An Apparatus for the Administration of Electricity to the Human Body in Turkish Baths.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Apr., 1887.
Complete Left, 13th June, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 26th July, 1887.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Apparatus for the Administration of Electricity to the Human
Body in Turkish Baths.
I, MOSES HUMм of 727 Commercial Road East in the County of Middlesex,
Electrician do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
An apparatus fixed in a chair and so made that the person operated upon sits and
receives the Electricity from an apparatus constructed for the purpose from flexible
electrodes fixed in and about the chair in such positions as to pass the Electricity
through any required part of the body at the will of the operator but chiefly to the
vital parts and to the great nervous centres, the spine, the lumbar regions the sciatic
nerves, the stomach and the extremities. In order to accomplish this a woven fabric
nearly as wide as the chair back is fastened to the top rail of the back and hung in
the chair being fastened also to the front seat rail and if necessary carried forward
on to a foot board. This fabric contains the required flexible electrodes connected by
wires with a switch board at the top or back of the chair and from this switch board
wires go to the battery. The fabric hangs loose and so fits close to any person sitting
in the chair.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Apparatus for the Administration of Electricity to the Human
Body in Turkish Baths.
I, MOSES HUMM of 727 Commercial Road East in the County of Middlesex
Electrician do hereby declare the nature of my invention for AN APPARATUS FOR THE
ADMINISTRATION OF ELECTRICITY TO THE HUMAN BODY IN THE TURKISH BATH and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
This invention consists of an apparatus fixed in a chair so made that the person
operated upon sits and receives the Electricity from an apparatus constructed for the
purpose from. flexible electrodes placed in and about the chair in such positions as to
pass the Electricity through any part of the body at the will of the operator but
chiefly through the vital parts and to the great nervous centres, the spine, the lumbar
region, the sciatic nerves, the stomach and the extremities.
In order that the invention may be fully described reference is here made to the
accompanying drawings.
Figure 1'is a representation of the chair in position with foot board in front. From
the top rail A A to the front rail B B is carried a stout cloth but only fastened at the
top rail A. and front rail B. The cloth therefore hangs from the top rail A to the front
rail B so that it presses close to any body who sits in the chair. This cloth contains
the electrodes of flexible conductors and for further clearness this cloth and its
electrodes are shewn in plan in fig. 2 where DEF are the various electrodes, D being
for spine, E for sciatic nerves F for front rail, G (shewn also with chair) is foot board
with its separate electrode.
At the back of the top rail A. a switch board H H is fastened containing switches
to throw the electricity by means of wires to any part, the connecting wires being
carried either through the chair frame or through the cloth as most convenient. A
plan of the switch board and its connections is shewn at the top of figure 2 at H H.
In addition to these electrodes there are three others one on each arm of the chair
along the top as at K K K K and a moveable pad (not shewn in the drawing to be
looped (when required) onto the metal buttons at L L. This pad will contain a flexible
electrode to cover the stomach.
For the purpose of conveying the electric current to the electrodes in and about the
chair I make use of batteries and apparatus especially constructed for the purpose.
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 apparatus so constructed and attached to a chair and fitted with flexible electrodes
in such a manner that the operator can administer Electricity to any person sitting in
the chair and to any part of the body. The apparatus and chair to be used especially
in Turkish, Lamp, or Vapour Baths. The Electricity to be used as a curative power
in the manner set forth in my patents No. 11224 A.D. 1885 and No. 265 A.D. 1884.
Dated this 13th day of June 1887