Generating and applying electricity for medicinal or other purposes, &c. : letters patent to Robert Vacy Ash of Marylands Road, Saint Peter's Park in the county of Middlesex for an invention of "An improved method of generating and applying electricity for medicinal or other purposes, and in the " : Sealed the 1st July 1879, and dated the 28th April 1879.

  • Ash, Robert Vacy
Date:
1883
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Credit: Generating and applying electricity for medicinal or other purposes, &c. : letters patent to Robert Vacy Ash of Marylands Road, Saint Peter's Park in the county of Middlesex for an invention of "An improved method of generating and applying electricity for medicinal or other purposes, and in the " : Sealed the 1st July 1879, and dated the 28th April 1879. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A.D. 1883, l^th April. N° 1895. Generating and Applying Electricity for Medicinal or other Purposes, &c. LETTERS PATENT to Robert Vacy Ash of Mary lands Road. Saint Peter’s Park in the County of Middlesex for an Invention of “ An improved method of GENERATING AND APPLYING ELECTRICITY FOR MEDICINAL OR OTHER PURPOSES, AND IN THE MEANS EMPLOYED THEREFOR ” PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Vacy Ash at tho Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 14th April 1883. Robert Vacy Ash of Marylands Road S* Peters Park in the County of Middlesex “ An Improved method of generating and applying Electricity 6 for Medicinal or other purposes and in the means employed therefor ” The object and design of this Invention is to afford a more perfect means than has yet been attained for the production of electric and magnetic currents and discharges in and upon substances and surfaces of wearing apparel worn by human or other living beings in such a manner as to ensure the production of currents or 10 discharges in any required direction and with the proper power over the whole surface to be treated The means hitherto employed for this purpose have been chains or bands having the properties of chains in which the joints or connections always become corroded after short use whereby the electrical action is reduced and finally stopped so far as the terminal plates are concerned in which case tho 15 chain or band becomes inoperative The system of chains also involve the removal of the chain or band to different parts of the body in fact to the part desired whereas according to my invention, hereinafter described there is this important difference that the moisture or vapour of one part is made to perform the part of the liquid excitant to generate a current which owing to the “ polar extensions ” 20 is applied to another part of the body. The magnetic or electrical effects are to be produced according to my invention by an arrangement of sensitive metallic or other magnetic or electrical current [Price 4d]