A MEDICAL ELECTRIC BATH FOR MEN AND ANIMALS, ON THE FILTERING PRINCIPLE, BY TRIPLE CURRENT WHICH IS CONNECTED WITH THE EARTH
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Adolphe Danilecki, of 25, Grafton Street, Fitzroy
Square, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "A MEDICAL
ELECTRIC BATH FOR MEN AND ANIMALS, ON THE FILTERING PRINCIPLE, BY
TRIPLE CURRENT WHICH IS CONNECTED WITH THE EARTH."-A communication
from abroad by Jean Baptiste Marie Potin, of 21, Rue Berault,
Vincennes, France.
Sealed the 4th April 1868, and dated the 9th October 1867.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Adolphe Danilecki at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and Declara-
tion, on the 9th October 1867, pursuant to the 9th Section of the
Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ADOLPHE
DANILECKI, of 25, Grafton Street, Fitzroy Square, in the County of Middlesex,
send greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "A MEDICAL ELECTRIC
BATH FOR MEN AND ANIMALS, ON THE FILTERING PRINCIPLE, BY TRIPLE CURRENT
WHICH IS CONNECTED WITH THE EARTH," and have petitioned Her Majesty to
grant unto me, my executors, administrators, and assigns, Her Royal Letters
Patent for the same, and have made solemn Declaration that it has been
communicated to me from abroad by Jean Baptiste Marie Potin, of 21, Rue
Berault, Vincennes, France.
NOW KNOW YE, that J, the said Adolphe Danilecke, do hereby declare
that the following Complete Specification, under my hand and seal, fully

page_text: describes and ascertains the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, in and by the following statement and accom-
panying Drawings, that is to say :-
1st. The bath tub (A) which can be made of stone, marble, Roman cement,
plaster Paris, or brick (see Fig. No. 1).
2nd. A couple of Bunson (of Paris) (B) of which the external vase is porous
and filtering, making one body with the bath tub, which is also porous and
filtering. The bobbin (C) of the electric apparatus is twisted round with a
large thread; in this bobbin is a regulator (D) by which the strength of the
electricity is increased or diminished.
3rd: A metallic plate (E) placed under the Bunson couple to which a
water gauge (F) of cork with a piece of coal in the centre is attached by
metallic plate (E).
4th. A block of coal (G) placed in the bath tub. below the Bunson couple,
and connected by the metallic wire with the apparatus.
5th. A large metallic plate, moveable (H), placed at the head of the bath tub
in such a way that it may be put lower or higher according to the require-
ments of a patient; this metallic plate is also connected with the electric
apparatus.
6th. The liquor of the electric pile is composed of bichromate of potassium,
sulphuric acid, and water.
7th. Foot and hand baths are prepared in the same way, see Figs. No. 2
and 9.
The medical electric bath composed in this way exercises a general
continual action upon the whole nervous, circulatory, and locomotive system,
without the shock of which every one is afraid, such electricity agitating
regularly all parts of the body externally as well as internally, carrying in its
motions all the unhealthy fluids of the body, and imparting to all the organs
the proper substances with which the bath is prepared for each illness.
In witness whereof, I, the said Adolphe Danilecki, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighth day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
ADOLPHE DANILECKI. (L.S.)