Head for Curative and other Purposes.
Year: 1886

page_text: Head for Curative and other Purposes.
I, GEORGE LICHTENFELD, of 93, Great Portland Street, and 79, Regent Street,
both in the County of Middlesex, Court Hairdresser and Wig Maker, do hereby
declare the nature of my said 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 an improved method of applying electricity to the
scalp or head or any part thereof as desired, for curative treatment of neuralgia,
headache, or for various other curative purposes, for stimulating the growth of the
hair, or for preventing premature baldness or the premature deterioration of the
hair.
The Invention consists, essentially, in adapting to wigs, part wigs, head-dresses
generally, caps, hats, bonnets, and other descriptions of head-gear or coverings for
the hair and head, (hereinafter intended to be comprehended where the words
"head-gear" alone occur), of any suitable constant battery by means of which a
continual or constant current of electricity can be obtained and applied to the
scalp or head or any part thereof as desired.
In carrying the Invention into effect, I prefer to use and apply a small chloride
of silver battery, but I can equally as well use and apply any other suitable form
of constant battery, preferring to apply it to the head-gear in such a manner as
that its application will not be externally apparent, and as that it will not afford
any discomfort to the wearer of the head-gear.
I prefer to use a battery consisting of zinc and silver plates or electrodes between
which is placed chloride of silver and a suitable porous material to prevent the zinc
plate from having direct contact with the chloride of silver, and I encase the whole
in a flexible casing of india rubber or other suitable substance, making the battery
of a shape or contour conforming to that of the part of the head-gear to which it is
intended to be applied.
Flexible insulated metal wires or conducting cords are attached to the electrodes
of the battery, the free ends thereof being provided with thin or flexible plates or
terminals of gold silver or other suitable conducting metal, so that by shifting and
adapting such conducting plates to such positions as desired, the current of electricity
generated in the battery may be applied to any required part of the head as desired,

page_text: the current in the external circuit of the battery passing from the silver electrode
along the flexible conducting cord connected thereto to its said terminal, over the
surface of the scalp or head, to the said terminal of the other flexible conducting
cord thence to the zinc electrode, and in the internal circuit of the battery, thence
to the silver electrode, and by such or equivalent means the current of electricity
can be continuously applied for as long as may be desired.
The battery may be permanently adapted to the head-gear, or may be so applied
thereto as to permit of its being temporarily removed and replaced as or when
desired.
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 :-
The herein before described improved method of applying electricity to the scalp
or head or any part thereof as desired, for the purposes mentioned or for analogous
purposes, the same consisting essentially ;--
In adapting to or combining with wigs, part wigs, head-dresses generally, caps,
hats, bonnets, and other descriptions of head-gear or coverings for the hair and
head; any suitable constant battery by means of which a constant current of
electricity can be obtained and applied to the scalp or head or any part thereof as
desired, substantially as herein before described.
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