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Mask from SCHIMMELBUSCH, about 1900
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Anesthesia in 1907
"Mertert, July 8. (By telephone.) Last night a young man took a ticket to Manternach for the last Luxembourg-Trier train, and said to Mertert that he was waiting for the express train from Trier to Luxembourg As the train approached, the man tried to throw himself on the rails, but the officers dragged him away, and they managed to do so with the utmost effort, locking the tired, apparently insane, man into the station building, where he immediately detained everyone The gendarmes of Wasserbillig, who had been hastily requisitioned, bound the unfortunate man and took him to the doctor, where he had to be chloroformed in order to put an end to the outbursts of madness He was brought to Ettelbrück by Wasserbillig, and by all accounts, it is an insane one to do Germans who may have come from a foreign institution "(Luxemburger Wort, 30.7.1907).
Anesthesia was performed at the turn of the century by surgeons and nurses, so the equipment had to be easy to use, and the anesthetic used had to be well controlled. For simplicity, OMBREDANN's device was abandoned many times in 1862 in favor of the simpler SCHIMMELBUSCH mask in which ether was dropped onto a mask placed on the patient's nose, liquid ether evaporating in contact with the gauze of the mask and was inhaled by the patient ...
The MOLD BUSH MASK was stored in a metal tin, along with the matching dropper bottle.
Presented is a "chloroform mask" after SCHIMMELBUSCH *, as it still 1942 in the catalog of "Manufacture Belge de Gembloux" under the catalog no. 15323 was offered as "Masque pliant pour anesthésie au chloroforme".
The surgeon Curt SCHIMMELBUSCH was born on November 16, 1860 in Grossnogarth / West Prussia, he died in Berlin on 2.8.1895. After him, the mask and a drum were named for the sterilization and storage of material.
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