AN IMPROVED COMBINATION FOR THE PRODUCTION OF VOLTAIC ELECTRICITY, AND ITS APPLICATION AS A CURATIVE ADAM AD MID HEAD BAD
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Marc Antoine François Mennons, of the British
⚫ and Foreign Patent Offices, 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, in the Empire
of France, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED COMBINATION FOR THE
PRODUCTION OF VOLTAIC ELECTRICITY, AND ITS APPLICATION AS A CURATIVE
ADAM AD MID HEAD BAD"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Marc Antoine François
Mennons at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 2nd November 1858.
I, MARC ANTOINE FRANÇOIS MENNONS, of the British and Foreign Patent
Offices, 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, in the Empire of France, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED COMBINATION FOR
THE PRODUCTION OF VOLTAIC ELECTRICITY, AND ITS APPLICATION AS A CURATIVE
AGENT TO CERTAIN PARTS OF THE HUMAN BODY," a communication, to be us
follows:-
The Invention consists in a voltaic arrangement composed of zinc and
copper wires twisted together or connected byother suitablemeans accordingto
the after form required.
The voltaiccouples thus composed are then worked into hair nets,hair pins,
circlets for the head,garters,etc., etc., to be employed as direct distributors of
the galvanic current to the part affected.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Marc Antoine François Mennons in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 18th April 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I. MARC
ANTOINE FRANÇOIS MENNONS, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices, 39,
Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, in the Empire of France, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-second year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Marc Antoine Frangos Mennons, Her special license that I,
the said Marc Antoine François Mennons, my executors, administrators, and.
assigns, or such others as I, the said Marc Antoine François Mennons, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, 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 "AN IMPROVED COMBINATION FOR THE PRODUCTION
OF VOLTAIC ELECTRICITY AND ITS APPLICATION AS A CURATIVE AGENT TO CERTAIN
PARTS OF THE HUMAN BODY," (a communication,) upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Marc Antoine François Menuons, 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 the 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 immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Marc Antoine François Mennons 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, reference being had to the accompanying
Drawing:-
The Invention communicated to me consists in an improved means of
producing voltaic electricity and applying it as a curative agent to certain
parts of the human body. The accompanying Drawing represents different
forms of the combination.
Fig. 1 is a crown, or circlet composed of alternate zinc and copper wires,

page_text: twisted together, and so arranged as to be applied directly to the head, or
fitted inside any suitable head covering.
Fig. 2 represents a garter formed in the same way of twisted copper and
zinc wire, connected at the extremities a, a, b, b.
Fig. 3 is a hair pin also formed of zinc or iron and copper wires twisted
together.
Fig. 4 is a similar pin composed of several voltaic couples, formed of zinc
or iron and copper, as above.
Fig. 5 is another hair pin, in which one branch is formed of an electro-
positive and the other of an electro-negative metal, soldered together at the
point a.
Fig. 6 is a hair pin formed as the above, of single wires, the forked part
being in zinc, and the extremities in copper, soldered at the points a, b.
Fig. 7 is a hair pin formed of thin copper wire rolled over a zinc core, or of
thin zinc wire on a copper core.
It is needless to observe that other metals, such as gold, silver, platinum,
aluminium, etc., etc., may be substituted to the copper in these combinations
and that in certain cases the zinc may be replaced by a corresponding oxidable
metal.
In following up the principle above laid down an infinite variety of arrange-
ments may be formed for the topical application of the current without having
recourse to separate conductors, the metallic elements being worked into hair
nets, circlets for the head and arms, pins, garters, etc., etc., which, while
serving the purposes for which they are generally employed, act as direct
distributors of the voltaic fluid to the parts affected.
In witness whereof, I, the said Marc Antoine François Mennons, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Tenth day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.