A man in bed in a hospital ward receiving penicillin. Drawing by Anna Zinkeisen, 194-.
- Zinkeisen, Anna K.
- Date:
- [between 1940 and 1949?]
- Reference:
- 576651i
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The penicillin is supplied from the machine shown in the foreground: it is an electric-driven syringe, which is plugged into the electric light as a source of power. It drives a syringe containing a fixed amount of a light brown fluid, which is injected along a rubber tube that passes under the bedclothes and then possibly into the patient's thigh. Between the syringe and the patient, the drug passes through two capsules which are designed to prevent air-bubbles from entering the patient's bloodstream
The machine was described by Dr C. E. Last, medical officer, Queen Mary's Hospital for Children (L.C.C.), Carshalton (evacuated to Dryburn Emergency Hospital, Durham) in 1945. It was manufactured by Willen Bros. Ltd., of 44, New Cavendish Street, London W1, and used by Last at Dryburn Emergency Hospital
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