Improvements in the Method of and Means for Electrically Extract- ing Poisons from the Human Body.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Method of and Means for Electrically Extract-
ing Poisons from the Human Body.
I, JOHN BUNYAN CAMPBELL, of Fairmount, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A., Doctor
of Medicine, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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The object of this invention is to provide means whereby poisons may be
extracted from the human body, the nature of the poison be indicated, and
further to provide a means of curing all kinds of diseases by extracting the
cause and leaving the affected part in a condition suitable for healing.
The invention comprises a suitable battery, which is capable of having its
negative electrode provided with interchangable receivers, consisting of animal,
vegetable, or mineral substance to extract a poison from the body of a nature
or kind corresponding with or to the negative electrode employed.
In operation, the positive electrode is brought into contact with the neck of
the person operated upon. Various substances connected to the negative electrode
are then placed beneath the feet, or to any diseased part, and the current passed
through the body. If the patient be suffering from animal poison, an animal
substance, such as raw meat, is placed beneath the feet or to the diseased part to
collect the current as it passes from the body. If a vegetable or mineral poison
is to be extracted, the electrode consists, respectively, of a vegetable substance,
such as a leaf, or a metal plate, such as copper.
The nature of the poison extracted will be indicated by discolouration of the
electrode beneath the feet or at the diseased part.
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R. RAINSFORD,
Agent for Applicant.
Improvements in the Method of and Means for Electrically Extract-
ing Poisons from the Human Body.
I, JOHN BUNYAN CAMPBELL, of Fairmount, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A., Doctor
of Medicine, 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 object of this invention is to provide means whereby poisons may be
extracted from the human body, the nature of the poison extracted he indicated,
and, further, to provide a means of curing all kinds of disease by extracting

page_text: the poison which causes the disease and leaving the affected part in a condition
suitable for healing.
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The invention comprises a suitable battery which is capable of having its
negative electrodes provided with interchangeable receivers of animal,
vegetable, or mineral substance to extract a poison from the-body-of a nature
or kind corresponding with or to the negative electrode employed.
In carrying out my improved method of extracting poisons the positive electrode
is brought into contact with the neck of the person operated upon. Various
substances connected to the negative electrode are then placed beneath the feet,
or to the affected part of the body, and the current passed through the patient.
If the patient be suffering from animal poison, an animal substance, such as
raw-meat, is placed beneath the feet or to the affected part to collect the current
as it passes from the body: if a vegetable or mineral poison is to be extracted
the electrode consists, respectively, of a vegetable substance, such as a leaf, or a
metal plate, such as copper. The nature of the poison extracted will be indicated
by discolouration of the electrode beneath the feet or at the affected part.
Having now particularly described 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:-
The hereindescribed method of extracting poisons from the human body, con-
sisting in providing the negative electrode of an electric battery with inter-
changeable receivers of animal, vegetable or mineral substance, to extract a poison
from the body of a nature.or kind corresponding with or to the negative electrode
employed, as set forth.
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