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Metadata
Object Name |
Diorama |
Object ID |
2004.290.01.01 |
Earliest Year |
1910 |
Latest Year |
1972 |
Description |
Model shows a patient lying down on an examination table while doctor and nurse figures administer treatment with a pneumothorax machine. Model is in a plexiglass case with a wood bottom. |
Materials |
Wood/Plastic/Metal/Paint |
Provenance |
The Queen Alexandra or Beck Sanitorium was open between 1910-1972. Such a model would have been made by patients in occupational therapy to show a treatment for their tuberculosis. |
MeSH Search Terms |
Therapeutics Rehabilitation Occupational Therapy Collapse Therapy |
Classification |
Occupational Therapy Tuberculosis Respirology Therapeutics Art Art Therapy |
Related Publications |
P2004-290 |
Research Notes |
A pneumothorax is not a treatment in itself—it is simply a word for a pocket of air outside the lung which can cause the lung to collapse. It was introduced as a treatment for tuberculosis in the late 1800s, as it was believed that artificially collapsing the lung would allow it to rest. A pneumothorax machine functioned by using the two bottles, one filled with water, and rubber tubing to displace air into a patient’s chest cavity. This is a 20th-century diorama showing the procedure, which was created by patients in occupational therapy at the Queen Alexandra/Beck Memorial Sanatorium in London, Ontario. |