Louis Agassiz Shaw

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Louis Agassiz Shaw was an American medical professor and inventor. He worked at Harvard University where he invented the first widely used iron lung with Philip Drinker in 1928.[1]

A year earlier, he had been arrested for distilling alcohol,[2] which was illegal during Prohibition.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Sherwood, R. J. "Obituaries: Philip Drinker 1894–1972." The Annals of Occupational Hygiene. Vol. 16, pp. 93-94. Pergamon Press 1973. Available online by subscription.
  2. ^ Beam, Alex. Gracefully Insane: Life and Death Inside America's Premier Mental Hospital. Public Affairs, 2003. Pg. 170 footnote. ISBN 1586481614. Preview available online.
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