first Texas model machine in the 1930s for Dr. L. W. Kuser of Gainesville, Texas, incorporating a cart that could hold large cylinders of compressed gas into the design. The machine pictured here also includes six Aquameter flowmeters. These water-filled flowmeters registered the rate of the agent flowing from a specific vaporizer or cylinder of compressed gas.
NameInstrument, Anesthetic
