Specification of George Kershaw
Subtitle: medico-electric surfaces
Publisher: Great Seal Patent Office
Published: 1861
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Belts (Clothing); Metals; Therapeutic use; Paralysis; Therapy
Description: Patent for a device "to produce medico-electric surfaces to be applied to such parts of the human body as require an artificial excitement to restore the functional energy of the nervous or membranous system of those parts". Basically, plates of metal (copper or zinc) which will "be set in action" by "reason of the moisture of the skin" which counteract paralysis.
Notes: Cover title.

At head of title: A.D. 1860, 24th August. No. 2046.

"George Kershaw, of Upton Cottage, Slough, in the county of Bucks, stationer."