AN IMPROVED PAD OR CUSHION FOR CORNS, BUNIONS, AND SUCH LIKE DISEASES OF THE HUMAN Foor
Year: 1884

page_text: I, JOHN JAMES KENNEDY, of Great Brunswick Street, Dublin, Ireland,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED
PAD OR CUSHION FOR CORNS, BUNIONS, AND SUCH LIKE DISEASES OF THE HUMAN
Foor," to be as follows:-
This Invention is designed to produce a pad or cushion for obviating friction or
pressure on corns, bunions, and such like diseases to which the human foot is
subject; and consists in forming a bag or pouch of india rubber, partly filled with
air and wool, and made of a suitable size and shape, according to the part to which
it is to be applied. This bag or pouch is placed immediately in the neighborhood of
the diseased part it is intended to relieve, and may be placed loose between the
stocking and the foot, or secured in position by a strip of adhesive plaster. The
pressure of the shoe or boot is thus thrown off the tender part, and more equally
distributed than when corn rings and such other expedients are used.
The application of pads or pouches thus prepared will afford instantaneous relief;
and owing to their soft, elastic, and pliable nature said pads will last for years.
These pads may also be used for preventing friction on any part of the human
body after surgical operations, such as vaccination.
Dated thie Third 'doy of Jenner 1001
J. K. FAHIE & SON,
10, Leinster St., Dublin,
Agents for Applicant.

page_text: I, JOHN JAMES KENNEDY, Great Brunswick Street, Dublin, Ireland, Doctor of
the Feet, do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for AN IMPROVED PAD OR
CUSHION FOR CORNS, BUNIONS, AND SUCH LIKE DISEASES OF THE HUMAN FOOT,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This Invention is designed to produce a hygienic and antiseptic pad or cushion
for instantaneously and mechanically removing pressure and friction off corns,
bunions, or any tender part of the human foot and hiding deformities of same.
It will be found applicable for other useful purposes.
The pad or cushion consists in forming a bag or pouch of india-rubber entirely,
or partly, filled with air, or wool, or any suitable soft substance, or may be filled
by a combination of air with any of the aforesaid substances, and made of a
suitable size and shape according to the part to which it is to be applied.
This bag or pouch is placed immediately behind, or in the neighborhood of the
distorted or diseased part it is intended to relieve or hide. It may be fastened in
position outside the stocking, or placed loosely between the stocking and the foot,
or secured by adhesive plaster.
The pressure or friction of the boot is thus mechanically thrown off the tender
part more effectually than when corn rings are used; and owing to the elastic and
antiseptic nature of my improved pad or cushion, it is cleaner, and more suited to
giving relief to inflamed, tender, or suppurated corns and bunions than the corn
rings just referred to, as hitherto used.
The application of these pads or pouches in the manner described tends towards
increasing the circulation, and causes the absorption of matter and disintegration
of the hardest cuticle by removing the cause.
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
An improved pad or cushion for removing pressure or friction from corns and
bunions, or any tender part of the human foot, and hiding deformities of
same, constructed and applied in the manner substantially as herein
described.