IMPROVEMENTS IN THE APPLICATION OF ELECTRICITY OR MAGNETISM TO THE HUMAN BODY FOR THE RELIEF OF PAIN AND CURE OF DISEASE
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Welton, of No. 29, New Compton Street,
Soho, and Edward Henry Cradock Monckton, of the Parthenon Club,
No. 16, Regent Street, both in the County of Middlesex, for the Inven-
tion of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE APPLICATION OF ELECTRICITY OR MAGNETISM
TO THE HUMAN BODY FOR THE RELIEF OF PAIN AND CURE OF DISEASE."
Sealed the 10th May 1861, and dated the 16th November 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Welton and
Edward Henry Cradock Monckton at the Office of the Commissioners
of Patents, with their Petition, on the 16th November 1860.
We, THOMAS WELTON, of No. 29, New Compton Street, Soho, and EDWARD
HENRY CRADOCK MONCKTON, of the Parthenon Club, No. 16, Regent Street,
both in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE APPLICATION OF ELECTRICITY OR MAGNETISM
TO THE HUMAN BODY FOR THE RELIEF OF PAIN AND CURE OF DISEASE," to be as
follows:-
This Invention consists in relieving pain and in curing various deseases of
the human body by applying magnetism or electricity in a simple and efficient
manner, without the use of drugs or medicines.
We propose placing the armature or medium of completing the magnetic
or electric circuit at the back of the part of the body affected, such as forming

page_text: the back of a chair or any or various parts of a couch or bed of metal, or on a
wall, the body being interposed or placed between the armature and the
magnet or battery, thus the magnetic current passes through the body or part
affected before completing the circuit. The armature may be composed of
metallic plates, bars, blocks, chains, wires, or rings united in any convenient
manner. The strength of the current may be graduated by varying the
distance of the magnet or armature from the body, or by using a more or less
powerful magnet or battery or batteries, or both, or by interposing any substance
or covering between either the armature or magnet and the part of the body
to be acted on, one great advantage of this mode of applying magnetism or
electricity being that little or no shock is felt to the human system however
intensely the magnetic power may be applied.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Welton and Edward Henry Cradock Monckton in
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 16th May 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, THOMAS
WELTON, of No. 29, New Compton Street, Soho, and EDWARD HENRY CRADOCK
MONCKTON, of the Parthenon Club, No. 16, Regent Street, both in the County
of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said Thomas Welton and Edward Henry Cradock Monckton, Her special
licence that we, the said Thomas Welton and Edward Henry Cradock
Monckton, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we,
the said Thomas Welton and Edward Henry Cradock Monckton, our exe-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE APPLI-
CATION OF ELECTRICITY OR MAGNETISM TO THE HUMAN BODY FOR THE RELIEF OF
PAIN AND CURE OF DISEASE," upon the condition (amongst others) that we,
the said Thomas Welton and Edward Henry Cradock Monckton, our exe-
cutors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or their, or

page_text: one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be
performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Welton, do hereby declare
the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, that is to say:
This Invention consists in relieving pain and in curing various diseases of the
human body, by applying magnetism or electricity in a simple and efficient
manner, without the use of drugs or medicines.
In order to explain our said Invention as completely as possible, we now
proceed to describe the best means we are acquainted with for carrying the
same into practical effect, as follows:-
We place the armature or medium of completing the the magnetic or
electric current at the back of the part of the body affected, both body and
armature being insulated from the ground by the interposition of glass or any
other non-conducting medium, such as forming the back of a chair or any or
various parts of a couch or bed of metal, insulated by glass legs or otherwise
as may be required, or on a wall, the body being similarly insulated and
interposed or placed between the armature and the magnet or battery, thus
the magnetic current passes through the body or part affected before com-
pleting the circuit. The armature may be composed of metallic plates, bars,
blocks, chains, wires, or rings united in any convenient manner. The strength
of the current may be graduated by varying the distance of the magnet or
magnets or armature from the body, or by using a more or less powerful
magnet or magnets, or battery or batteries, or both, or by interposing any
substance or covering between either the armature or magnet and the part of
the body to be acted on, one great advantage of this mode of applying
magnetism or electricity being that in no case is a shock felt to the human
system however intensely the magnetic power may be applied, the only sensations
produced being those of an occasional slight tingling and, a slight glow or
warmth in the parts effected.
Having now described the nature of our said Invention of "Improvements in
the Application of Electricity or Magnetism to the Human Body for the Relief
of Pain and Cure of Disease," and the manner in which the same is to be
performed, we would remark, in conclusion, that what we claim as our
Invention, and therefore wish to be secured to us by the herein in part

page_text: recited Letters Patent is, the relieving of pain and curing disease of the
human body by the application of electricity or magnetism in the manner
herein described and set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Welton (on behalf of myself
and the said Edward Henry Cradock Monckton) have hereunto set 5
my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
Witness,
ALEX. PRINCE,
Agent for Patents,
4, Trafalgar Square,
Charing Cross.
THOMAS WELTON. (L.S.)