IMPROVEMENTS IN MEDICAL APPLIANCES FOR THE CUBE OR RELIEF OF NERVOUS AND OTHER DISEASES." PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Gothwicko Whiting, of 2, Queen's
Buildings, Queen Victoria Street, in the City of London, and
5, Park Villas, Loughton Park, in the County of Essex, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEDICAL APPLIANCES FOR THE CUBE OR
RELIEF OF NERVOUS AND OTHER DISEASES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Gothwicke
Whiting at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 24th September 1875.
I, HENRY GOTHWICKE WHITING, of 2, Queen's Buildings, Queen
Victoria Street, in the City of London, and 5, Park Villas, Loughton
Park, in the County of Essex, do hereby declare the nature of tho said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEDICAL APPLIANCES FOR THE CURE OR
RELIEF OF NERVOUS AND OTHER DISEASES," to be as follows:-
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This Invention has for its object improvements in medical appliances
for the cure or relief of nervous and other disease.

page_text: It is now well known that magnetism has a very potent influenco
when applied to the cure of nervous and other disease, and many
arrangements of apparatus have already been designed and Patentod
for the convenient and effectual application of magnetism for this
purposc.
According to my Invention I employ magnetised plates of thin steel
which are perforated, and I obtain a polarity not only at the ends or the
sides of the bars or plates but also around the circumference of the
holes.
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I also according to my Invention combine with the magnets crystals 1
of quartz or fluor spar, or it may be of other substances, in such
manner as to intensify the action of the apparatus, but it is not essential
that these agents should be used in combination.
In order mechanically to protect the magnets from oxidation from
contact with the moisture of the body I coat them with several coatings 1
of a flexible paint or varnish and cover them with and attach to them a
woven fabric.
In some cases I use magnets of wire woven together to form a gauze,
such magnets having considerable power and being very flexible are
very suitable for use according to my Invention; or I can employ
flexible magnets produced by incorporating particles of steel or iron
with india-rubber or such like material.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henry Gothwicke Whiting in the Great Scal
Patent Office on the 23rd March 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
GOTHWICKE WHITING, of 2, Queen's Buildings, Queen Victoria Strect,
in the City of London, and 5, Park Villas, Loughton Park, in the
County of Essex, send greeting.
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her 3
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of September, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-

page_text: cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Henry Gothwicke Whiting,
Her special license that I, the said Henry Gothwicke Whiting, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Henry Gothwicke Whiting, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
3 should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should
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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEDICAL APPLIANCES FOR
THE CURE OR RELIEF OF NERVOUS AND OTHER DESEASES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Henry Gothwicke Whiting, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my,
or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of tho 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Gothwicke Whiting, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say: —
This Invention has for its object improvements in medical appliances
for the cure or relief of nervous and other deseases.
It is now well known that magnetism has a very potent influence
when applied to the cure of nervous and other disease and many
arrangements of apparatus have already been designed and patented
for the convenient and effectual application of magnetism for this
purpose.
According to my Invention I employ magnetised plates of thin steel
which are perforated, and I obtain a polarity not only at the ends or the
sides of the bars or plates, but also around the circumference of the
hole.
I also, according to my Invention, combine with the magnets
crystals of quartz or fluor spar, or it may be of other substances in such
manner as to intensify the action of the apparatus, but it is not essential
that these agents should be used in combination,

page_text: Figures 1 to 7 show perforated magnets such as I employ; they are
constructed of steel sufficiently thin to be flexible, and they are 1
magnetised so as to have polarity around the perforations in addition to
the polarity possessed by ordinary magnets. Hence their medical
influence is materially greater than that of any of the magnets hcreto-
fore employed for the relief of disease.
yet very efficient 2
It consists of thin
The gauze is then
Figure 8 represents another very flexible and
magnet constructed according to my Invention.
steel wire woven into a gauze when in a soft state.
cut into strips of the dimensions required: The strips are then hardened
and tempered to a spring temper and carefully magnetised. Both of
these descriptions of magnets I protect from oxidation by applying to 2
them coatings of good and flexible paint or varnish.
In positions where softness and pliability are essential I employ
perforated magnets made by incorporating small particles of iron or
preferably steel with gutta percha, but magnets so constructed are
necessarily less powerful, and I avoid their use where the magnets 8
previously described are applicable. But in most cases I do not rely
simply upon magnetic influence, but have recourse also to the mysterious
influence which crystals exert on the human frame. I select crystals of
large size, either natural or artificial, and cut from them long flat slices,
such as is shown at a, in Figures 9. To prevent these portions of &
crystal breaking in wear I enclose them in metal cases, such as are

page_text: shown at b. The cases may be made of steel and magnetised, and this
is a very convenient method for obtaining the magnetic and crystalline
influences combined, and in intimate connection the one with the other;
or the crystals may be contained in cases or bags in which magnets may
also be enclosed.
In some cases I employ crystals only, but I believe that the animal
and mental functions of man and the mamalia generally are more
powerfully influenced by the combined magnetic crystalline radiations
than by either of the radiations operating singly.
Figures 10 to 14 show garments and appliances of various forms; they
are made of two or more thicknesses of fabric, between which the
magnets and crystals are enclosed.
What I claim is the construction of medical appliances for the cure
or relief of nervous and other diseases, substantially as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Gothwicke Whiting, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of March,.
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
six.