AN IMPROVED SYRINGING APPARATUS FOR CURING LEUCORRHEA AND SIMILAR SEXUAL DISEASES
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Doctor Ernest Bagnicki, of New York, in the County
and State of New York, in the United States of America, for the Inven-
tion of "AN IMPROVED SYRINGING APPARATUS FOR CURING LEUCORRHEA AND
SIMILAR SEXUAL DISEASES."
Sealed the 1st April 1859, and dated the 8th February 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Doctor Ernst Bagnicki
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
8th February 1859.
I, Doctor ERNEST BAGNICKI, of New York, in the County and State of
New York, in the United States of America, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED SYRINGING APPARATUS FOR CURING
LEUCORRHEA AND SIMILAR SEXUAL DISEASES," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to a peculiar construction and arrangement of
syringing apparatus for curing leucorrhea and similar sexual diseases, and
consists of an apparatus whereby the curing of such diseases is effected by
injection in combination with electricity, which latter acts in connection with
the dormant electricity of the human body so as to produce the desired
electrical effect simultaneously with the injection of the water or other suitable
fluid. For this purpose it is proposed to employ a chair or other convenient
seat fitted below with a tank, which is divided into two chambers by a very fine
sieve placed vertically therein. Into one of these chambers is poured the fluid

page_text: to be injected, and in the other is fitted an ordinary double-action force pump
with peculiarly constructed valve seats or chambers, as herein-after referred to.
The fluid filters through the sieve into the contiguous chamber, and on
working the pump is drawn therein and forced by the aid of a suitable flexible
injection pipe into the womb, the waste fluid running into a separate receptacle,
and being discharged therefrom by a cock for that purpose. The pump may
be worked by a winch handle and gearing or other convenient means. The
valve chambers of the pump are provided with two openings and seats both
precisely the same, and situate one above and the other below a metallic ball
valve. The valve openings are made smaller than the bore of the pipes or
passages leading thereto, and when the pump is at rest the lower openings are
covered by their respective ball valves. On starting the pump, however, the
several ball valves are alternately lifted up to allow the fluid to pass, but as
a valve seat similar to the lower one is placed above each valve, the upper
passage is closed by the rising of the valve, when the ball valve will fall again
by its own gravity, upon the lower seat to be again forced upwards by the fluid.
This alternate vibrating motion of the ball valves between their upper and
lower seats causes a species of electricity to be imparted to the fluid, which
electricity entering the body with the fluid produces the curative effect desired.
By increasing the number of vibrating ball valves, the electricity may be
increased to any desired extent.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Doctor Ernest Bagnicki in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 1st July 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Doctor
ERNEST BAGNICKI, of New York, in the County and State of New York, in the
United States of America, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of February, in the year of our. Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-second year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Doctor Ernest Bagnicki, Her special license that I, the said Doctor
Ernest Bagnicki, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Doctor Ernest Bagnicki, my executors, adminis-
trators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no'others, from time
to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should

page_text: and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man,. an.
Invention for "AN IMPROVED SYRINGING APPARATUS FOR CURING LEUCORRHEA
AND SIMILAR SEXUAL DISEASES," upon the condition (amongst others). that I,
the said Doctor Ernest Bagnicki, by an instrument in writing under
my hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Doctor Ernest Bagnicki, 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, reference being had to the accompanying
Drawings, and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say :-
My said Invention relates to a peculiar construction and arrangement of
syringing apparatus for curing leucorrhea and similar sexual diseases, and
consists of an apparatus whereby the curing of such diseases is effected by
injection in combination with electricity, which latter acts in connection with
the dormant electricity of the human body so as to produce the desired electrical
effect simultaneously with the injection of the water or other suitable fluid.
For this purpose it is proposed to employ a chair or other convenient seat fitted
below with a tank, which is divided into two chambers by a very fine sieve
placed vertically therein. Into one of these chambers is poured the fluid to be
injected, and in the other is fitted an ordinary double-action force pump with
peculiarly constructed valve seats or chambers as herein-after referred to.
The fluid filters through the sieve into the contiguous chamber, and on
working the pump is drawn therein, and forced by the aid of a suitable flexible
injection pipe into the womb, the waste fluid running into a separate receptacle,
and being discharged therefrom by a cock for that purpose. The pump may be
worked by a winch handle and gearing, or other convenient means. The valvo
chambers of the pump are provided with two openings and seats, both precisely
the same, and situate one above and the other below a metallic ball valve.
The valve openings are made smaller than the bore of the pipes or passages
leading thereto, and when the pump is at rest the lower openings are covered
by their respective ball valves. On starting the pump, however, the
several ball valves are alternately lifted.up to allow the fluid to pass, but as
a valve seat similar to the lower one is placed above each valve, the upper
passage is closed by the rising of the valve, when the ball valve will fall again

page_text: by its own gravity upon the lower. seat, to be again forced upwards by the
fluid. This alternate or vibrating motion of the ball valves between their
upper and lower seats causes a species of electricity to be imparted to the fluid,
which electricity entering the body with the fluid produces the curative effect
desired. By increasing the number of vibratory ball valves the electricity may
be increased to any desired extent.
:
And in order that my said Invention may be fully understood, I shall
now proceed more particularly to describe the same, and for that purposé I
shall refer to the several Figures on the Sheet of Drawings hereunto annexed,
the same letters of reference indicating corresponding parts throughout all the
Figures.
Figure I. of the Drawings represents a cross section of my apparatus ;
Figure II. is a horizontal section of the same; Figure III. is an enlarged
section through the pump; and Figure.IV. is a plan of the same.
In carrying out my Invention, I construct in the bottom or lower part of
a chair a tank A, divided by means of a very fine sieve a of wire gauze or
other suitable material into two parts c and d. In the part c the water or other
suitable fluid is poured through the spout f, and thence filters through the
sieve a into the other part d' of the tank, in which latter part a pump B is
placed, by which the fluid is forced up and injected through a flexible tube g
into the womb. Above the tank A another vessel D is placed, over which
the patient sits, and which receives the waste water, which is then allowed to
run off at the back through an opening or cock h. The rod of the pump
projects through the seat of the chair, and is worked by gearing or by any
other means so as to be easily handelled by the person using the apparatus.
The pump which I. propose to employ, and by which the required electricity is
produced, is represented in Figures III. and IIII. This is, with the exception
of the valve chambers, constructed in the usual manner, and is similar to a
double-acting force pump. The valve chambers are here provided with two
openings, one above and one below, similar to each other, and these openings
'are made smaller than the diameter of the pipes or passages leading to and
from the same. When the pump is at rest the lower openings are covered
with the metallic ball valves V. So soon as the pump is set in operation for the
purpose of injecting the water or fluid, the ball valves will be alternately lifted
up to allow the water to pass through the openings into the pump in the usual
manner; but as a valve seat similar to the lower one is likewise formed in
the upper part of the valve chamber, the upper passage which communicates
with the pump or discharge pipe will be closed up by the raising of the ball
valve V, until such ball valve falls again by its own weight upon the lower seat,

page_text: when it is again forced upwards by the action of the pump, until the space in
the pump is filled or emptied. This alternate motion of the ball V between the
lower and upper seats in the valve chamber will be repeated in very quick
successions, and a certain kind of electricity is communicated to the water,
and passes into the same, and is injected with said water and fluid into the
human body, producing thereby the desired effect.
To increase the electricity I increase the number of valve chambers, by
which means any desired strength and amount of electricity may be obtained,
and by actual experiments I have found that the addition of one suction valve
produces as much electricity as the strongest person can bear.
I am aware that different kinds of pumps have been constructed and used
for the purpose of injecting water or other fluids into the human body, and do
not therefore claim the manner of injection by means of a pump generally.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used or carried
into effect, I would observe, in conclusion, that I do not confine or restrict
myself to the precise details or arrangements which I have had occasion to
describe or refer to, as variations may be made therefrom without deviating
from the principles or main features of my said Invention; but what I
consider to be novel and original, and therefore claim as the Invention
secured to me by the berein-before in part recited Letters Patent, is,-
First, the general construction and arrangement of apparatus for curing
certain bodily complaints, as herein-before described.
Second, the combination of the peculiar chair and force pump constructed
in the manner and employed for the purpose herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Doctor Ernest Bagnicki, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Tenth day of June, One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-nine.
DOCTOR ERNEST BAGNICKI. (L.S.)