title: Alfred Fleisch (1892-1973): professor of physiology at the University of Tartu, Estonia.
abstract: Alfred Fleisch was a Swiss physiologist who invented several medical devices, among them a device for measuring airflow known as Fleischs's pneumotachometre. The airflow measurers - transducers - are still well known and are used all over the world in different varieties of spirograph.
authors.affiliation: University of Tartu, Estonia. peet-henn.kingisepp@ut.ee
authors.forename: Peet-Henn
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Kingisepp
mesh_terms: D001775:Blood Circulation; D002621:Chemistry / Q000266:history; D004957:Estonia; D005180:Faculty, Medical / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D010827:Physiology / Q000266:history*; D013557:Switzerland