Patent ID: 7069073

Claim:
A method of treatment by electrokinetic self-administration of a medicament into a treatment site for an individual, comprising: providing a device shaped in part to conform to at least a portion of an individual's finger and having a self-contained power source, first and second electrodes, and a substrate in electrical contact with said first electrode and having an exposed contact surface; providing at least one of an electrokinetically transportable medicament or a medicament with an electrically conductive carrier therefor; releasably retaining the device on the individual's finger, with the second electrode in electrical contact with the individual's finger; providing said at least one medicament in contact with said substrate or the treatment site; while the device remains retained on the individual's finger, placing the contact surface of said substrate into contact with the individual's treatment site and causing electrical current to flow through said first electrode, the electrically transportable medicament or the conductive carrier, the treatment site, the individual's body, said second electrode and said power source to electrokinetically drive the medicament into the treatment site.