Improved Vapour Bath.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Aug., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 15th May, 1893-Accepted, 17th June, 1893.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Vapour Bath.
I, JAMES DARSIE MORRISON, 27 Grange Road, Edinburgh, Scotland, North
Britain, Surgeon Dentist, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be
as follows:
This invention relates to bathing the whole body in a running stream of
air, heat, and moisture, whereby to set up, and keep up, between the blood and
the body, two equal and opposite electrical activities, the one, that of the positive,
which mechanico-chemically charges the blood with a high electrical energy, and
the other, that of the negative, which discharges the body of its decompositions.
In order to quite clearly comprehend my invention it will be well to keep in
mind that bionomical research has made known the fact that all animal organiza-
tions are just so many sub-systems of nature, which are, or ought to be, not only,
in harmony with all their own local conditions, but in sympathy with all the laws
of the universe.
Bionomy the science of the laws of life-seeks to set up, within every family
circle, an exact science of home hygiene, whereby every individual may, not only,
quite easily, purify his or her blood, but, by reason of a pure body, make it equally
impossible to take infection, or to give it. To this personal purification of the body,
must come the only true science of public health.
To thus take up the initiative of an entirely new institution of health for the
people, whereby each individual may contribute a higher health towards the wealth
of the world, I shall now briefly describe the household bionomic bath.
The bionomic bath, as its name denotes, has for its object the practical applica-
tion of the laws of life, to the exalting of the health of the people; and which
may be briefly described as follows:-
The bionomic bath, as intended to be made and used naturally divides itself into
three separate descriptions; the bath as a whole; how it is built or put together;
and how best to use it in order to get out of it all the advantages that are in it.
The bath as a whole may be said to look like an enclosed wardrobe, having
within it at one end a very high heating stove-range, at the other end, the means
of letting fall a shower of chemically pure warm water; and, in the middle, the
place proper for the bather to exercise any muscle, or muscles, while bathing in
the running streams of air, heat, and moisture. The bath, as a whole, or in part
may, or may not, be made either a conductor or an insulator.
The general make up of the bath, which may be made of any non-conducting
material, is that of a kind of tent, or small room, and, of course, fairly airtight
throughout, except at certain places where the streams of air, heat and moisture
enter the bath to expend their streaming energies, and also where the streams,
together or separately, make their respective exits. Within this tent or small
room (itself a complete electrical gymnasium), there are fitted up all manner of
metal tubular appliances to enable the bather, at will, and while bathing in the
running streams of air, heat, and moisture, to take any required exercises, which
may, or may not, be set to nature and to music. These metal appliances have
three separate uses: First, because being made of metal, they are used as the best
conductors of electricity and heat, to conduct, direct from the bather to the earth, ali
the negative electrifications no longer required. 'Secondly, because they are tubes,
they are used to, not only, complete and perfect a clear through passage for the escape
of all bad matters, excreted from the body, but for continuing into the higher vacuum
of the chimney the lower vacuum of any dry-cupping of the skin, whereby the
body is, not only, relieved from the pressure. produced by the poison, seeking

page_text: escape, but the blood itself is freed from the cause of it. Thirdly, and, though
last, not least, the metallic appliances are, in reality, the gymnastic apparatus,
which, by reason of greater strength and variety of form, can offer advantages
which no wooden apparatus could attempt, much less accomplish.
The use of the bath as stated in the title is to, mechanico-chemically and hydro-
electrically, exalt the health of the people, or in other words, has for its object no
less an ambition than to see its daily use in every home; stamp out of civilization
all preventable disorders whatsoever. And more than this, I believe that the
science of bionomy contains, within itself, the promise and potency of bringing
within easy reach of the near future the removal of the cause of cancer, by nature
pure and simple.
This invention is equally applicable to exalting the health of the insane, and to
helping others to recover the use of lost senses. Also to exalting the health of
horses, and generally, to exalting the health of all the lower animals, where free,
open exercises in a running stream of air, heat, and moisture, may be taken.
Dated 15th August 1892.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Vapour Bath.
I, JAMES DARSIE MORRISON, Surgeon Dentist, 27 Grange Road, Edinburgh,
Scotland, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
The object of my invention is to effect improvements in vapour baths, and in
means and appliances in connection therewith.
And in order that my said invention may be particularly described and ascer-
tained, reference is hereby made to the accompanying drawing, being a sectional
elevation of my improved bath, and illustrating one method of carrying out my
improvements.
The bath consists of an enclosed space or room, 1, 1, being the outer walls;
2 is a floor, extending partly across the bath. 3 is a wall enclosing the stove 4.
5 is the chimney or flue. 6 is a boiler exposed to the action of the fire in the
stove 4, for producing steam of suitable pressure. 7 is another boiler for producing
vapour mixed with air. 8 is a pipe which admits air to the boiler 7, just above
the level of the water. 9 is a chamber which receives the steam, vapour and air
from the boilers 6 and 7. 10 is the ash pit of the stove, which is enclosed to act
as au air chamber. 11 is one of a number of pipes. which carries air and vapour
downwards from above the floor 2 to the chamber 10. 12 is a space, on a lower
level than the floor 2, where condensed water collects, and which may be used as a
lavatory for washing. 13 is one of a number of tubes to carry exhausted air to
the chimney 5. 14, 14 are openings which admit pure air to the upper part of the
bath, 15 is a short open tube communicating with the chamber 9. 16 is a similar
tube communicating with the chamber 10.
The bather stands, or reclines, or exercises himself, gymnastically or otherwise,
upon the floor 2. The high pressure steam from the boiler 6 issues into the room
through the opening 15, and, in so doing, carries with it, by induction, air and
vapour from the boiler 7. Air entering freely into the steam space in this boiler
by the pipe 8, from without, reduces the temperature of the steam from the
boiler 6. The mixed stream of steam air and vapour is thus reduced to a suitable
temperature for the human body, and is yet sufficiently high to cause profuse
perspiration to issue from the person. As the mixed atmosphere becomes
condensed, it is carried by pipes 11 to the hot chamber 10, where it receives an
additional amount of caloric, and again enters the room by the passage 16.
The proper circulation of the atmosphere of the room is also assisted by the

page_text: pipes 13, carrying it away into the flue 5. Additional openings 14 are made for
admitting pure cold air to the upper part of the room.
I prefer to use, (for purposes of economy) a stove of the kind called
"American," popularly known as Smith & Wellstood's No. 7 Victoria cooking
stove range, and fit into the two front openings two well-tinned copper boilers 6
and 7. Other stoves may obviously be used and the forms of the boilers may be
varied to effect the object described.
The space 12, at a lower level than the floor 2, receives the water arising from
the condensed vapour, and this space, with the water contained therein, forms a
convenient lavatory for the feet.
The entire bath, and its metallic fittings and connections with the stove and flue,
may be insulated, so that the electrical energy of the steam may be carried to the
person of the bather, and put in circuit by conductors led directly from the person
to the earth, either generally, as in the cure of skin disorders, or locally, as in the
case of failure of the heart's action, insanity or disorders of the brain, cancer,
consumption, or other disorders, hitherto considered to be incurable.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In a vapour bath, the combination of a high pressure steam boiler 6, with a
low pressure steam boiler 7, the steam from the boiler 6 operating upon the injector
principle, and the boiler 7 being supplied with air, so that the air and steam from
the boiler 7 are driven into the bath by and with the steam from the high pressure
boiler 6, substantially as and for the purposes herein before described and illustrated
by the drawing.
2. The improved method of bathing the person in an atmosphere of air, heat,
and moisture; causing the excretion from the person of the bather of effete matter,
for the purpose of curing disorders, and reducing liability to disorders of the
system, substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the drawing.
3. The general construction, arrangement, and combination of the several and
respective parts, together forming my invention of an improved vapour bath,
substantially as herein before described and illustrated by the drawing.
1000
GEO. DOWNING,
8, Quality Court, London, W.C., Agent.
GEO.
DOWNING,
8, Quality Court, London, W.C., Agent.