Specification of John Lewis Prichard : relieving pain in the human body.

  • Prichard, John Lewis.
Date:
1860
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Credit: Specification of John Lewis Prichard : relieving pain in the human body. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A.D. 1859, 26 th October . N° 2449. Relieving Pain in the Human Body. LETTERS PATENT to John Lewis Prichard, of Dowlais, in the County of Glamorgan, Chemist, for tlie Invention of “ A New Method op Relieving Pain in the Human Body.” Sealed the 24th April 1860, and dated the 26th October 1859. PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Lewis Prichard at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 26th October 1859. I, John Lewis Prichard, of Dowlais, in the County of Glamorgan, Chemist, 5 do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “ A New Method of Relieving Pain in the Human Body,” to be as follows:— This Invention consists in the use of alleviative drugs in combination with a battery to act upon the various parts of the human body wherein pain may be seated, such as rheumatism, paralysis, nervousness, indigestion, chronic 10 deseases, first stages of consumption, deficient circulation of the blood, coldness of the extremities, and other local pains, said drugs being well known to .the faculty. These drugs, such as opium, chlorate of potash, and other alleviative drugs, to suit the nature of the complaint, are to be applied or thrown into the blood, or applied to the parts affected, by means of a battery or batteries, and 15 insulated wire, placed in such a form as to aid the uniformity of the current, by which means the fluid is applied in one continuous current.