Specification of John Henry Johnson : apparatus for supporting the womb.

  • Johnson, John Henry.
Date:
1862
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of John Henry Johnson : apparatus for supporting the womb. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Provisional Johnsons New or Improved Apparatus for Supporting the Womb. * pieces, situate on diametrically opposite sides of the ring, the opposite ends of the link pieces being respectively jointed to the outer ends of two expanding wings or womb supporters. These wings are jointed or hinged together in the centre of the apparatus, similar joints or hinges being formed across the ring for the purpose of enabling the apparatus to be closed or contracted, when being 5 inserted into the vagina and expanded or opened out, when properly adjusted in its place. In their expanded state the upper surfaces of the wings form an efficient support to the neck of the womb, the apparatus being retained in its place by the entrace of the fleshy parts into suitable recesses, or indentations made for that purpose on the upper surfaces of the wings. The ring when 10 the apparatus is applied also opens out and fits against the lips of the vagina, so as to maintain a free passage for the fluids and secretions. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said John Henry Johnson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 26th May 1862. 15 TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, John Henry Johnson, of 47, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, in the County of Middlesex, and of 166, Buchanan Street, in the City of Glasgow, North Britain, Gentleman, send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters 20 Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of November, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said John Henry Johnson, Her special license that I, the said John Henry Johnson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such 25 others as I, the said John Henry Johnson, my executors, administrators, or 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 and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Inven- 30 tion for “ A New or Improved Apparatus for Supporting the Womb in Cases of Prolapsus Uteri,” a communication from abroad by Otto Langgaard, of Berlin, in the Kingdom of Prussia, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Henry Johnson, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, or under the hand and seal 35 of one of them, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the