LORD NUFFIELD GIFT TO EMPIRE HOSPITALS Lord Nuffield (left) presenting to Lord Cunliffe (right), at Guy’s Hospital, the first of the “iron lungs ”of which the famous philanthropist has promised one to every hospital in the Empire. This type of mechanical respirator was invented by an Australian. Sir Frederick Menzies, a prominent physician, has criticised the gift as “a waste of benevolence " owing to the fact that the apparatus is still in the evolutionary stage.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23704, 11 January 1939, Page 4
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75LORD NUFFIELD GIFT TO EMPIRE HOSPITALS Lord Nuffield (left) presenting to Lord Cunliffe (right), at Guy’s Hospital, the first of the “iron lungs ”of which the famous philanthropist has promised one to every hospital in the Empire. This type of mechanical respirator was invented by an Australian. Sir Frederick Menzies, a prominent physician, has criticised the gift as “a waste of benevolence" owing to the fact that the apparatus is still in the evolutionary stage. Otago Daily Times, Issue 23704, 11 January 1939, Page 4
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