IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS FOR ELECTRO THERAPEUTIC TREATMENT OR SO-CALLED ELECTRIC BATHS
Year: 1884

page_text: I SHACKLETON HALLETT of 1 Hare Court Temple in the city of London Esquire
Barrister at Law do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for
IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS FOR ELECTRO THERAPEUTIC TREATMENT OR SO-CALLED
ELECTRIC BATHS to be as follows:-
"
This invention relates to improvements in means for electro-therapeutic treatment
of human beings or improvements in so-called electric baths, the object being to
employ electricity obtained from the dynamo electric machine wound and connected
for currents of large quantity and moderate intensity and electrically connected to
the apparatus employed through a system of connecting rods and terminal holders
or appliances and thence to the body of the patient or person under treatment the
current being regulated intermediately of the poles by a resistance board having
thereon & liquid telescopic glass tube regulator the inner telescoping portion having
platinum terminals which will be approached to or withdrawn from corresponding
terminals in the outer barrel of the telescopic tubes in combination with the
metallic coils or convolutions of the resistance board and in connection or not with
induction coil or coils. The body will have to form part of the circuit and the
connection whether from the anode or cathode pole will be effected to one part of
the body by water connection in form of ascending or descending stream or
streams or jet or jets (douche) applied through telescopic metallic tubes for
conveying the liquid and fitted with connectors for conveying the current to the
liquid, or there may be used metallic holders for moistened sponge with connectors
for the electric current conducting wires these holders having insulated handles.
The opposite pole will be put in circuit with the body by means of cathode or
anode plate or it may be the metallic body of a liquid receptacle (bath) separated
from the body by basket work or any porous material the receptacle to contain
liquid rendered conductive by warmth or addition of chemical matter. Or the
receptacle may be made of non-conducting material with metallic outlets or inlets
to which are applied connectors or metallic sheets or plates cathode or anode may
be suspended in the liquid in the receptacle (both) or the circuit may be completed
by metallic connection to any part of the body of the person under treatment
whether by application onto or into the portions of the body to be affected whether
for electrolysis or stimulation.
WALTER A. BARLOW,
6, St. Paul's Churchyard, E.C.

page_text: I SHACKLETON HALLETT of 1 Hare Court Temple London Esquire Barrister at
Law do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS
FOR ELECTRO-THERAPEUTIC TREATMENT, OR SO-CALLED ELECTRIC BATHS" and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to improvements in means for electro-therapeutic treatment
of human beings or improvements in so-called electric-baths, the object being to
employ electricity obtained from the dynamo-electric machine wound and connected
for currents of large quantity and moderate intensity and electrically connected to
the apparatus employed through a system of connecting rods and terminal holders
or appliances and thence to the body of the patient or person under treatment the
current being regulated intermediately of the poles by a resistance board having
thereon a liquid telescopic glass tube regulator the inner telescoping portion having
platinum terminals which will be approached to or withdrawn from corresponding
terminals in the outer barrel of the telescopic tubes in combination with the
metallic coils or convolutions of the resistance board and in connection or not with
induction coil-or-coils. The body of the patient will have to form part of the
circuit and the connection whether whether from the anode-or-cathode pole will be
effected to one part of the body by water connection in form of ascending or
decending stream or streams or jet or jets (douche) applied through telescopic
metallic tubes for conveying the liquid and fitted with connectors for conveying
the current to the liquid or there may be used metallic holders for moistened
sponge with connections for the electric current conducting wires, these holders
having insulated handles. The opposite pole will be put in circuit with the body
by means of cathode or anode plate or it may be the metallic body of a liquid
receptacle (bath) separated from the body by basket work or any porous material,
the receptacle to contain liquid rendered conductive by warmth or addition of
chemical matter; or the receptacle may be made of non conducting material with
metallic outlets or inlets to which are applied connectors or metallic sheets, or
plates cathode or anode may be suspended in the liquid in the receptacle (both) or
the circuit may be completed by metallic connection to any part of the body of the
person under treatment whether by application onto or into the portions of the
'body to be affected whether for electrolysis or stimulation.
In order that the said invention may be well understood I have hereunto annexed
a sheet of drawings illustrative thereof wherein :-Fig. 1 is sectional side view of
bath fitted with the anode and cathode connections from the dynamo machine as
specified; Fig. 2 is a plan; Fig. 3 is a combined strigel or electrical conductor
combined with an insulating arm guard.
Figs 4, 4ª and 4b are electrical conductors fitted to an arm or rod connected with
current connections, and for applying the electricity from either pole as may be
required. Fig 5 represents a distributor hand applianco for administering the
electric-douche.
Fig. 6 is a sectional view of sita-bath and foot bath with electrical connections.
In the employment of baths of this kind the procedure will be somewhat as
follows: a Fig 1 is the resistance board b is the water regulator in connection,
c, d, are the current conveying rods which may be laid around the bath room or
chamber and from thence the insulated wires are carried to the bath appliances
from the connectors e. The bath f is hung or fitted with webbings nets or cloths, g
or these may give place to wickerwork seats rests or plaques covered or not
immersed in the bath liquid for supporting the body in the bath.

page_text: The connections are for ordinary purposes connected to anode and cathode
plates h, h¹ or the appliances Figs 3, 4, 4* 46 and 5 may be employed in substitution
for or in combination with, one or the other (as the case may be) of the plates h h¹
or, where the bath is of metal one or other of the connectors can be attached to
the bath itself and the other connector anode or cathode will be attached to one or
other of the appliances to be employed as desired.
In Fig. 6 wherein is represented the sitz-bath similar connections are employed
but the water connection to the body of the patient will be through the foot bath k
connected (anode or cathode) substantially as shown and before described and
other water conducting appliances of metal such as the syringe or jet or the
telescopic jet m or the douche Fig 5. these conveying at once water and electricity
whereby the electricity may be applied to the body.
In the handle of the appliances a spring current interrupter will be employed as
shown at o Fig 4 and when the long arm is employed a universal joint p is intro-
duced so that the distributor may be set to and applied at any angle. The current
distributor appliances Figs 3, 4, 4 and 4b will break up the current discharging
from the several points or plates and may be applied directly to the body or be
approached within a shorter or greater distance of the body according to the
strength of current and the bath solution employed.
In using the baths for the electrolytic treatment of disease either from the
extraction from the body of deleterious substance or the electro-chemical assimilation
with the body of such atomic substances as may be desired by the faculty, the
patient may be connected in the "bath" with one pole, and in connection with the
other pole, there will be employed hollow metallic needles having apertures at
their ends through which any desired solution or gaseous matter may be introduced
by and through the electric needle into such portion of the body as is to be treated
for curative purposes as for instance in hydatids of the liver, cancer, tubercoles or
tumours. By way of the hollow of the needle tube discharges of matter, or gases
may be withdrawn.
In treatment of patients whose system is impregnated with deleterious metallic
substances as for instance load poisoning the bath shown in Fig 1 may be employed
and the patient be connected direct to the requisite pole, the solution employed
being prepared according to the metal to be extracted.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:-
Firstly. In electro-therapeutic treatment of human beings the dynamo-electric
machine prepared for currents of large quantity and moderate intensity connected
with the electric bath or current distributing appliances as and for the purpose
herein set forth.
Secondly. In the connections of dynamo-electric machines with electric bath
appliances as set forth the resistance board a b as and for the purpose herein specified.
Thirdly. In so-called electric baths the appliances made with hollow mechanical
connections to act as conduits, and with electrical connections for the purpose of
applying conducted material together with electricity as herein set forth."
Fourthly. In electric baths as herein set forth the electrical distributor shown in
Figs 3, 4, 40 and 4b of the drawings.
Datad this 15th day of Tona 100