Year: 1899

page_text: I, JOSEPH BELLVER, of Ayora, Province of Valencia, Spain, Military Surgeon,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
If a poultice or liquid capable of cultivating germs is used matter will form.
At first this matter will form quickly and after a few days disinfection of the
wound will have taken place as well as a decrease of matter and the healing
will be quickly followed.
This fact has been well established; when panspermism was first introduced
and clearly explained by Pasteur, the killing of microbes should never have
occured to medical men, who would then have confined themselves to an explana-
tion in respect of the isolation, separation, and elimination of microbes, and
instead of antiseptic treatment, a way would have been open to science to septi-
fuge treatment, for the benefit of human beings. But as Pasteur prevented
fermenting in wines and ales in order to preserve them, it was thought by the
doctors, advisable to apply the same principle for the prevention of putrid fer-
ments in human beings whatever may be their place.
Tho exudations are preserved on the infected surface by the poultice or the
like whenever a waterproof covering is placed on the said surface but nothing
is so good as india rubber.
The
Thus the great inconvenience of using an homogeneous india rubber bandage
is that it causes pustules and blisters to appear on other places than the wound
covered by the bandage quite as difficult to cure as the primary disease.
homogeneous bandage is costly and too soon worn out, on account of the heat,
which causes the various parts of the bandage to stick together when in contact.
For all the above reasons I have invented a bandage made of pieces of india
rubber and linen (or other fabric) secured together in alternate order which
bandage may cure the place it covers by preserving the liquids containing living
germs and preventing the formation of scabs (scurfs) which are an impediment
to the liquid part of exudations. This bandage does no harm to the other parts
covered and at the same time is cheaper, as it may be used again with proper
disinfected.
The india rubber and linen (or any other fabric) forming this bandage may
be of any suitable length or width and the india rubber more or less vulcanized.
This latter part as well as the former may be at the end or in the middle of
the bandage according to requirements in the making of bandages and its
applications to compress-bandages, the joint between the india rubber and linen
being made by usual means.
This bandage forms a curative band and effects
1st. The healing without suppuration of non-infected wounds,
2nd. The disinfection and healing of wounds infected even in the case when
disinfection has not taken place for many years by employing disinfectants

page_text: 3rd. With this bandage a child may cure what science and men have not
been able to cure for a long time,
4th. This bandage is very easily used and applied because it is sufficient to
clean it with water and soap, in order to replace it on the wound also, cleaned
with water and soap and there is no need to use antiseptics,
5th. a) Canterizations and excisions of fleshy lumps are unnecessary and even
harmful because nobody is much inclined to suffer burning or cutting without
need,
b) Lint pledgets and stoppers of lint are not useful but harmful,
c) Scars cannot come out unless desired;
d) With this bandage the time required for healing a wound may be fixed
as no further accident need be feared,
e) To sum up one may say, all cures are effected painlessly.
I, JOSEPH BELLVER, of Ayora, Province of Valencia, Spain, Military Surgeon,
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: -
If a poultice or liquid capable of cultivating germs is used matter will form.
At first this matter will form quickly and after a few days disinfection of the
wound will have taken place as well as a decrease of matter and the healing
will be quickly followed.
This fact has been well established; when panspermism was first introduced
and clearly explained by Pasteur, the killing of microbes should never have
occured to medical men, who would then have confined themselves to an explana-
tion in respect of the isolation, separation, and elimination of microbes, and
instead of antiseptic treatment, a way would have been open to science to septi-
fuge treatment, for the benefit of human beings. But as Pasteur prevented
fermenting in wines and also in order to preserve them, it was thought by the
doctors, advisable to apply the same principle for the prevention of putrid fer-
ments in human beings whatever may be their place.
The exudations are preserved on the infected surface by the poultice or the
like whenever a waterproof covering is placed on the said surface but nothing
is so good as india rubber.
Thus the great inconvenience of using an homogeneous india rubber bandage
is that it causes pustules and blisters to appear on other places than the wound
covered by the bandage quite as difficult to cure as the primary disease. The
homogeneous bandage is costly and too soon worn out, on account of the heat,
which causes the various parts of the bandage to stick together when in contact.
For all the above reasons I have invented a bandage made partly of india
rubber and partly of linen (or other fabric), the india rubber portion being
inserted at any place in the continuity or joined at one end of the fabric. In
using the bandage the india rubber portion is placed direct over the wound so
as to prevent the formation of scabs (scurfs) which are an impediment to the
liquid part of exudations. This bandage does no harm to the other parts covered

page_text: and at the same time is cheaper, as it may be used again when properly disin-
fected.
The india rubber and linen (or any other fabric) forming this bandage may
be of any suitable length or width and the india rubber more or less vulcanized.
As previously described the said india rubber portion may be at the end or in
the middle of the bandage according to requirements in the making of bandages
and its application to compress-bandages, the joint between the india rubber
and linen being made by the usual means, say by stitching
This bandage forms a curative band and effects-
1st. The healing without suppuration of non-infected wounds,
2nd. The disinfection and healing of wounds infected even in the case when
disinfection has not taken place for many years by employing disinfectants
and antiseptics,
3rd. With this bandage a child may cure what science and men have not
been able to cure for a long time,
4th. This bandage is very easily used and applied because it is sufficient to
clean it with water and soap, in order to replace it on the wound also cleaned
with water and soap and there is no need to use antiseptics,
5th. ) Canterizations and excisions of fleshy lumps are unnecessary and even
harmful because nobody is much inclined to suffer burning or cutting without
need,
b) Lint pledgets and stoppers of lint are not useful but harmful,
c) Scars cannot come out unless desired,
d) With this bandage the time required for healing a wound may be fixed
as no further accident need be feared,
e) To sum up one may say, all cures are effected painlessly.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
A surgical bandage formed partly of india rubber and partly of woven fabric
joined together, all substantially as set forth.
Thi QKEL
Moh
1900
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester, Agents to Applicant.