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… chemist might suggest one of these medicinal pipes. Pipes like this example from 1869 were regularly recommended to … (CC BY 4.0) Therapeutic inhaler By the 1930s, devices like this therapeutic inhaler were being used to treat … Spirometers, which are used to measure how much air you can breathe in and out of your lungs, were invented …

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