Self-Gassing Device



Kind of like having an octopus attached to your head. From Popular Science, May 1938.
     Posted By: Alex - Sun Aug 19, 2012
     Category: Inventions | Medicine





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It's self-limiting: if you give yourself too much, you pass out, and stop squeezing the bulb.

It looks like a cross between a rubber chicken and a blimp.
Posted by TheCannyScot in Atlanta, GA on 08/19/12 at 09:54 AM
The precursor to the modern morphine pump used with post-op patients today.
Posted by ScoutC on 08/19/12 at 10:23 AM
Looks like squid, yuck!
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 08/19/12 at 11:09 AM
I'd also bet that this device provided hours and hours of yucking it up around the old water cooler.

The ah.... patients can only thank their lucky stars that YouTube & smart phones hadn't been invented yet.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 08/19/12 at 11:23 PM
They still managed to get a pic of someone with the squid balloon on their head. And, it is on the internet now too.
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 08/19/12 at 11:52 PM
She looks like she has an alien climbing over her face and head!! Its 'feet' are pinching her nose closed, while its 'hands' are clinging to the sides of the poor woman's scalp for dear life! Lol very weird indeed.
Posted by Shayna on 08/23/12 at 03:27 PM
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