Specification of Bristow Hunt : physiological battery.

  • Hunt, Bristow.
Date:
1873
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Bristow Hunt : physiological battery. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hunt's Improved Physiological or “ Button ” Battery. superior flexibility of this improved battery renders it the most con¬ venient and effective in the treatment of old indolent ulcers, and for wear upon uneven bony surfaces or projections of the body and limbs, as upon the spine, ankles, or wrists, which results cannot be attained with any other form of battery. 5 These advantages are secured by the use of the connecting wires at the back, which allow of the buttons or discs being used upon a base, the whole being flexible. The use of the single element of zinc and copper is valuable, and well known to the medical profession, but the batteries have hitherto been 10 made of stiff and uncomfortable materials, and so far impracticable that they could not be adapted to the parts desired with a surface large enough to effect a cure; but according to the present Invention the single element battery is made very available and more fitted to perform its functions properly. 15 Having now described the nature and object of the said Invention for “ An Improved Physiological or ‘ Button ’ Battery,” together with the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or carried into practical effect, I would remark in conclusion that I claim as the Inven¬ tion (communicated to me by the above-named Alfred Charles Garratt,) 20 the improved construction and application of a well-known form of physiological battery substantially as above described, and is illustrated on the accompanying Drawings, whereby such battery is rendered much more advantageous and available in its application and reliable in its use for the purposes above set forth. 25 N 1 In witness whereof, I, the said Bristow Hunt,-have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of February, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three. BEISTOW HUNT, (l.s.) LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. 1873.