Atomiser, De Vilbiss

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From the Collection of Geoffrey Kaye Museum of Anaesthetic History ANZCA House 630 St Kilda Road Melbourne Victoria

Description: Red, heavy cardboard box with manufacturer's label at one end, containing a glass bottle with metal spray attachment, and a khaki rubber bulb for pumping liquid through the atomiser.
Size: 6.5 x 6.5 x 19 [cardboard box]
Object Registration: 3113
Keywords: atomiser, local anaesthetic
Historical information: Dr. Allen De Vilbiss (1841-1917) of Toledo, Ohio, developed his first atomiser around 1887. This device was designed to allow for dissolving cocaine, as a local anaesthetic agent, in oil, and spraying into the nose and throat. In the early to mid 20th Century, The DeVilbiss Company began making perfume atomisers instead of medical ones.
When Made: Circa 1910
Inscriptions & Markings: Stamped into top of metal atomiser: DE VILBISS TOLEDO USA
Last updated: 26 Nov 2018 at 2:43PM

Photograph album, Rupert Hornabrook

Geoffrey Kaye Museum of Anaesthetic History, Melbourne

Blue photograph album with vinyl wrapped heavy card cover. A three ringed binder is attached to the inside of the album and sixteen (16) photographs are inside, mounted on heavy card. Each photograph has a typed label on white paper in blue ink adhered to the front describing the events of the photograph. Photographs depict various administrations of ethyl chloride as anaesthesia and analgesia, with many photographs of Rupert Hornabrook.

Historical information

This photo album depicts a small period of time during 1919, and highlights some of the anaesthetic work conducted by Dr Rupert Hornabrook. There is no record as to the reason for the construction of the album, but it appears to offer insight into his work the Dental School, as well as experimentation with different types of anaesthetic agents, using himself as a test subject.

Significance

Rupert Hornabrook was an early full-time anaesthetist in Australia. He helped to develop anaesthesia into a specialised field of medicine by conducting research into the way anaesthesia worked, and its effects on the body. This album is of historic significance as it not only documents a specific period in the professional life of a full-time anaesthetist in Australia, it also documents anaesthetic equipment, and the way it was used.

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Bird Anaesthesia Assistor/Controller Mark 4

Geoffrey Kaye Museum of Anaesthetic History, Melbourne

Green metal box atop a clear plastic unit with a black bellows inside, which forms one part of the overall unit. The unit is attached to a pole, enabling height adjustment. The pole is, in turn, attached to a set of four castors [not original].

Historical information

The Bird Mark 4 is an anaesthesia assistor or controller with pressure and volume controller to be driven by a respirator. Combination of Mark 4 with respirator makes an automatic anaesthesia respirator eliminating manual bagging. The machine can work through Boyle anaesthetic system. It is designed for both paediatric and adult application. (Drugs and Equipment in Anaesthesia Practice, Aruna Parameswari, 2019)

Inscriptions & Markings

White text on black stick on strip on top of metal box: DO NOT PULL APART / FOR USE IN THEATRE ONLY A series of instructions are printed in white text over the unit.

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Photo album, Anaesthetic trays

Geoffrey Kaye Museum of Anaesthetic History, Melbourne

Green, leather bound photo album with brown leather edge, held together by brown and gold yarn. There is gold gilt lettering on the front, surrounded by a gold gilt decorative oval, spelling out "Photographs". Inside the album are a series of heavy paper pages with photographs and labels stuck on to them. Not all pages have been used, and additional photographs were stored among the blank pages. These have now been relocated to BK3. The photos depict the various ways in which an anaesthetic tray should be prepared for particular types of operations.

Historical information

The photo contains a series of photographs depicting the correct procedure for setting up an anaesthetic tray for theatre.

Inscriptions & Markings

White sticker [discoloured] adhered to top right hand corner of photo album, with handwritten inscription: ANAESTHETIC TRAYS

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Poster: Restoring the Apparently Dead

Geoffrey Kaye Museum of Anaesthetic History, Melbourne

Poster from the Royal Humane Society of Australia outlining instructions for "Restoring the Apparently Dead". The original poster is printed in black ink on silk .

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Ampoule, Camphor

Geoffrey Kaye Museum of Anaesthetic History, Melbourne

Pale blue cardboard box with blue manufacturer's label across the face of the box and down each side. The label has black printed text. Inside the box is allocation for ten (10) ampoules. There are three (3) clear glass ampoules each with a pale blue label with black printed text. A metal blade is wrapped in tissue paper and a thin, squared off piece of metal is also wrapped in tissue paper.

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Ampoule, Caffeine

Geoffrey Kaye Museum of Anaesthetic History, Melbourne

Small clear glass ampoule with black printed text on surface containing the amber coloured liquid of 2 grains in 1 cc Hermette Caffeine.

Historical information

Persian physicians Rhazes (860–932CE) and Avicenna (980–1037CE) mentioned coffee in specialised writings, describing its medicinal properties. Although caffeine took centuries to find its way to Europe, it was quickly found to have medicinal value. Coffee has been mentioned in medical journals since the beginning of the eighteenth century, emphasising its capacity for nervous and vasomotor stimulation. Caffeine is a central nervous system stimulant of the methylxanthine class of psychoactive drugs. It is the world's most widely consumed psychoactive drug. Pfizer acquired David G Bull in 1984.

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Book - Practical Anaesthesia

Geoffrey Kaye Museum of Anaesthetic History, Melbourne

Hard covered burgundy book with gold leaf letter on front and spine and gold leaf trim on all faces.

Historical information

Practical Anaesthesia was the first text book on anaesthesia produced in Australia. Geoffrey Kaye was one of the contributors to this book, which included a foreword by F.H. McMechan, Secretary General, International Anesthesia Research Society.

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Untitled

Geoffrey Kaye Museum of Anaesthetic History, Melbourne

Draeger resuscitation kit, inside wooden case with handle. Case contains small heavy gas cylinder with large beige handwritten 'S. M E' inscription on one side. Due to water damage case missing pieces of plywood in corner and floor of case bubbled and swollen.|Rubber decomposed rigid

Historical information

The Dräeger Pulmotor was developed in 1907. It addressed previous concerns about lung injury, by limiting both the inspiratory and expiratory pressures. Although still controversial, the Pulmotor was widely distributed and commercially successful. Oxygen from cylinders provided both the inspiratory gas flow and the driving mechanism. Expiration was an active process and gases were sucked from the lungs by negative pressure created by a Venturi effect. This device came with a facemask and harness, with a caution that the operator should take care to prevent air entering the stomach.

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Airway, Guedel

Geoffrey Kaye Museum of Anaesthetic History, Melbourne

Curved, red rubber tubing with a metal connector in one end.

Historical information

Oral airways, such as the Guedel, make it much easier for patients to be ventilated. They depress the tongue and prevent it from falling to the back of the throat where it would obstruct the airway.

Inscriptions & Markings

19M.M. DO

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Junker's apparatus

Geoffrey Kaye Museum of Anaesthetic History, Melbourne

Glass jar with liquid measure markers etched onto. The jar has a metal lid, with a metal tube descending into the jar. Two metal tubes are protuding out of the top of the lid, and each has a small section of rubber tubing attached. There is also a metal hook, used to attached the jar to the physicians (anaesthetist's) lapel.

Historical information

Junker's inhalers are a "blow over" device used with a hand-held bellows to bubble air through liquid chlooform and to the patient. It was initially inteded for use with bichloride of methylene, a mixture of chloroform and methyl alcohol. Ferdinand Adalbert Junker introduced his inhaler in 1867 as appointed physician to Samaritan Free Hospital for Women (although it didn't have that name until c.1904).

Inscriptions & Markings

Stamped into frame of metal lid: LONDON MADE

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Eyebath

Geoffrey Kaye Museum of Anaesthetic History, Melbourne

Small glass container with a round base, extending into an oval shaped opening

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Mask, Julliard

Geoffrey Kaye Museum of Anaesthetic History, Melbourne

Large metal wire frame mask, covered in waxed paper, with gauze wrapped around the rim to prevent ether leaking out, effectively forming a rebreathing apparatus.

Historical information

This is a large metal framework covered in gauze, the whole mask completely enclosing the patient's face excluding any possibility of carbon dioxide being excreted. This object was found in the possession of the Italian Army in Libya in 1940, and donated to the museum by Dr Geoffrey Kaye. Gustave Julliard, of Geneva, after a death from chloroform had occurred in his practice, abandoned the use of that anaesthetic and adopted ether. He administered it from a large, wire frame, the outside of which was covered with waxed cloth to make it impermeable to air, the inside with surgical gauze on to which the ether was poured.

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Funnel, glass

Geoffrey Kaye Museum of Anaesthetic History, Melbourne

Clear dimpled glass in the shape of a funnel, with red strong running through the centre, and tied to one side.

Historical information

A funnel, held above the patient's face, was almost the standard of giving oxygen until c.1930. It was quite useless, enriching the inhaled atmosphere by only about 3% of oxygen.

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Label, Cylinder

Geoffrey Kaye Museum of Anaesthetic History, Melbourne

Large unused diamond shaped Austox label made for use on nitrous oxide cylinders. Dark purple, violet and white background, with white, violet and red lettering.

Inscriptions & Markings

Information printed on label: SPECIALLY PREPARED FOR MEDICAL USES. / AUSTOX [logo] / NITROUS OXIDE / KEEP COOL / WEIGHTS: / GROSS..........LBS. ........OZS. / TARE.......... LBS. ........OZS. / NET..........LBS. ........OZS. / Contents Imp. Gallons / WARNING. - Great caution must be exercised to prevent any oil entering the cylinder, or being applied to the valve or fittings. The use of oil may lead to a dangerous explosion. / AUSTRALIAN OXYGEN / AND / INDUSTRIAL GASES / PTY. LTD. / MELBOURNE

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Label, Cylinder

Geoffrey Kaye Museum of Anaesthetic History, Melbourne

Large unused diamond shaped Austox label made for use on carbon dioxide cylinders. Black and beige background, with beige and red lettering.

Inscriptions & Markings

Information printed on label: SPECIALLY PREPARED FOR MEDICAL USES. / AUSTOX [logo] / COMPRESSED / CARBON DIOXIDE / KEEP COOL [in red] / WEIGHTS: / GROSS..........LBS. ........OZS. / TARE..........LBS. ........OZS. / NET..........LBS. .......OZS. / Contents Imp. Gallons / USE NO OIL OR GREASE ON VALVE [in red] / AUSTRALIAN OXYGEN / AND / INDUSTRIAL GASES / PTY. LTD. / MELBOURNE

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Label, Cylinder

Geoffrey Kaye Museum of Anaesthetic History, Melbourne

Large unused rectangular label made for use on carbon dioxide cylinders with 10% CO2 printed on it. Beige with black lettering.

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Label, Cylinder

Geoffrey Kaye Museum of Anaesthetic History, Melbourne

Large unused rectangular label made for use on carbon dioxide cylinders with 5% CO2 printed on it. Beige with black lettering.

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Label, Cylinder

Geoffrey Kaye Museum of Anaesthetic History, Melbourne

Large unused diamond shaped Austox label made for use on carbogen cylinders. Beige with a black border, and green and red lettering.

Inscriptions & Markings

Information printed on label: SPECIALLY PREPARED FOR MEDICAL USES. / AUSTOX [logo] / COMPRESSED / CARBOGEN / CO2..........% OXYGEN.......... / (The percentages stated above are subject to tolerance) / KEEP COOL [in red] / CONTENTS: Imperial Gallons / WARNING - Great caution must be exercised to prevent any oil entering the cylinder, or being applied to the valve or fittings. The use of oil may lead to a dangerous explosion. [in red] / Australian Oxygen & Industrial Gases / Pty. Ltd. / MELBOURNE

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Label, Cylinder

Geoffrey Kaye Museum of Anaesthetic History, Melbourne

Large unused hexagonal shaped CIG label made for use on carbogen cylinders. Beige and green background with black lettering.

Inscriptions & Markings

Information printed on label: CIG MEDICAL SECTION [logo] / OXYGEN 90% CARBON DIOXIDE 10% / (These Percentages are subject to a tolerance) / Contents..........Imp. Gallons / COMPRESSED / CARBOGEN / C.I.G. (Victoria) Pty. Ltd. / 550 Latrobe Street, Melbourne, C.3 / Telephone: FJ6681 / USE NO OIL / OR GREASE

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Label, Cylinder

Geoffrey Kaye Museum of Anaesthetic History, Melbourne

Large unused diamond shaped Austox label made for use on ethylene cylinders. Red with beige lettering.

Inscriptions & Markings

Information printed on label: AUSTOX [logo] / INFLAMMABLE / ETHYLENE / KEEP COOL / Product of the British Oxygen Co. Ltd. / Contents...............c.ft. ...............gallons (Imp.) / Weight of Full Cylinder ..........lbs. ..........ozs. / 31 OUNCES ETHYLENE = 166 1/2 GALLONS (IMPERIAL) / Use only moderate force when closing valve / Always test with water for leakage after using / Australian Oxygen & Industrial Gases / Pty. Ltd. / MELBOURNE

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Atomiser, De Vilbiss

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