Specification of William Clark : bath apparatus.

  • William Clark
Date:
1866
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Credit: Specification of William Clark : bath apparatus. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Clark's Improvements in Bath Apparatus. obstacle to tbeir use, and should be removed on account of them benefim effects to health, and the art of healing. These baths are usually taken in a standing position, the person occupying the centre of the bath, which is limited to the contents of the reservoir above, and requires to be replenished in order to repeat the bath. The apparatus requires a large quantity of water which fails with a certain force when the reservoir is full, and when near y empty the force fails to distribute the water, which then falls in a sheet and causes a disagreeable sensation. Such apparatus further occupies a large space little suited to most modern buildings. The apparatus of this Invention, which is constructed on an entneynew principle offers every desirable facility, and also presents the immense advantage of producing an equal and regular ascending and descending projection of the water, with a force appropriate to the requirements of each case, and which can be regulated at pleasure by giving a greater or less impulse to the pump, which ceases at the will of the person taking the bath, who is comfortably seated and works the apparatus without assistance. The advantage of this system will be readily understood, as it requires on y a small quantity of water to work it, and permits of the economical employ¬ ment of mineral waters, sea water, and all the combinations in use in pharmaceutics in the form of baths. The jet when projected upwards with more or less force will be of great advantage for the treatment of all the maladies of the pelvis and those common to the female sex. This arrange¬ ment can be applied with advantage for ladies’ toilet purposes, and in case of pain, all friction is avoided by its continuous and easy action. This apparatus may be substituted for hip baths, which are so incommodious 25 and expensive, and being small does not require to be placed permanently in any particular situation, and can be very easily taken to pieces. This appa ratus throws the shower over the whole of the body where necessary, either simultaneously or separately in the form of rain or in a single jet by simply changing the escape nozzle or distributor. By dispensing with the elevating 30 tube or intercepting the passage of the water, the apparatus is i educed to the form of a hip bath, presenting the necessary advantages and effects for the application of water to the lower parts of the body. The apparatus is composed of a bath A of a circular form forming a seat, the upper part is rounded, and the lower part or bottom pierced with holes for the 35 passage of the water ; the part B, which is connected to it forms the feee reservoir and regulates the jet of the pump ; connected to this reseivoir is the pump C, which is actuated by hand. A tube passes upwards from D to E, which distributes the water furnished by the pump; the point h in the
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