Chief Anesthetist of Presbyterian Hospital, Isabella Herb, MD, demonstrates equipment, 1938

Open URL Chief Anesthetist of Presbyterian Hospital, Isabella Herb, MD, demonstrates equipment, 1938
  • Title Chief Anesthetist of Presbyterian Hospital, Isabella Herb, MD, demonstrates equipment, 1938
  • Creator Rush University Medical Center (Chicago, Ill.)
  • Date 1938
  • Description Isabella Herb, MD, chief anesthetist at Presbyterian Hospital, demonstrates ethylene-oxygen equipment to (center and right) Jay Bailey Carter, MD and Arno B. Luckhardt, MD, 1938. Luckhardt discovered the anesthetic property of ethylene gas with the assistance of Carter, who had volunteered to be first human subject for his experiments. Presbyterian Hospital is a predecessor of Rush University Medical Center. An actual patient would be lying down when the anesthesia is administered. From the Rush University Medical Center Archives, Chicago, Ill., Subject Photograph Collection, #P2372. Image featured in the newsletter, Bulletin of Presbyterian Hospital, May 1938, p3. "Ethylene anesthesia now widely used in obstetrics."
  • Subject Anesthesiology; Carter, Jay Bailey, 1898-; Herb, I. C.; Luckhardt, A. B.; Presbyterian Hospital of the City of Chicago
  • Format Photographs
  • Place Illinois--Chicago
  • Contributing-institution Rush University Medical Center Archives
  • Rights Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Ill., holds reproduction and licensing rights. For more information, please email: rush_archives@rush.edu
  • Identifier P2372_Subject_Dept,Anesthesiology,PresHosp-Herb, Carter, Luckhardt_EthyleneOxygen_1938_potm1006_.jpg
  • Type Still image
  • Language eng
  • Publisher [Chicago, Illinois] : Rush University Medical Center.
  • Rights Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Ill., holds reproduction and licensing rights. For more information, please email: rush_archives@rush.edu