Poe's Pharyngeal Airway
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This is an example of an early airway management device for anaesthesia.
Hollow curved metal tube with flat plate at one end and two tube coming out of it, one curved to the left, one curved to the right.
Engraved by hand on curve of tube: POE'S / ASA 1940
Engraved by hand on flat plate: Wood
Stamped into flat plate: REGGER
