Specification of Edmund Adolphus Kirby : dispensing medicines.

  • Kirby, Edmund Adolphus.
Date:
1868
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Credit: Specification of Edmund Adolphus Kirby : dispensing medicines. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Specification. 3 A.D. 1867.—N“ 2239. Kirby s Improved System of Dispensing Medicines^ and dissolve in water to the required strength. Any other combinations or prescriptions may be made up in a similar manner at a moments notice and administered at once to the patient either internally or externally according to the effect desired to be produced. 5 Ihe second part of my Invention has been designed principally with a view to carrying out the improved system above described, and to supply medical men with a portable and ready means of dispensing the medicines which they prescribe during their visits to their patients and at their own homes, and to afford a convenient mode of carrying with them besides medicines certain 10 clinical and other instruments which are necessary and constantly required at the bedside in the investigation or treatment of disease or injuries, together with convenient writing materials for taking notes or writing prescriptions. The Invention is also designed and adapted to the requirements of travellers, colonists, and others resident at a distance from medical men and chemists, 15 and it is suitable for domestic use and all the purposes for which a medicine chest and instrument case are employed, both by professional men and others. The novelty of this part of the Invention consists principally in the general construction and arrangement of the case, by which the uses and conveniences of several cases are combined in one with com[)actness and economy of space, 20 the whole being very portable, light, and elegant in appearance, and combining in one case the following articles, namely, a pocket instrument case, a catheter case, an enema apparatus case, and a urinometer case, together with writing materials and a supply of medicaments and drugs (in certain definite quantities as above described) and other conveniences necessary for dispensing purposes, 25 thus comprising in a single portable case those clinical instruments which are necessary for the correct diagnosis of diseases and the remedies which are required for their relief or cure, together with such surgical instruments and appliances as are in common use for the dressing of wounds, and for various surgical operations. 30 The case (which may be constructed of metal, wood, or other suitable material) is made so as to open like a portable desk or despatch box, having two or more leaves connected by hinges. These leaves are divided by means of partitions or divisions into separate compartments or spaces of various forms and sizes adapted to contain the clinical and other instruments and 35 appliances above referred to, so that each is kept in its proper place, and when the case is opened the whole is exposed to view. That leaf or part of the case which is to contain the glass tubes of medicaments and drugs herein¬ before mentioned is provided with semi-cylindrical grooves in which the tubes lie snugly each in its own groove. The case (if of wood or other similar
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