Year: 1894

page_text: rate of Application (in United Kingdom), 22nd Nov., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Nov., 1894-Accented, 23rd Mar., 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I CHARLES EVERETT HEBARD, of the City of Grand Rapids, Kent County,
Michigan, United States of America, Physician, 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:-
This invention relates to improvements in temporary electrical batteries for
medicinal purposes, and its objects are: first, to provide a battery that will become
excited by contact with the secretions of the uterus and vagina; and, second, to
provide a battery that may be made to apply the fumes of a volatile medicinal
compound simultaneously with the electrical application. I attain these objects by
the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Fig. 1, is a vertical section of the battery; Fig. 2, is an elevation, and Fig. 3,
is a sectional plan of the same.
Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the drawings.
The central tube A, of my device is perforated and provided at the upper end
with an air-tight stopper g, having a valve 9', so arranged that air may be forced
through by the bulb F, but the secretions of the uterus and vagina cannot be
drawn into the tube by the reverse action of the bulb. I place a larger tube B,
outside of the tube A with a space between the two, designed to be filled with an
absorbent, as cotton &c. to be saturated with a volatile medicinal solution to be
used in connection with the electric current; the vapour being carried to the parts
with air forced through the inner tube with the elastic bulb F, having an ingress
valve, for the inflow of air.
The upper ends of the tubes are held to place and supported by an annular zinc
bead G, which fits closely around the inner tube and inside of the outer tube, with
the end of the soft rubber jacket C between.
The jacket C, is then folded back over the outer tube to form a soft bulbous
fold C, at the end of the instrument; and a soft jacket over the outer tube to
protect the walls of the vagina when inserting the instrument; the outer end of the
jacket being held firmly to place by a silver flange, which is made to fit closely
around the outer tube and jacket.
The silver flange E, is connected to the zinc head G, by thin copper, or other
metallic ribbons, as D, so that a perfect electric connection is made between the
two as soon as the instrument is inserted and the secretions of the parts have acted
upon the metal to induce a current of electricity.
In using my instrument as a battery, it is inserted into the vagina until the zinc
head G, very nearly touches the mouth of the uterus, when the secretions of the
parts coming in contact with the zinc and copper produce an electric current of
sufficient power to act beneficially upon the parts, but not of sufficient power to

page_text: inconvenience the patient. By this manner of applying the electric current I find
that I can greatly assist the medicinal effects of the solution contained in
the tubes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The combination, in a uterine battery, of an inner perforated tube, a solid outer
tube, a zinc head at one end of said tubes and a silver flange at the other end, and
a copper ribbon connecting the two, substantially as shown and described.
2. The combination, in a uterine battery, of a perforated inner tube, a solid outer
tube, an absorbent material between the tubes, said absorbent saturated with a
volatile medicinal compound, a stopper and valve at one end, a soft rubber jacket
over the outer tube, a zine head in one end and a silver flange on the other end, a
copper ribbon connecting the two, substantially as shown and described.
3. In a uterine battery, a perforated inner tube, a solid outer tube, an absorbent
substance containing a volatile medicinal compound between the tubes, a zinc bead
at one end, a metallic flange at the other end, a soft rubber jacket encasing the
outer tube, a copper ribbon encircling the jacket and connecting the zinc head and
metallic flange, and a soft fold at the end of the jacket, substantially as set forth.
4. In a uterine battery, a perforated inner tube, an outer tube, an absorbent and
a volatile medicinal compound between said tubes, a zine head, a silver flange and
a copper ribbon connecting them; with a bulbous elastic air injector attached to the
end of the tubes, substantially as and for the purpose. set forth.
Dated this Second day of November 1894.
CHARLES EVERETT HEBARD.
Boult & Wade,
Agents for the Applicant.