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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Developed from the prototype (Item no.F74.27.3), the Williams Pneumoflater MS160 provides mechanical means for artificial respiration particularly during anaesthesia, fitted with a clock made by A. Charles King, gas operated & used with Boyles apparatus
This apparatus was meant to be inserted into the type of anaesthetic machine then in use (in the late 1940s). Its function was as an "automatic breathing device", which allowed the lungs to be mechanically inflated while the patient was in a state of anaesthesia. It could be used for long periods of time if necessary, which was particularly useful in chest surgery. First used at Morriston Hospital, Swansea at the end of the 1940s. After 3 years, it had been used in more than 900 major operations
