Specification of Michael Henry : excluding air in treating bodily injuries.

  • Henry, Michael.
Date:
1864
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Credit: Specification of Michael Henry : excluding air in treating bodily injuries. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Henry s Improvements in Excluding Air in Treating Bodily Injuries. Tagino uterine cavity, having at one end a sponge, and at one part a hollow glass ball for receiving the matters drawn off. A cock opens and closes communication between this ball and the vagino uterine cavity. To regulate the suction produced by the casing a hollow ball is sometimes used, divided 5 by a partition into two compartments, one of which communicates with the casing, while the other acts as a reservoir and regulates the degree of exhaust in the former compartment. The portable receivers may sometimes consist of cases with flexible sides, which collapse when the case is exhausted, and are expanded by a spring, 10 which of itself is not of sufficient strength to expand the case, but will do so when air or gas enters it, and assists the action of the spring. The extent of expansion of the case indicates the state of the vacuum within the casing. Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same may be performed, I declare that I claim, the flexible or 15 elastic impervious casing fitting as described, on the limb or other part to be treated and combined with a pneumatic receiver, or vessel, or chamber which can be exhausted as required, arranged, and acting substantially as set forth. In witness whereof, I, the said Michael Henry, have hereunto set 20 my hand and seal, this Eleventh day of May, in the year One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five. M. HENRY. (l.s.) Witness, S. E. A. Newsome. LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen s most Excellent Majesty. 1865.