IMPROVEMENTS IN PORTABLE MAGNETIC APPLIANCES, IN CONJUNCTION WITH MEDICINAL SUBSTANCES FOR THE CURE OF DISEASES
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Welton, of 13, Grafton Street West, Fitzroy
"
Square, London, in the County of Middlesex, Maker of Artificial Limbs, for
the Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN PORTABLE MAGNETIC APPLIANCES, IN
CONJUNCTION WITH MEDICINAL SUBSTANCES FOR THE CURE OF DISEASES."
ealed the 1st July 1879, and dated the 28th April 1879.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Welton at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 28th April 1879.
THOMAS WELTON, of 13, Grafton Street West, Fitzroy Square, London, in the
County of Middlesex, Maker of Artificial Limbs. "IMPROVEMENTS IN PORTABLE
MAGNETIC APPLIANCES, IN CONJUNCTION WITH MEDICINAL SUBSTANCES FOR THE
CURE OF DISEASES."
.
My Invention has for its object the union or adaptation of portable magnets in
conjunction with medicinal substances to the various parts and all parts of the
human body, for the alleviation and cure of diseases; for this purpose I use small
horseshoe magnets, or thin plates or bars of steel perforated or otherwise, or woven
steel wire, or woven wire cloth, commonly called scratch cloth, or steel filings
imbedded in or covered by any suitable medicinal substance, or laid on cloth, leather,
or any pliant material, and varnished or covered by the appropriate medicinal
substance for the above named purpose, which may be then or before magnetised by
any of the well known processes, and covered by any pliant material such as leather,
cloth, woollen mixtures, cotton wool, silk, or other pliant material, previously steeped
in or saturated by a spirituous tincture or aqueous solution or decoction of the
medicinal substance required for the cure of such complaint, so that by the action
of the magnet or magnets, as before described, in compliance with the substance,
tincture, or aqueous solution, a far greater and more therapeutic effect is produced.
I claim also to affix by any suitable means the magnet or magnets to the cloth or
pliant material (viz., by sowing, or rivetting, or cementing), and form of the said
magnets and medicinal substances, combined respirators, lockets, bracelets, armlets,

page_text: garters, necklets, neckties, waist and other belts, spine bands, chest protectors,
gloves, stomach and other pads, corsets, knee caps, anklets, soles for placing inside
boots and shoes or the soles thereof, caps for the head, stockings, and also the right
to affix in garments or articles of attire, previously steeped in or saturated by the
appropriate inedicinal substances, tincture, or aqueous solution, any of the magnetic
appliance, as before described; and, finally, I claim the right to mix steel filings
with any suitable gummy or resinous material, the appropriate medicinal substance
(and magnetised), and with the mixture form a plaster which may or not be
covered.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Thomas Welton in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 10th July
1879.
THOMAS WELTON, of 13, Grafton Street West, Fitzroy Square, London, in the
County of Middlesex, Maker of Artificial Limbs. "IMPROVEMENTS IN PORTABLE
MAGNETIC APPLIANCES, IN CONJUNCTION WITH MEDICINAL SUBSTANCES FOR THE
CURE OF DISEASES."
My Invention has for its object the union or adaptation of portable magnets, in
conjunction with medicinal substances to the various parts and all parts of the
human body, for the alleviation and cure of diseases; for this purpose I use small
horse shoe magnets, or thin plates or bars of steel, perforated or otherwise, or woven
steel wire, or woven wire cloth, commonly called scratch cloth, or steel filings,
imbedded in or covered by any suitable medicinal substance, or laid on cloth, leather,
or any pliant material, and varnished or covered by the appropriate medicinal
substance for the above named purpose, which may be then or before magnetised by
any of the well known processes, and covered by any pliant material, such as
leather, cloth, woollen mixtures, cotton wool, silk, or other pliant material, previously
steeped in or saturated by a spirituous tincture or aqueous solution, or decoction of
the medicinal substance required for the cure of such complaint, so that by the
action of the magnet or magnets, as before described, in conjunction with the
substance, tincture, or aqueous solution, a far greater and more therapeutic effect is
produced.
I claim also to affix by any suitable means the magnet or magnets to the cloth or
pliant material (viz., by sewing or rivetting, or cementing), and form of the said
imagnets and medicinal substances combined respirators, sockets, bracelets, armlets,
garters, necklets, necties, waist and other belts, spine bands, chest protectors, gloves,
stomach and other pads, corsets, knee caps, anklets, soles for placing inside boots
and shoes, or the soles thereof, caps for the head, stockings, and also the right to
affix in garments or articles of attire, previously steeped in or saturated by the
appropriate medicinal substances, tincture, or aqueous solution, any of the magnetic
appliances, as before described; and, finally, I claim the right to mix steel filings
with any suitable gummy or resinous material, the appropriate medicinal substance
(and magnetised), and with the mixture form a plaster or compound, which may or
not be covered in metal or other material. Finally, I claim the right to use any
medicinal substance in powder or otherwise for the aforesaid purposes, and as before
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Welton, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Tenth day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand
THOMAS WELTON. (L.S.)