AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR ADMINISTERING DOUCHES AND INJECTIONS WITH CONTINUOUS AND CONTINUAL JET
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Gedge, of the Firm of John Gedge-
and Son, of No. 11, Wellington Street, Strand, in the County of Mid-
dlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR
ADMINISTERING DOUCHES AND INJECTIONS WITH CONTINUOUS AND CONTINUAL
JET." A communication from abroad by Julien Salamon, of 39,
Faubourg Saint Martin, Paris, France.
Sealed the 13th April 1865, and dated the 27th December 1864.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said William Edward Gedge
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and
Declaration, on the 27th December 1864, pursuant to the 9th Section. of
the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
EDWARD GEDGE, of the Firm of John Gedge and Son, of No. 11, Wellington
Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS
POR ADMINISTERING DOUCHES AND INJECTIONS WITH CONTINUOUS AND CONTINUAL
JET," and have petitioned Her Majesty to grant unto me, my executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent for the same, and have
made solemn Declaration that the same is a communication to me from abroad
by Julien Salamon, of 39, Faubourg Saint Martin, Paris, France.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Edward Gedge, do hereby
declare that the following Complete Specification under my hand and seal

page_text: fully describes and ascertains the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, reference being had to the accompanying
Sheet of Drawing, and to the figures and letters of reference placed thereon,
Figure 1 being a side view of this improved apparatus; Figure 2, a section
from back to front; and Figure 3, upper side of lid.
At Figure 1, V indicates a cylindrical vase made of zinc, about 22 inches
high by 14 inches broad, serving for seat to the individual, and as recipient.
C, small hollow cylinder, also of zinc, annexed to and in communication with
the largo vase. It is intended to receive the pump barrel P and render it
immoveable; D, moveable cover or lid, also of zine; A, B, bottom of the
vase, placed obliquely to avoid the use of too great a quantity of water, a
necessary economy when the water used has been medicated; P, pump barrel;
E, F, vulcanized india-rubber tube, screw-threaded at each of its extremities,
to be screwed by one end to the pump, and by the other to a uterine canula;
I, I, small metal tube communicating at the point H with the cavity of the
pump barrel, and opening at I into the small cylinder C. This little tube is
intended to take the water which rises above the piston and transmit it into
the cylinder C, and thence into the recipient V. It is thus prevented from
spouting out by the small orifice at the point K, which is here made to close.
At Figure 2, V' indicates a section of the recipient; R, point of communication
of the small cylinder with the recipient; X, Y, water level, representing
about two quarts, being a sufficient quantity for the play of the apparatus;
L, O, canula or tube of variable shape, accordingly as it may be intended for
douches or simple injections; S, piston handle. At Figure 3, M indicates
the concave lid or cover seen from above; and N, opening cut for the passage
of the hand which holds and directs the canula, it also permits the water to
return to the recipient V.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Gedge, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
W. E. GEDGE. (L.S.)