Specification of John Henry Johnson : apparatus for treating diseases.

  • Johnson, John Henry.
Date:
1869
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of John Henry Johnson : apparatus for treating diseases. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Johnson's Improved Apparatus for Treating Diseases. coyer and removable front or shell, the joints being packed tight with india-rubber, the shell or front being further secured when adjusted in position by any convenient fastening. If desired glazed windows may be provided for enabling the progress of the treatment to be inspected by the medical attendant. The neck of the patient passes 5 through a ring packed with india-rubber and provided with an india- rubber cap or hood which encloses the head leaving the face only exposed. An air inlet valve is provided for admitting fresh air when required into the receiver, which is furnished with a vacuum guage and flexible air tubes in connection with an air pump, as also with qo electrical wires for the application of electricity to the patient when requisite. In conjunction with this main vacuum receiver are employed other auxiliary receivers for the reception of the limbs whilst the patient is still within the main receiver, such auxiliary receivers enabling an increased vacuum to be applied to any of the limbs if requisite. It is 15 also proposed to employ either with or without the use of the main receiver minor auxiliary receivers or vacuum cups which are intended for local application to the parts immediately affected, each cup being provided with a flexible air tube in connection with an air pump and with electric wires. These vacuum cups may be used either with or 20 without electricity when applied to the part affected within a partial vacuum but when applied to the patient outside the receiver they should be used in combination with electric currents. Glass windows may be provided in the various vacuum cups or auxiliary receivers to enable the part to he inspected whilst under treatment. Medicated vapour 25 when required is introduced into the receiver or auxiliary receiver or cups through a tube provided for the purpose. The effect of the above mode of treatment is to cause the blood and nervo-vital fluids to fill the capillary vessels in every part of the body or in any particular part according as the treatment be general or local, thereby removing 30 internal congestion, conveying the nutrative fluids as equally as possible to every part of the system, and carrying the waste and dead matter from the various parts of the body, thereby restoring vitality and healthy action. And in order that the said Invention may he fully understood I shall 35 now proceed more particularly to describe the same and for that purpose shall refer to the several Figures on the annexed Sheet of Drawings, the same letters of reference indicating corresponding parts in all the Figures.