Means for Producing Physiological and Medicinal Effects upon Men, Animals, and Plants, applicable also for Accelerating the Orystallization of Substances and the Maturing of Wine.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Sept., 1891-Accepted, 16th Jan., 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Means for Producing Physiological and Medicinal Effects upon
Men, Animals, and Plants, applicable also for Accelerating the
Orystallization of Substances and the Maturing of Wine.
A communication from OSKAR KORSCHELT, of 70, Südstrasse, Leipzig, Saxony,
German Empire, Chemist.
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex,
M.I.M.E., do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
The invention described by the following concerns a new process or method
and apparatus for making profit of the vs vira of the ether. The electro-dynamical
theory of William Weber about the nature of the smallest particles leads to the
result that the ether being identical with the electrical particles of Weber rotates
around all solid bodies within a certain distance from them, this being effected
by the attraction of the free positive ether-particles from the part of the negative
ether-particles in the molecules of the solid bodies. By a corresponding arrange-
ment of suitable solid bodies it cannot but be possible to condense and to direct
the ether moving irregularly. Such arrangements are made in the apparatus to be
described.
These apparatus are constructed after the same principles and their effects are
almost the same; they may all be employed for purposes when an augmentation of
the vis viva of the ether is intended. The distinction of these apparatus after their
especial application is only a practical one and caused by the form of the objects
to be acted upon.
In order to increase the effect of the apparatus, an electric current may be
led through them. As an electric current consists of free positive and negative
ether-particles which tend to unite themselves, the number of free negative ether-
particles in the wires of the apparatus is enlarged together with the diameter
of the ether-whirl and the number of the positive ether-particles flung away by
the apparatus.
In the accompanying drawings
Figs. 1-3 show an apparatus used to influence upon the vegetation of plants,
Fig. 3 is a link of the column.
Figs. 4-5 show a tube used to accelerate the maturity of spirituous beverages.
Fig. 6 is an apparatus used to accelerate crystallization.
Figs. 7-12 show discs for medicinal purposes and its application upon men.
In all these apparatus there are wires bent to spirals or in other manner which
induce the ether-particles entering into the sphere of attraction of the wires to
rotate round them and to accumulate on certain points, a certain quantity of
vis vira being thus deposited on these points.
The simplest case is represented by Fig. 6, a wire being wound on a cylinder or
truncated cone. A body in the interior of the spiral is surrounded by the ether-
whirls which rotate around the wires and moreover penetrated in straight line by
the ether-particles flung away by the whirls. It is easily to be seen that this will
take place more frequently towards the interior of the spiral than outward and
most frequently when the pitch of the spiral is smaller than the diameter of the
sphere of activity of the wires. The end planes of the cylinder may also be
provided with spiral wires, the object to be acted upon being then surrounded by
spiral wires from all sides.
By such an arrangement the crystallization of salts for instance may considerably
be accelerated. The crystallizing in this case does not begin from the inner side

page_text: of the vessel, as commonly, but from the middle which fact sufficiently verifies the
explication aforesaid, the centre of the condensation sphere being situated within
the axis of the cylinder.
The arrangement Figs. 4-5 shows two spirals rolled in opposite directions upon
a bottle or a tube. The effect is quite the same as in Fig. 6. A bottle of wine
being put into such a tube, the wine will mature within a few months, whilst.in
other cases years are necessary for this purpose.
The column A, Fig. 1, consists of a massive core a in combination with many
links b, Fig. 3, filed upon it. Between these links b goes a wire of copper or
other material forming a spiral or other curve. The whirls produced on the free
ends of the links 6 by the effect of the spiral d the core a and the links themselves
are emitted outward, and influence the vegetation of plants standing around.
A simpler construction consists of two strong wires with numerous wire-pieces
squeezed between them. The strong wires are then exposed to a torsion strain the
whole receiving by this means the form of a screw-stairs. A copper spiral is put
in in the same manner as in Fig. 1.
The apparatus Figs. 7-12 have the form of discs. Both sides of the disc are
covered with a spiral, the ends of both wires being connected through the middle.
The ether-particles will accumulate then in the middle and will be flung in a
vertical direction. In order to increase the extent of the whirl on the wires there
may be employed a chain of spiral-links (Fig. 10) instead of a single wire.
The arrangement Fig. 12 shows the wire in the form of a star. In this case the
ether parts will accumulate on the place where the points approach, that is in the
middle of the disc. Consequently the parts are emitted in the same manner as in
Fig. 10.
By means of these discs physiological and medicinal effects may be produced
upon men, animals and plants.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, as communicated to me by my foreign correspondent, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is;-
1. The process of utilizing the vis viva of the ether by producing spheres of
condensation of the ether on suitable solid bodies as wires, pierced discs and the
like through which may be led electric currents.
2. A wire spiral simple or composed, round bottles and other vessels for the
purpose of accelerating according to the process mentioned above, physical,
chemical and physiological proceedings as crystallization, maturing of wine and
the like.
3. A column with a massive core a, a spiral d and many links 6 for the purpose of
influencing the vegetation of plants and similar proceedings after the process
mentioned above.
4. Discs with wires or spiral chains fixed upon them in the form of spirals or
stars for similar purposes as the apparatus mentioned above especially for
producing physiological and medicinal effects upon men, animals and plants.
Dated this 15th day of September 1891.