Improvements in Electric Appliances for Medical and other purposes.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 15th July, 1897-Accepted, 15th Aug., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Electric Appliances for Medical and other
purposes.
I, HERCULES SANCHE, of 261, Fifth Avenue, New York, in the County and
State of New York, 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:-
Bearing in mind the well-known fact that a brass ball in a warm room,
connected to moist earth by a moderate electrical conductor, becomes charged
with negative electricity; when the circuit wire of a battery is severed, each
end of said wire becomes electrified oppositely to the other; when dissimilar
metals, as copper and zinc are joined together, they spontaneously become charged
with opposite elements of electricity;-a thermo-electric current is generated
between bodies at a different temperature, when they are connected together;
a powerful galvanic battery may be formed by connecting together two tanks
of gas, one of oxygen and another of hydrogen, by electrical conductors; the
positive plate of a polarized galvanic battery becomes coated with bubbles of,
and in time completely permeated with oxygen, the most negative substance in
nature, while the negative plates of said battery become coated and permeated
in the same way, with hydrogen, the most positive gas known:-an induction
coil through the air, to create a reverse current and polarity in a secondary
coil at a distance; which is again reversed in a tertiary coil; by almost continual
experiments of many years' duration I gradually discovered the furthermore
important facts, viz.-
First. That if a human being or an animal is placed in the same relation
with moist earth by a similar connection as the ball mentioned above, the
result is rapid oxygenation of the capillary blood, and next to the tissues and
the fluid of the living organism thus connected.
Second. If the ball or a living organism is likewise connected with cold water,
snow, ice, or any source of lower temperature the result of the connection is the
same as if made with moist earth and upon a living organism. It is propor-
tionate to the difference between its own temperature, and the temperature
connected with it.
Third. If said organism is connected in the same way with the negative
pole of a battery, a strong relative electro-negative gas or chemical, the result
is the same in proportion to the difference between the electrical states at the
ends of this circuitless connection.
Fourth. If said organism is connected in like manner, with the solar rays,
the positive plate of the galvanic battery, a strong relative electro-positive gas,
or chemical, or any source of higher temperature, the above effects are reversed,
that is the capillary blood and tissues become rapidly hydrogenated, instead of
being oxygenated, in proportion to the difference in the electrical state or tem-
perature at the ends of this circuitless connection by a moderate electrical
conductor or inductor.

page_text: Fifth. The inductive force of the above described arrangement into a galvanic
pair, of a living organism with any source of different temperature or electrical
attraction and repulsion created by a moderate electrical connection of the two
without circuit, as acting on the living organism largely depends on the area
in surface of the substance connected with which it is involved in galvanic
play upon said organism, as well as upon its difference in temperature or electrical
condition.
Sixth. A living organism, when connected as above described, with anything
decidedly in a different thermal or electrical condition, if the quantity and
surface of the substance connected with it is sufficient invariably assumes the
opposite polarity of the substance thus connected with it and consequently
unerringly acquires corresponding opposite attraction and repulsion of gases, of
a force governed by the laws of proportion above stated, proving that the con-
nection described virtually converts the two into a galvanic pair with mutual
reciprocating functions.
Seventh. None of the above effects can be produced if a capacious conductor
is employed, because a low degree of conductivity or induction corresponding to
that of the fluid acting as a conductor between the plates of a polarized galvanic
battery, and the absence of a circuit connection are indispensable requisites to
the creation of the inductive force and opposite polarity above described.
Eighth. By right manipulation of the above forces, a living organism is
caused to absorb any gaseous substances existing and diffused in the air around
it, and to repel gases of opposite electrical quality, whereby the greatest physio-
logical changes are rapidly produced.
Ninth. Skilful use of the above named forces constitutes far more potent
means for invigorating a living organism, and controlling disease, either by
prevention or cure in man, animals, or plants, than ever before known, amounting
to mastery in all ordinary cases.
It is unnecessary for me to explain the theory of my invention or its relation
to the dynamic aspects of existence further than by the single statement that I
make no use of any processes save those which are based upon known laws and
accepted scientific postulates, dealing with the known conversions, or transfor-
mations of energy. These phenomena are as well known as the correlation of
energy in the voltaic cell, in which one pole assumes positive or negative potential
upon contact with another substance; or, as the various phenomena of induction.
I have discovered by my researches that a vast variety of physical, physiological
and chemical results may be accomplished by every substance which is saturated
by a potential energy, and that inductive effects may be produced thereby in
bodies of matter, at very considerable distances apart. I employ, for this pur-
pose, what I term a conductor, or connector, without circuit by which is to be
understood a positive, tangible connection, between the dynamic field, or substance
having a static degree of potential energy, and the body, or mass of matter
which receives, or parts with an energy which is the correlate of the potential
saturating the dynamic field; said body or mass, being without connection to
earth, or other return circuit.
For the practical application of my discovery by which means either oxygen
or hydrogen may be inducted into the human body I have invented certain forms
of apparatus which are described hereunder in detail,-reference being had to
the accompanying drawings in which,-
Figure 1 is an elevation showing one form of the apparatus as it is arranged a
when in use.
Figure 2 is a central, vertical section of the same.
Figure 3 is a detail view showing the local contact plate.
Figure 4 is a further view of the same, illustrating the manner in which
connection is established with the plate.
Figure 5 is a view showing the clip which may be substituted for the apparatus
shown in Fig. 1.

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connections.
Figure 8 is a view of another form of my invention showing the metallic
casing enclosing the apparatus.
Figure 9. is a detail perspective of the metallic cylinder shown in Figure 8
as encased.
Figure 10 is a detail section of the cylinder.
Figure 11 illustrates portions of two straps with buckles and connecting cable
forming a coupling for two persons.
Figure 12 is an elevation of the conducting disc employed in conjunction with
the straps.
Figure 13 is a diagram showing the application of my invention to physio-
logical purposes.
Figure 14 is a diagram showing the application of my invention to physical
purposes, that is to say, in which the objective comprises an inorganic element.
Figure 15 is a view showing another method of establishing potential or induc-
tive force in an objective which comprises inorganic matter.
Figure 16 is a view showing a modified form of apparatus.
Figure 17 is a view showing an organized apparatus adapted for physiological
and sanitary uses in a dwelling or other building.
Figure 18 is a detail view, to more fully illustrate the parts shown in Fig. 17,
and Fig. 19 is a view showing one method of applying the invention to physio-
logical use.
Figure 20 is an elevation partly in longitudinal section, of another form of
my invention.
Figure 21 is a perspective view upon a reduced scale showing one method of
using the device illustrated in Fig. 20.
Figure 22 is a detail section of one of the terminals, showing one manner in
which the porous or absorbent filament is arranged to communicate with the
bibulous or absorbent material packed in said terminals.
In the said drawings the reference numeral 1 denotes a tip having a female
screw adapted to engage a gas burner, after the usual burner tip has been
removed. Upon this tip is mounted a yoke frame 2, extending upward for some
distance and having its ends passing through the extremities 3, of a cylindrical,
metallic casing 4 entirely closed, but packed in its interior with small copper,
or other metallic bars, such for example as copper wire cut up into proper
lengths, so that their ends shall rest against the ends of the cylindrical casing.
The latter is secured to the yoke frame by binding screws 5.
Upon the parallel arms of the yoke frame is mounted, also, a cylindrical
casing or shell 6, having upon its upper side a long narrow slot 7, and com-
municating with this cylinder is a central tube 8. which slides within a tube 9.
rising from the gas tip 1. In this tube a little above the tip I form a series of
air openings 10, and mount upon the tube over said openings, a ring 12 having
a like series of such openings 13, whereby a considerable quantity of air may
be admitted to the tube; this volume being adjustable by simply turning the
ring which rests for its support upon a collar 14. It will be seen that by this
device, the burner may be converted into a burner of the Bunsen type: or if
for any reason, it is desired, the air may be wholly cut off and gas employed, only.
By the construction shown and described, also, the cylinder 6, which lies
beneath the cylindrical casing 4, and is provided with nipples 15, through which
the arms of the yoke pass, whereby it may be raised and lowered relatively to.
the cylinder 4 and the heat thereby increased or diminished as it is exerted
upon the cylinder or pile 4. All the metallic parts above the tip are insulated
from the earth by means of the material of which said tip is made. this being
any good insulating substance; such for example as hard rubber. To prevent
the overheating of the rubber tip, I provide a small cup which may be integral

page_text: with or fitted upon the tip and which may contain water to keep the rubber
cool. This cup is shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1.
Connected electrically to one end of the cylinder 4 is a closely coiled spring 16,
of such length as to prevent any great excess of heat from being transmitted
to an induction cable 17, which consists of a diamagnetic core, such as tinsel
wire, firmly covered by a braided covering of silk or wool, the material shown
in the present instance being worsted. This wire is of any required length,
and at its end it is electrically connected with a conducting disc, or contact-
plate 18, bent into concave form in one direction. Upon the back of this disc
is a seat 19 to receive the end of the wire from which the insulating covering
has been removed. A plate 20 is then laid over the seat and upon the wire,
and fastened down by screws 21, which firmly fasten the cable and give an
excellent electrical contact.
To one end of this plate 20 is connected by a closed hook, one end of a silk
strip 22, which is provided at its other end with a similar but open hook 23,
engaging a slot 24, in the other end of the plate 20. This hook may be adjusted
along upon the strap in the manner of a garter clasp, to enable the strap to be
applied to different parts of the body.
The manner of using the apparatus is as follows:-The insulating tip 1 being
placed upon the gas hxture in the manner described the air admission is adjusted
and the gas, or gas and air mingled are ignited at the slot in the casing, or
cylinder 6. The degree of heat being properly regulated it is continued until
the temperature of the cylinder 4, is about 100 degrees, more or less, above
the temperature of the patient, after which the outlet is regulated to preserve
it at or about said point. The silk strap is then affixed, and if the case be one
of local injury, inflammation or disease, a wet sponge is laid upon the point
affected and the plate or disc is placed over the sponge. The temperature of
the pile or cylinder 4 being much higher than that of the body, the latter assumes
a negative, and the former a positive polarity.
I may substitute for the heating devices shown in Fig. 1, the clip shown in
Figs. 5 and 6. The latter may be attached to any part of a stove or range, or
to any other source of heat, by means of the threaded rod 25, tapped through the
loop 26, at the end of the arm or bow 27. When this substitute device is em-
ployed, I introduce the cable 17 through the head of the binding screw 28,
by way of a concentric opening 29, which opens at one side of the screw, and the
tinsel wires are laid in a seat 30, formed in a head, or terminal 31, upon the
threaded rod 25 which engages with a slightly raised boss 32 on the binding
screw which presses the terminals of the wires closely down upon the seat 30,
and holds them fast therein. I may however, introduce a wire through the point
of the binding screw instead of the head, as shown in Fig. 7, and tap the point
into a substantially similar cap, the wires being passed through an opening 33
in a threaded stem, and coiled, or spread upon the flat abutting face of the
end piece, said cable passing through the threaded opening in the engaging piece
which receives the centrally drilled point of the binding screw through which
the wires are passed.
The spring intermediate between the end of the cylinder or pile 4, is connected
with and disconnected from the end of the cable by a duplex connection of the
kind last described save that the wire and cable are introduced through
the heads of the binding screws. By simply reversing the position, however, of the
screws or caps, I may cause both to enter the points of the screws, with equal
facility.
In the second form of apparatus employed in my invention, shown in Figs. 8, 9
and 10 the letter A denotes a metallic cylindrical shell, filled with a suitable
electro-negative material, such as fused sulphur. Electrically connected with
one end of this shell is a cable B, consisting of a conducting wire having an
insulated covering of any preferred kind. This cable, which is of any required
length, is in electrical contact at its outer end with a local application plate,

page_text: consisting of a metallic conducting disc C concaved slightly in one direction
in order to enable it to seat upon the limbs. It is secured in place by means of
a strap D, looped through the central bar of a buckle E which is connected by
one of its side-bars F, with a closed hook G on the disc. At the outer end of
the strap is a similar buckle H adjustable thereon, and adapted to be secured
by its side-bar to an open hook I on the other side of the disc. The strap is
preferably formed of elastic material.
For the purpose of enabling another person sleeping in the same bed with
or remaining in proximity to the person being operated upon by the apparatus,
I provide a coupling (Fig. 11) consisting of two straps D with buckles E and
conducting discs C. These straps should be secured one on each person preferably
round the wrist or ankle and the connection made by means of the cable B
containing the conducting wire. The letter K denotes a clasp, large enough
to admit the shell A, and provided with substantially parallel lugs L and M
through one of which passes a set screw N, which is tapped through the other,
whereby the clasp may be clamped tightly upon the shell A. The lug M is
extended and bent over to form an eye 0, to which is attached one end of a
chain P or other flexible connection, having at its other end a weight Q.
The manner of using this form of apparatus is as follows:-
The strap D being buckled about a limb, as for example the naked ankle in
such manner that the plate C shall have proper contact, the shell A is placed
where it is exposed to a low temperature. If the room occupied by the patient
is cold it may be laid upon the floor, but if otherwise it may be either placed
outside the window, where it will suspend by the counter-balancing weight Q
hanging upon the inside, or if preferred it may be placed in ice water, or upon
a solid piece of ice.
The action thereby produced is allowed to continue until the desired result
is accomplished.
This form of my invention provides a cheap and simple apparatus which is
perfectly safe to be handled and used by a child. It is of such size also, as to
be carried in the pocket and may be sold at a price which will bring it within
the reach of everyone.
The connector, which I employ for the purposes of my invention consists of
a filament of metal, magnetic or dia-magnetic. A strip, or filament, of non-
metallic material may however be substituted for the metallic filament, and in
some cases such a substitution is desirable in order to carry out the purposes
in view. Generally, however, a connecting filament of either conductive or non-
conductive character electrically considered may be used between the dynamic
field and the receptor. For example, a filament of copper, or iron wire, a cord,
or a filament strip or rod, of wood, rubber, glass, or other non-conducting material
or a combination of conducting and non-conducting materials or alternation of
the same, may be used, indifferently. This filament is attached at one end, or
brought into actual contact or into inductive proximity to the dynamic field f,
which, for the purpose of illustration, I have shown in Fig. 13 as consisting of a
conductor of electricity such as an electric light wire, the connector here being
represented by the letter g. The connection may be made in any preferred
manner, though for convenience I use the lateral attachment h, which consists of
a screw-clamp having at the extremity of its shank a permanent terminal i, of
ordinary construction. This attachment may be made directly upon the denuded
wire, or upon the insulating covering.
At its other end the connector g is attached to the structure j, which is the
direct recipient of energy and which I have termed the receptor. Strictly
speaking, however, this term is of limited definition, since the translation or
correlation of energy is not always, and necessarily, in one and the same direction,
as the objective ; may, in some cases receive, and in other instances be drained,
or deprived, of energy in some one or more forms. It is more correct, therefore,
to term the object in which the potential correlate is established, the objective,

page_text: said term indicating the terminal of the connector in which the correlation of
energy is established by virtue of the process constituting my invention.
Regarding the dynamic field as saturated with a potential which is electro-
positive, the objective will when connected therewith in the manner described,
be converted by a process of statical induction into the dynamic opposite, or
electro-negative. For example, if the dynamic field be represented by a cell f¹,
Fig. 14, containing the electro-positive element k and if this element be connected
with a separate electro-negative element 1, in a distant cell, by means of a
connector m without circuit, the conditions of the process will be satisfied. In
like manner, (Fig. 15), the two poles n of a galvanic cell may be connected in
any usual manner to establish the circuit as by connector n and from the
circuit connection a connector o, without circuit, may be carried to a metallic
plate p, or to a coil g. This is substantially the same arrangement shown in
Fig. 13. In both, the connector serves merely as a means for the direction of
the force flowing over the circuit-connection. If this factor be electro-positive
the electro-negative state will be induced in the objective p, or q. This condition
will not be established instantaneously, as is the case with the ordinary processes
of induction in which a body of matter like soft iron is thrown into a magnetic
state by a current traversing a surrounding coil. On the contrary, it is estab-
lished gradually, by a steady accumulation of energy passing over the circuitless
connector o. In the pathological application of the processes, the circuitless
connector g, in Fig. 13, is usually attached to a terminal r, of suitable metal,
such as copper, iron, silver, nickel &c. In one form this terminal may consist
of a group of looped filaments s, or fine wires bent to approximate loops of the
peripheral nerves.
The power, influence or force which exists in a transitory shape in the con-
nectors m and n¹ respectively (see Figs. 14 and 15) that is to say, the electric
current which traverses said connectors, is intended to be utilized as one form
of potential or static matter, and it is my object to attach my connector or
conductor to said connector m or n¹ in the same manner in which I attach said
connector or conductor to other forms of static matter, as herein described.
Thermo-electric energy may be employed in practising my invention, by sub-
mitting the dynamic field to a temperature higher, or lower, than that of the
objective. In this case the matter, or body, of relatively higher temperature
will be regarded as electro-positive, in relation to the colder, electro-negative
body, or substance.
The two bodies, or masses of matter, in which the resulting correlation of
energy is established, or in which a relatively electro-positive and electro-negative
potential is established, will each exert a certain power of attraction and repul-
sion, respectively, upon all gases of electro-negative and electro-positive character,
as well as upon fluids holding in solution substances which are of electro-negative
and electro-positive potential.
In most instances, in practising my invention, it is desirable that the objective,
when composed of matter adapted to accumulate a potential energy which shall
act directly upon other matter, either solid, fluid, or gaseous, shall be provided
with an extensive surface area. This may be obtained by the use of a plate,
either one or a series, by manifold loops of filaments, or by the infinite convolu-
tions seen in various similar articles, such as tassels, and other articles of
furniture, dress, or ornament. It should also be remembered that the potential
resulting, or accumulating in any objective, may be correlated and diminished
by the interposition of what may be termed an antecedent objective: Thus, in
the lateral connection seen in Fig. 13, if the clamp h is applied directly upon
the insulating covering of the conductor f, said covering then becomes antecedent
to the objective. If the conductor, or field of energy f, is of positive potential
the insulating covering will transform the energy into the potential, which will
be established in the insulation as the dynamic opposite of the potential of the
field. Thus, if the latter is electro-positive the final objective, which is the

page_text: recipient will accumulate a dynamic electro-positive, whereas, had the connector
been applied directly to the denuded conductor f, the objective would have
accumulated a dynamic electro-negative.
It should be noted, also, that if the conductor be of diamagnetic material, it
will, itself, transform the potential of the dynamic field, thus establishing in the
objective a potential similar to that in the dynamic field.
In Fig. 16 of the drawings I have shown one form of apparatus for the
utilization of thermo-electric energy. It consists of a ball t, usually of diamag-
netic material and of any suitable size, communicating by a connector of any
suitable material with a terminal or objective s which may be similar to the
terminal shown in Fig. 13. The ball which may be of spherical or other
form, is subjected to heating or cooling influences, relatively to the objective s.
The means I have shown in the drawing for the establishment of a dynamic
potential in the primary electrode, may be greatly varied, even to the extent
of substituting two living organisms for the primary electrode and objective.
For example two persons, or two trees, or two plants, or vegetables, would fairly
illustrate my meaning, and this substitution may proceed through all, living,
or sentient, organizations.
My invention also comprises the utilization of thermo-electric and electric-
static energy, as well as the several dynamic processes resting upon the laws
of what I have termed static induction. In all these processes comprised by
my invention I make use of a connector which is without circuit, or circuitless,
meaning thereby that no conductor is provided to form a closed circuit, like
that existing in a voltaic cell, when the poles are connected by a conductor. It
should be noted that I may use a plurality of connectors between two of the
dynamic terminals I employ, without any variation in my invention, the differ-
ence in dynamic result produced by multiplying the number of connectors being
one of degree, only.
In the ordinary application of the process to physiological and sanitary uses,
I provide the apparatus shown in Fig. 17 in which the numeral 34 denotes any
ordinary bracket-frame, or support, of convenient form. Upon this frame are
mounted a plurality of contacts 35, having suitable conductivity, and so arranged
that they may each be reached by a suitable arm 36, which is usually pivoted,
but may, if preferred, be made to slide, or be wholly detachable. Each of the
contacts 35 has attachment to a connector 35, and the several connectors are
led to different points, one being taken to an electrode 37, which may consist of
a plate of suitable dimensions, exposed to the sun upon a roof, or in any other
suitable position. A separate connector may be led from a second contact to
an electrode 38, consisting of a coil exposed in any suitable manner to heat
produced by combustion in a stove, furnace or fire-place, in the house, or building,
or at any convenient point. This form of electrode is to be substituted for that
exposed to the sun when the latter is not used; as, for example, when the sky
is overcast.
A third contact is connected in like manner with an electrode 39, which may
consist of a metallic shell, or cylinder 39, closed at the ends, and containing
sulphur, or black lead and sulphur, or the latter in conjunction with sulphide of
carbon. I may, however, substitute other metals, or salts of the metals, separately
or conjointly, in place of those named.
The shell 39 is provided with a terminal 40 for the ready attachment of the
connector 35, and the electrode is either exposed to the cool, or cold, atmosphere,
or buried in the earth, or exposed to artificial refrigeration in any suitable
manner. It will be understood that I may use the form of electrode shown
in Fig. 17, if preferred, and subject it to the proper cooling or refrigerating
influences. Or any form of manifold plate, or wire, coiled, or bent upon itself,
may be employed.
From each contact 35 a connector may be carried to a terminal plate 41,
either upon the floor, wall, or in any other position, as for example upon foot

page_text: brackets, where it may form a movable screen. Again such connector may be
attached to articles of ornament, such as tinsel cords or tassels, which may be
made to afford large surface-area. Connectors 35" may also be carried to the
sleeping rooms and connected to suitable terminals 42, adapted for attachment
to the wrist or ankle of a patient. By shifting the switch 36, (see Fig. 18),
any one, or more of those various terminals, as 41, 42, may be connected with
any one of the several electrodes 37, 38, 39, (Fig. 17), thereby establishing,
by a process of static induction, a condition in any one of the terminals, as 41,
42, which is the potential opposite, or dynamic correlate, of the potential estab-
lished in the other electrode.
If desired, a terminal floor-plate, as 41, may be connected directly to one or
more electrodes 43, placed on the earth, (see Fig. 19).
As one means of applying the process to physiological uses, I may attach
one or more plates, or other terminals 44, to the sole, or counter, of a boot,
or shoe, a connector 45 being extended through the heel, or sole, so that its
point will be able to contact with one of the floor electrodes 41, for example.
In Figs. 20, 21 and 22 will be seen another form of my invention, which is
described as follows:-
In said figures the reference numeral 46 denotes a filament which may consist
of a cord of cotton, or other fiber, capable of absorbing and retaining a body
of fluid. Ordinary candle wicking, or cotton cord of proper diameter, will
answer all the purposes in view, but I may substitute any suitable material
possessing suitable porosity and which is capable of rendering the fluid taken
up by its capillary cells practically homogeneous throughout the length of the
filament.
At one end of the absorbent cord 46 is attached a pad or piece of felt or other
suitable absorbent material 47, the same being united with the absorbent cord 46
in the following manner:-
I provide a plate or disc 48 and another plate or disc 49, and place one at
each side of the pad 47, the plate 48 having slots 50 and 51, 51; and I provide
the plate 49 with lugs 52, 52, which are adapted to pass through the slots 51, 51,
and to be clinched by their ends being turned downwardly into the slot 50,
thereby binding the said pad 47, and plates 48 and 49 together. The plate 48 is
furnished with an arched receiving and binding channel 53, 53" for the end
of the absorbent cord 46, the portion 53 having the mouth or entrance 54 at
one end, and at its other end the uneven edge 55 which is adapted to be turned
down upon the cord 46 to more firmly secure it. Similarly the entrance end
of portion 53" has a projecting edge 56 which is also turned down upon the
cord 46. The opposite end of portion 53 is closed as seen. Prior to binding
together the parts above enumerated, a tape or band 57 is placed between the
plate 48 and pad 47, at right angles to the cord 46, and this tape or band is
firmly secured with and to the other parts when the lugs 52, 52 and projecting
edges 55, 56 are clinched.
The tape or band 57 is of sufficient length to be tied around a limb or the
body of the person being treated, so as to bring the pad 47 into contact therewith
and to hold it in any desired position.
The other extremity of the absorbent cord 46 is secured to a terminal or
weight, as 58, and is retained therein in any suitable manner, as, for example,
by tying a knot 59 therein of a size to prevent the end being withdrawn there-
from.
When the apparatus is to be applied the entire length of the absorbent cord 46,
as well as the pad 47, is first saturated with alcohol or other quickly penetrating
fluid, and then wrung out and charged with water, or other suitable fluid,
whereby a liquid column will be formed, practically, and will be co-extensive
with the filament and its terminals.
In use, the terminal 58 is exposed to a temperature higher, or lower, than
the temperature of the organism, or body, to which the terminal or pad 47 is

page_text: attached. A convenient method of accomplishing this is to deposit the weight 58
in a vessel of water, which may be cooled by ice, by exposure to an outside
temperature in winter, or by any other means.
In like manner the water in the vessel may be heated in any manner, should
a high temperature be required, as compared with the temperature of the body
to which the terminal 47 is attached. In both cases, the water, or fluid, in said
vessel serves to maintain the, substantial integrity of the fluid column in the
filament and its terminals, the capillarity of these parts being sufficient to replace
the loss by evaporation and by absorption from the filling, or terminal 47.
I have ascertained by experiment that when the apparatus is used in the
manner first mentioned, that is to say, when the terminal 58 is subjected to a low
temperature, the body to which it is applied is rendered capable of absorbing
atmospheric oxygen, and of repelling and expelling hydrogen and other gases
of the group to which hydrogen belongs.
The effects may be modified largely by varying the degree of temperature
employed, and opposite effects or substantially such, may be obtained by the
substitution of a high temperature. By the employment of low temperature a
stimulating and invigorating effect may be produced, and depressing result will
follow the use of high temperatures.
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:-
1. Placing a living organism in the attitude of a galvanic arrangement and
in electrical relation to one of the plates of a galvanic pair together with any
source of the lower or higher temperature or with any substance in an electrical
state corresponding to the same by being its electro-negative or electro-positive
through an electrical connection of the two without circuit by a moderate elec-
trical conductor or inductor for the purpose of invigorating living organism or
of preventing or curing disease in the same as described and set forth.
2. An electrical conductor of any length employed without forming a circuit
with an enlarged electrical contact surface at each end one terminal suited in
material and formed to amply contact with the organism under treatment and
the other terminal adapted in material form and extent to a sufficient contact
with any source of cold, heat or electrical condition, or with any gas, fluid,
or chemical or other substance, which is electro-negative or electro-positive to
the organism under treatment, substantially as described and for the purpose
set forth.
3. In an apparatus for the treatment of diseases, the combination of a cylin-
drical shell, containing a series of metal rods or plates packed therein, of a
heating device, means of applying heat thereto, a cable connected therewith
and having electrical conductivity, and a contact plate electrically connected to
the cable and provided with means whereby it may be applied to any part of
the human body, substantially as described.
4. In an apparatus for the treatment of disease the combination with a cylin-
drical shell packed with metallic rods, or plates, of a heating device consisting
of a cylinder having a narrow slot, said cylinder being adjustable on a yoke frame
which supports the cylindrical shell, a tube communicating with the adjustable
shell and having an insulating tip adapted to screw upon the gas-burner, said
tube having air openings and a collar provided with similar openings and adjust-
able circumferentially, whereby the air inlet may be wholly or partly closed or
opened, substantially as described.
5. In an apparatus for the treatment of diseases, the combination with a
cylindrical shell packed with metallic rods, or plates, of means substantially as
described, for imparting heat to said shell, an insulating conducting cable con-
nected to one end of said tube by an intermediate coil of conducting wire,
separable from the cable, by means of duplex binding screws and caps, the end

page_text: of the cable being inserted through the points of the screws and its stripped
terminals led out beside the screw, and laid between the cap and the head of
the screw and a contact plate having a head upon its back and a seat therein to
receive the terminal of the cable which is fastened by a plate screwed down
upon the head and binding the stripped wire terminals, substantially as described.
6. In an apparatus of the character specified, a conducting cable connected
at its separable points, by a binding screw, having an axial opening through
which the stripped wire of the cable is inserted by way of the point of the screw,
and brought out beneath the head of the screw, and a cap loose upon the cable
and having a female thread which receives the hollow screw and compresses
the terminals against the head of the binding screw, substantially as described.
7. In an apparatus for the treatment of diseases, the combination with a
metallic shell filled with a substance, which is electro-positive relatively to the
body under treatment, of a cable electrically connected to one end of said shell
and to a local application plate, consisting of a metallic disc slightly concaved
in one direction, and a strap by which said disc is secured to the ankle, or other
part of the body, substantially as described.
8. In an apparatus for the treatment of disease, the combination with a
metallic shell, containing a substance which is electro-negative relative to the
body under treatment, said shell being electrically connected with the patient,
of a clasp enclosing said shell and clamped thereon by means of a set screw
engaging lugs on said clasp of unequal length, the longer one being bent to form
an eye, and a chain and weight attached to said eye, substantially as described.
9. In an apparatus for the treatment of diseases the combination with a metallic
cylindrical shell packed with an electro-negative material, such as fused sulphur,
&c., of a cable electrically connected to both the shell and to a metallic disc,
slightly concaved in one direction, and an elastic strap having a buckle the side
bar of which lies in a closed hook on one side of the disc and provided with a
similar buckle, the side bar of which engages an open hook on the other side of
the disc, substantially as described.
10. In combination with an apparatus for the treatment of diseases the coupling
substantially as described for connecting two persons sleeping in one bed when
one only is being operated upon.
11. The process hereinbefore set forth for the establishment in a distant ob-
jective terminal of a dynamic potential of positive or negative character, said
process consisting in subjecting the objective terminal to the gradual action
of a dynamic field, or electrode, of proper potential, by means of one or more
connectors without circuit, substantially as described.
12. The process set forth for establishing in a distant objective terminal a
dynamic potential of positive or negative character, said process consisting in
acting gradually upon the objective by a dynamic field of energy, or an electrode,
connected by one or more filaments, or connectors, with the objective, and
isolating the latter to open the dynamic circuit, substantially as described.
13. The process set forth the same consisting in connecting together two
bodies, or masses, of matter, by means of one or more filaments, or connectors,
one of said bodies being a dynamic field, or electrode, isolating the other body,
which constitutes the objective terminal, in such a manner as to open the dynamic
circuit, and gradually establishing in said terminal a potential of the required
character, substantially as described.
14. The process hereinbefore set forth, the same consisting in connecting two
bodies of different potential energy, by one or more connectors without circuit,
and transforming the type of potential in one body by the gradual action of the
body of more intense potential, substantially as described.
15. An apparatus for the utilization of thermo-electric and electro-static
energy, consisting of an objective terminal of suitable surface area, a dynamic
field, or electrode consisting of a body capable of receiving and responding to

page_text: thermal influences, and one or more connecting filaments by which dynamic
intercommunication may be carried on, substantially as described.
16. The combination of a plate for a thermo-electric or electro-static battery
composed of a sheet of some relatively thermo-electro-positive substance a
relatively thermo-electro-negative substance in the form of a connector and again
a thermo-electro-positive substance connected to the first by the connector, sub-
stantially as set forth.
17. The combination of a plate electrode for a thermo-electric battery, a
terminal mounted on a support where it is adapted to become in contact with
the person, and one or more connectors without circuit, connected at one end to
one of said parts and having their other ends exposed to contact with the other
of said parts, substantially as described.
18. The combination with a series of electrodes exposed individually to heating
or cooling influences, of a switch-arm, connectors without circuit by which in-
ductive communication may be had between said electrodes and the switch-arm,
a series of contacts connected to said connectors, and a series of terminals, each
connected to one of said connectors, substantially as described.
19. The means of producing physiological, chemical, and physical changes
and effects, in living organisms, in the atmosphere, in chemical compounds and
inanimate matter in any form, substantially as and for the purposes herein before
set forth described and illustrated.
20. A therapeutic apparatus consisting of a connecting filament of porous, or
bibulous material, a weight at one end thereof and a pad of bibulous or absorbent
material, at its opposite end, the said weight and pad forming terminals to the
filament, substantially as described.
21. A therapeutic apparatus consisting of a connecting filament of porous or
bibulous material, a weight at one end thereof, and a pad of absorbent or bibulous
material at its other end, the said weight and pad forming terminals to the
filament, together with means for attaching one terminal to the body under
treatment, substantially as described.
22. A therapeutic apparatus consisting of a filament of bibulous material, a
weighted terminal at one end and an absorbent or bibulous pad forming a
terminal at the other end, a pair of plates between which the pad and filament
end are placed and secured together and a tape or band applied to the absorbent
pad to enable it to be attached to the body under treatment, substantially as
described.
23. The combination with absorbent terminals of a fluid column forming a
connection between said terminals substantially as described.
24. The combination with suitable contact terminals of a bibulous or absorbent
filament connecting said contact terminals and capable of being charged with
moisture, or fluid, substantially as described.
25. The combination with two contact terminals of a bibulous, or absorbent
filament connecting the same and capable of being charged with a body of fluid
and means for attaching one of said terminals to a body under treatment, sul-
stantially as described.
26. The instrument for the cure of disease comprising a contact plate or member
adapted to be attached to the body to be treated, a second plate or member
adapted to be placed in or under the influence of a temperature higher or lower
than the body to which the other plate is attached, or under the influence of
matter which is electro-positive or electro-negative to the body having said other
plate or member attached to it, and a flexible conducting or transmitting medium
connecting said two plates or members, said medium being of a relatively small
size to said plates or members and of a length sufficient to permit said two
plates or members to be placed at such distances apart that the body having one
plate or member attached thereto will be removed beyond the range of influence
transmitted by direct radiation, conduction, or contact from said other plate
or member, substantially as described.

page_text: 27. A flexible connector between human beings or living organisms and other
matter which is at a lower or higher temperature, or in a different electro-static
or magnetic state, for the purposes of treating disease or of invigoration, or
of in any way changing the conditions of said human beings or living organisms,
substantially as described.
28. A flexible metallic, or fibrous, dry or wet connector between living organ-
isms and other matter which is colder or wariner or in a different static condition
than said living organisms for the purposes of invigoration or the cure of disease,
substantially as described.