Specification of Alexander Robertson : applying heat or cold to the human body.

  • Robertson, Alexander.
Date:
1871
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    Provision al 8peciflcatioii. Rohertsmi^s Imp.ts.in Applying Heat or Cold to the Human Body. and equable op nearly equable temperature at any part of the body desired^ also to enable that to be/ effected with a minimum disturbance to the patient. The apparatus for effecting the foregoing objects, consists of bags of various shapes made of vulcanized cloth, vulcanized . india-rubber, or other waterproof fabric, and divided into two or more 5 campartments. The bags are provided with two or more openings, having pipes attached thereto, through one or more of which water of the desired temperature is forced or admitted from a reservoir, or is poured in from a vessel by the hand, and which passing through the bag brings it to the temperature desired, after which it is discharged 10 through the other pipe or pipes. By naeans of this Invention a constant or intermittent flow through the apparatus can be maintained. This Invention also includes the use of the bags herein-before referred to without inlet or outlet pipes attached, or with only one such pipe, as the hags constructed with compartments as herein-before described 15 are of less capacity and weight than the bags at present used, and are therefore more easily borne by the patient. In place of applying the apparatus herein-before referred to direct to the human body they may be used to raise or maintain the tem¬ perature of any intervening poultice, fomentation, or other aj>plication, 20 and they may also be employed for passing into the “ vagina,” uterus^ rectum, or other parts of the human body requiring dilation or support. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,, filed by the said Alexander Bobertson in the Great Seal Patent Ofiioe on the 15th September 1871. 25 TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PEESENTS SHALL COME, I, Alexander Hobertson, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain, send greeting. WHEEEAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Eifteenth day of March, in the year 3Q of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the 8oth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Alexander Bohertson, Her special license that I, the said Alexander Bohertson, my executors, adminis¬ trators^ and assigns, or such others as I, the said Alexander Bohertson, 35