A Medical Inhaler with a Thermometer Attached.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 1th Apr.; 1896
Complete Specification Left, 26th Sept., 1896-Accepted, 15th Apr., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Medical Inhaler with a Thermometer Attached.
ELIZABETH ROWLAND 2 Duke Street Manchester Square London W. do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows
The medical inhaler is about the size of a large watch with one or two stoppers
according to requirements, with an inderubber tube, and pipe for the duble
stoppers, and a small cup is with each inhaler. The inhalers are filled with cotton
wool over which is a wire gauze, and. I saturate the contents with the oils I use
for my inhaler and on the out side of the inhaler is fitted a small circular watch
shaped ether thermometer ranging from 40 to 70 degrees Farh. or a higer degree.
In some cases I shall use a curved murcery thermometer in place of the ether
thermometer.
Dated this 20th day of August 1896.
ELIZABETH ROWLAND.
ELIZABETH ROWLAND 2 Duke. Street Manchester Square London W. 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:-
The inhalers are made of silver or nickel silver thickly plated or such suitable
material of a circular watch shape and likewise the thermometer, they are made
about 2 in. in diamater, and 1 in. deep at the sides. The bottom is hard soldered
to the sides and one side contains one or two outlets about half in. long A A
the inside of which contains a screw thread to which screw stoppers with a thin
layer of rubber is screwed. The rubber is to prevent evaparation.
Fig. 4 is a sectional view of the inhaler. Over the lower end of the outlets
inside the inhaler is a fine wire gauze D it is soldered to the side of the inhaler
to keep in the prepared wool felt or fiber or some good absorbant material B with
which the inhalers are closely packed, and which I saturate with the contents I use
for my medical treatment.
The plain inhaler Fig. 1 is quite filled with the absorbants B over which the
plain top is soldered to the sides like the bottom as above discribed.
Fig. 2 the bottom, sides and outlets A A are made as discribed above. The
sides in this inhaler contain a screw thread on the inside about a tin. from the top
or front to which a small mercury thermometer is screwed to the said inhaler by
the screw thread. This inhaler is about two thirds packed with the absorbants B
over which is soldered a thin sheet of plated matal to the insides of the inhaler C.
The mercury thermometer is made in a case of silver or metal about in. deep
the sides of which contain_a_screw_thread which is screwed to the inside screw

page_text: hreads at the top, inside the inhaler, which said sides of the inhaler are raised to
the height at the top of the thermometer, leaving only the glass face of the
thermometer to show the temperature of the room which should not be higher
than 65 Fah. in most cases.
Fig. 3 is the inhaler made as above discribed in Fig. 1 with the silver top
brought over like a hunting watch leaving only a small space in the center of the
inhaler, to which a small ether thermometer is screwed or to be attached in the
simplest way possable to be removed for taking the temperature of the patient or
any other purpose. The ether thermometer will usually be the same as that used
by Mr. Iminesch as discribed in Specification No. 2953 of 1881.
Fig. 8 is a vulcanite or silver tube about 4 in. long the end A' is screwed into
one of the out lets in the inhaler A. when in use, while the curved end C is held
into the ear.
Fig. 6 B 7 B is a baby bottle rubber pipe about 12 in. long with a hard piece of
rubber at one end A2 to screw or press into the other out let A. The other end d
is the mouth piece it is a short tube of vulcanite attached to the rubber pipe by
which the patient gently blows the medical remedy contained in the inhaler in to
the ear, which is my treatment for deafness.
Fig. 5 is a cup about 1 in. in diamater it is screwed to one of the outlets A.
The cup is held to the closed eye. This is my treatment for inflamed eyelids weak
eyes or blindness. A cup about 2 in. in diamater is screwed to an out let A and
held to any part of the patient where pain exists and is convenient and preferable
in every way to mustard or other poultices. And when held to the temples or the
back of the neck, or the calf of the leg is most soothing and effectual for
sleeplessness, or the patient can inhale simply through the nose from an out let A
when the eyes and mouth should be closed. In this simple way the inhaler is
used for enlarged inflamed noses for asthma bronchitis lung and throat or head
affections.
Influenza cold or catarrh headache toothache or neuralgia in any form consumption
or hay fever are all effictually relived or cured by this simple effictual medical
treatment.
Having now particularly discribed 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. The improved plain inhaler substantially as hereinbefore described.
2. The combination of the inhaler and the thermometer attached, and means
of attaching the said thermometer to the inhaler by means of screw threads
substantially as described in this specification.
Dated this 7th day of April 1897.
ELIZABETH ROWLAND.