The institutional history of physical therapy: its schools, societies, wards and apparatus, 1813 onward.

Five sections
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Apparatus

The machines, instruments, and objects that defined clinical practice — documented as historical objects, not as equipment recommendations.

A rusted metal iron lung with round portholes displayed on a museum stand
Drinker's cabinet of 1928, then Emerson's cheaper revision three years later.Photo: Drinker iron lung · Wikimedia Commons