Patient cured with a pair of bellows

A pair of bellows is not something that is immediately thought of in connection with the practise of medicine.  However as we shall see from this article, originally published in the Medico Chirugical review and republished in The Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery in 1840 it proved life saving in the 1830′s at Cerne Abbas, Dorset.

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