A SAFE MEANS AND BENEFICIAL REMEDY FOR EXPELLING THE GOUT FROM THE HEAD, STOMACH, AND VITAL PARTS OF PERSONS SO AFFLICTED, ASSUAGING THE PAROXYSMS EVEN IN THE MOST DANGEROUS CASES, AND AFTERWARDS CURING SUCH, AS WELL AS OTHER GOUTY PERSONS, WITHOUT ANY MEDICINE, PLAISTER, OR OTHER SUCH APPLICATION WHATEVER, EITHER INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL
Year: 1793

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHRISTOPHER
GULLETT, of the City of Exeter, Esquire, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, in and by His
Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster on or about the First day of
this present month of April, in the thirty-third year of His Majesty's reign,
reciting that I, the said Christopher Gullett, had represented to His said
Majesty that I had found out and discovered "A SAFE MEANS AND BENEFICIAL
REMEDY FOR EXPELLING THE GOUT FROM THE HEAD, STOMACH, AND VITAL PARTS
OF PERSONS SO AFFLICTED, ASSUAGING THE PAROXYSMS EVEN IN THE MOST DANGEROUS
CASES, AND AFTERWARDS CURING SUCH, AS WELL AS OTHER GOUTY PERSONS, WITHOUT
ANY MEDICINE, PLAISTER, OR OTHER SUCH APPLICATION WHATEVER, EITHER INTERNAL
OR EXTERNAL," and had prayed as therein mentioned, His said Majesty did, of
His especial grace, certain knowledge, and meer motion, give and grant unto
me, 'the said Christopher Gullett, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
His especial license, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by myself and them-
selves, or by my or their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others
as I, my executors, administrators or assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term of years therein expressed, should aud lawfully might make, use, exercise,

page_text: and vend my said Invention within that part of the Kingdom of Great
Britain called England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, in such manner as to me, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or any of them, in my or their discretions seem meet; and that I, the said
Christopher Gullett, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should and
lawfully might have, hold, and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and
advantage from time to time coming, growing, accruing, and arising by reason
of the said Invention, for and during the term of years therein expressed, to
have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said license, powers, privileges, and advan-
tages, under me, the said Christopher Gullett, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, for and during and unto the full end and term of fourteen years
from the date of the said Letters Patent next and immediately ensuing, and
fully to be compleat and ended according to the Statute in such case made and
provided, and containing such farther and other grants, privileges, clauses, and
powers, for me, the said Christopher Gullett, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, having and enjoying the full benefit and the sole use and exercise of
the said Invention, according to His Majesty's gracious intention therein
declared, as are therein-after mentioned and expressed, as in and by the said
Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, will more fully appear; in
which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if I should not
describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within one calendar month next and immediately after the date of
the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent should cease,
determine, and become void.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Christopher Gullett, in compliance with
the said last-recited provisoe, do hereby describe, specify, and ascertain the
nature of my said Invention to be, and do hereby declare that my Safe Means
and Beneficial Remedy for Expelling the Gout from the Head, Stomach, and
Vital Parts of Persons so afflicted, and Assuaging the Paroxysms even in the
most Dangerous Cases, as herein-before described, were and are the use and
application of lightning (otherwise called electrical fluid or electricity), which, for
this hitherto-deemed incurable disorder, and in those cases I pronounce to be a
specific, by the due use and proper application of which the said persons so
afflicted, as well as other gouty persons, may be safely, easily, and expeditiously
cured, without any medicine, plaister, or other such application whatever, either
internal or external. And here the said Specification might end, and I might
go so far as to say doth end. But for the more particularly describing how

page_text: and in what manner the same may be performed, by and for the instruction
of persons ignorant of the management of electrical machines and of the
electrical fluid, and how even such persons as never saw the electrical machine
may safely, easily, and expeditiously be taught to cure this "opprobrium
medicorum," the gout, which, in the head and stomach particularly, hath
hitherto been deemed not only incurable (unless by the strength of nature),
but so very dangerous as scarce to admit of any attempt to expell it, though
the patients were even at the last extremity, and frequently died in the greatest
agonies for want of some immediately effectual remedy, as every City and Town
in the Kingdom can witness to their sorrow), I, the said Christopher Gullett,
do hereby subjoin as a part of the said Specification an extract from the
substance of the instructions (as thus far settled), which I intend to get printed
for my deputies, servants, agents, and such other persons as I may hereafter
license or agree with (viz.), from the Patentee's instructions to the licensees
(that is, persons licensed).
1st. For expelling the gout from the head and stomach.-Let the electrical
machine, being dry, free from dust, and warm, be placed on a table as near
the patient's bed as convenient (the cylinder and conductor standing end-
ways towards the patient's side). Then let a wire be fastened to the brass ball
fixed in the end of the conductor for conveying the electrical fluid to that part
of the patient's head where the greatest pain is, by the licensee's holding the
glass handle (having a brass ball screwed into it), and the other end of the wire
twisted round it, and, applying the ball to the patient's head; let another wire
be fastened to the knob or crook at the back of the cushion behind the
cylinder, and the other end of that wire (having a brass knob wrapt in
flannell either with or without a brass handle) lain upon or held to the patient's
breast where the greatest pain is; when the machine begins to be turned and
worked, the fluid, being conveyed as aforesaid by the licensee from the conductor.
to the patient's head, will pass from thence to the breast, and there will be.
attracted by the brass knob and conveyed back by the wire to supply the.
cushion of the machine, and thus form a circuit and current of electrical fluid
round and round continually. In this case the cushion is and must continue
insulated by the glass stem, (and no chain or wire must be hung behind it for.
supplying it with fluid, as in common cases, from the table). After working
thus for six or ten minutes, the balls may be varied and shifted, and so every
two or three minutes, until, you have gone all round the head and breast, and
then return to the principal places again. For the better illustration of this
article, I have added a small Figure in the margin with explanations.
2d. In cases of the head only the fluid to be passed in like manner from

page_text: one side of the head and temple to the other, and so all round the head,
and from the crown to the neck and back, so as to pass quite through the head
in different, opposite, and oblique directions, and also from the crown of the
head to the hips and below the knees.....
3rd. In cases of the stomach only, the fluid, may be in like manner applied
to the neck and back, and drawn off at the breat, and also vice versâ, shifting
the balls as above. :.
4th. In: common fits of the gout, suppose in the hands and feet, apply a
wire from the conductor, to one hand, and draw off the fluid to the other hand
or foot, and so vice versâ, reversing and transversing it.
5th. From a quarter to twenty minutes or half an hour at a time will be
fully sufficient in all cases, which may be repeated several times a day if
desired or thought necessary; but remember to finish every operation and
leave off by applying the "fluid to the head," and drawing it off below..the
knees" for some minutes, which will always effectually secure both head and
stomach, and all this without any, shock, or the patient feeling any pain
whatever...
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6th. For dissolving,. r. ducing... and dissipating, chalk. stones, enlarged joints,
&c. &c., a current or stream of the fluid, must be passed through. the. affected
parts, suppose the middle joints of the fingers, from the outside of the fore
finger to the outside of the little finger (or contrary wise), as. from the head to
the stomach, and so of other enlarged joints, &c... In all cases, if the patient
can be insulated, and the more perfect the insulation is, so much the better;
for want of glass legs a chair may be tolerably well insulated by placing its
legs on four large cakes of beeswax laid on a piece of silk. spread on the floor.
Sparks, may be drawn in any of the cases from any of the affected parts with
next to no pain, or very small, shocks may be given from a very small tube.or
jar, which are very little pain, and will tend to expedite the cure....I, several
years ago, thought of a method of electrifying ever so large. a number. of
patients for different complaints, all at the same time, with only one, machine,
and equally or more powerfull than singly in the common way. ...I have also
thought of making a more powerfull conductor than any of the same size I have
yet known, by making, as it were, a nest of conductors within each other, and
soldered to each other at a particular place.or_two,.beginning with the smallest
and enclosing it within a larger one, and so on to, the number. of half a dozen
or more, leaving a space, of about a quarter of an, inch clear. between. each
other; I call them gout conductors, the sparks from which I expect will be
powerfull. A few hours' practise and attention to the instructions.will make
any person of good common sense and capacity.. sufficiently.. master of, the

page_text: subject and machine to perform any of the before-described operations with
success.
In witness whereof, I, the said Christopher Gullett, have to this Instru-
ment in writing (being first duely stampt) set my hand and seal, this
Twenty-seventh day of April, in the thirty-third year of His Majesty's
reign, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and
ninety-three. 1793.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-seventh day of April,
in the year of our Lord 1793, the aforesaid Christopher Gullett came before
our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Indenture
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according
to the tenor of the Statutes made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-seventh day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and ninety-three.