Louis Agassiz Shaw

Louis Agassiz Shaw

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.Sherwood, R. J. "Obituaries: Philip Drinker 1894–1972." "The Annals of Occupational Hygiene." Vol. 16, pp. 93-94. Pergamon Press 1973. [http://annhyg.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/16/1/93 Available online by subscription.] ]

A year earlier, he had been arrested for distilling alcohol,Beam, Alex. "Gracefully Insane: Life and Death Inside America's Premier Mental Hospital." Public Affairs, 2003. Pg. 170 footnote. ISBN 1586481614. [http://books.google.com/books?id=XfyfgrylvM4C&printsec=frontcover#PPA170,M1 Preview available online.] ] which was illegal during Prohibition.

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