A valved medicament delivery device including a housing having a chamber
including coaxially aligned inlet and outlet, a medicament cartridge
located within the chamber having a passage therethrough and membranes
sealing the passage having a burst pressure of less than 10 atmospheres,
a manually actuatable fluid delivery device having an outlet in fluid
communication with the chamber and a manually actuated valve located
between the outlet of the fluid delivery device and the chamber inlet for
delivery of fluid under pressure to the valve. The medicament delivery
device of this invention may be utilized to deliver a controlled unit
dose of an medicament on demand by first pressurizing a pressure chamber
in the pressure delivery device upstream of the valve, then opening the
valve to open the membranes and express the medicament through the
chamber outlet.