A Medicated Instrument or Bougie for the Local Treatment of Diseases of the Urethra, Uterus, Prostate, Nose, Ear, Wounds, and Fistulæ.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Aug., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 23rd May, 1889-Accepted. 6th July, 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Medicated Instrument or Bougie for the Local Treatment of
Diseases of the Urethra, Uterus, Prostate, Nose, Ear, Wounds,
and Fistulæ.
1, THOMAS CHRISTY trading as Thomas Christy & Co. 25 Lime Street London E.C.
importers and introducers of new and rare drugs, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
A medicated instrument or bougie consisting of: 1. a wire spring coil, or wire
alone, stem which may be either pliable or rigid, bare or coated with shellac or any
other substance or electroplated; this stem may be of any required length or
diameter. 2. At its lower end, this stem will be fitted with a ring or other form of
handle. 3. At its superior end there will be attached a wire spring coil or wire
frame bulging out in the middle and tapering at both ends (Egg shaped) or of any
other required shape, and which may be made of any suitable material; this frame
may be coated with any medicament necessary for the use of the instrument in the
diseases or ailments for which it may prove suitable.
Dated this 22nd dar of Angust 1888
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Medicated Instrument or Bougie for the Local Treatment of
Diseases of the Urethra, Uterus, Prostate, Nose, Ear, Wounds,
and Fistulæ.
THOMAS CHRISTY, trading as Thomas Christy & Co., importers and introducers
of new and rare drugs 25 Lime Street, London E.C., 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 :-
I take a piece of wire or other material of a suitable size and consistency; I wind
the wire (when adopted) into a coil as shewn in drawing (B) & this for the
purpose of description I will call the "springcoil"; or I take a piece of wire or
other material and wind the coil round it as shewn in fig. 1b, so as to obtain a
required degree of stiffness or pliability. The superior end (F) may be left blunt
as in fig. 1° or made into a loop as in fig. 2°, the lower end C being provided with a
ring of a suitable size. I then according to requirement coat the spring coil with a
thin layer of shellac, rubber solution, or other material, or 1 electroplate it, or if the
I then dip the
drugs do not injure the metal the spring coil may remain bare.
spring coil into the solution comprising the medication until it has taken up the
necessary amount of solution, and mould the mass into the bulbous or enlarged
head (F), and leave it to dry when it is dipped into talc powder. In some instances
the medicated mass is continued down the stem (B) to the ring at end C.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
1. A bougie having a bulbous or enlarged medicated mass at its superior end (F)
of any required shape and size.
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page_text: through its centre (from end to end of the stem) to give to the bougie a desirable
amount of rigidity or pliability, having at its superior end a bulbous or enlarged
medicated mass of any required shape and size with a stem as previously described.
Dated this 22nd day of May 1889.
THOS. CHRISTY.