Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Nov., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 8th Aug., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 14th Sept.. 1888
1, ALICE OLIVIA MCCORD of Colfax, Whitman County, Washington Territory,
United States of America, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention is a cervical cup and intra uterine stem attached, for the purpose of
applying medicine to the cervix uteri and holding it in place during treatment of
diseased condition of the womb.
The instrument consists of a conical cup of hard or soft rubber or any other
suitable material with a central stem on the concave surface, said stem to be cylindrical
in form but swelled at each extremity and perforated with a central cavity from the
face extremity to within one-fourth of an inch of its base where it terminates in a
cross slot, the perforated stem answering the double purpose of keeping the instrument
in place, and also for applying and equally distributing medicine to the endometrium
of the cervix. The stem may equal or exceed the height of the cup as may be found
necessary in treating different diseases of the cervix.
The advantages of the instrument are that any medicine may be applied to the neck
of the womb and the cervical endometrium at the same time, and the medicine held in
place during the entire day or night without inconvenience to the patient, while the
action of the vaginal wall upon the yielding surface of the cup tends to constantly
irrigate the inner surface of the neck of the womb through the vertical and transverse
cavities of the central stem, the medicine returning between the stem and cervical
wall.
Dated this 8th day of November 1887
A. O. MCCORD
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London,
Patent. Agents.

page_text: 1, ALICE OLIVIA MCCORD, of Colfax, Whitman County, Washington Territory,
United States of America, 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 :-
My Invention is a cervical cup and intra uterine stem attached for the purpose of
applying medicine to the cervix uteri and holding it in place during treatment of
diseased condition of the womb.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this
specification in which figure 1 is a side view of the stem of the pessary. Figure 2 is
a sectional view shewing the practical application of the pessary; and figure 3 is a
perspective view of the pessary.
The instrument consists of a cup (see figure 3) of hard or soft rubber or any other
suitable material with a central stem on the concave surface (which stem may equal
or exceed the height of the cup as occasion requires in treating different diseases of
the cervix) said stem to be cylindrical in form but swelled at each extremity and
perforated with a central cavity from the face extremity to within one-fourth of an
inch of its base where it terminates in a cross-slot (see figure 2) the perforated stem
answering the double purpose of keeping the instrument in place and also for
applying and equally distributing medicine to the endometrium of the cervix.
The advantages of the instrument are that any medicine may be applied to the neck
of the womb and the cervical endometrium at the same time, and the medicine held
in place during the entire day or night without inconvenience to the patient; while
the action of the vaginal wall upon the yielding surface of the cup tends to constantly
irrigato the inner surface of the neck of the womb through the vertical and transverse
cavities of the central stem (see figure 2) the medicine returning between the stem
and cervical wall.
I am aware that patents have been granted for rubber pessaries having a stem
provided with perforations to allow the secretions of the uterus to escape. This I
disclaim.
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 L
claim is :-
As a new article of manufacture, the hard or soft rubber pessary hereinbefore
described, the same consisting of the concavo-convex part and the stem having
longitudinal and cross-slots in its upper portion and projecting from the concave side
of the other part with which it is moulded integrally, as described.
544
PRUCE
tans Con day of August 1000.
A. O. MCCORD.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London,
Patent Avents.