Sidney Yankauer, M.D. (1872-1932), an ear, nose and throat specialist and pioneer in bronchoscopy, practiced at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Dr. Yankauer might best be known for the tube he designed for suctioning the mouth and throat. Yankauer introduced the wire-mesh anesthesia mask around 1904. James Tayloe Gwathmey, M.D. (1862-1944) was one of the first physicians to have a full-time private anesthesia practice in the United States. By 1914, he modified the Yankauer Mask to administer oxygen with the anesthetic. Oxygen tubing attached to the port at the narrow end of the mask, and oxygen exited through the small holes around the rim.
This device was used to measure the condition of blood by visually counting the number of cells in a blood sample under a microscope. Used in the United States.
A postcard featuring a colored image of the Windsor Hotel in Jacksonville, Fla. The back reads, "The Windsor Hotel, especially favored by wealthy tourists and other visitors, faces Hemming Park, and its unusually well-placed dining rooms and other facilities give it a pleasing attractiveness and tone of quiet hominess appreciated by its many highly distinguished guests."
