Administering oxygen beside a patient's bed, St Bartholomew's Hospital, City of London, Greater London
A stop-cock and flow-meter for administering oxygen beside a patient's bed at St Bartholomew's Hospital. The image was originally titled ‘These gases give life’. A nurse could easily supply patients with varying amounts of oxygen at their bedside. The flow-meter indicates in litres per minute the amount of oxygen the patient is receiving. The piped provision of oxygen to patient’s in bed was an important invention – which led the way to the creation of other assisted breathing equipment, such as ventilators'
