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

  • Robertson, Alexander.
Date:
1871
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Credit: Specification of Alexander Robertson : applying heat or cold to the human body. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    O llohertsoyi^s Impts. in Applying Heat or Cold to the Human Body. my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain 6 and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for Improvements in Applying Heat or Cold to the Human Body, and in the Apparatus or Means Employed therefor, such Apparatus being Applicable AS Pessaries or Dilators,” upon the condition (amongst others) that 1, the said Alexander Hohertson, by an instrument in writing under my 10 hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to he performed, and cause the same to he filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent. 15 NOW Know ye, that L said AleS:ander BohertsDn, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement, reference being had to the accompanying Drawings, and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to 20 say:— My said Invention which relates to improvements in applying heat or cold to the human body has for its object the production of a regu¬ lated and equable or nearly equable temperature at any part of the body desired, also to enable that to be effected with a minimum distmbance 25 to the patient. The apparatus for effecting the foregoing objects consists of bags of various shapes made of vulcanized india-rubber, vulcanized cloth, or other waterproof fabric, and divided into two or more compartments. The bags are provided with two or more openings having pipes attached 30 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, or is injected by a syringe, and which passing through the bag brings it to the temperature desired, after which it is discharged through the other pipe or pipes. By means of this Invention a constant 35 or intermittent flow through the apparatus can be maintained. And in order that my said Invention may he properly understood I now proceed more particularly to set foi th the system, mode, or manner