Specification of William Darlow : trusses, splints, &c.

  • Darlow, William.
Date:
1874
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Credit: Specification of William Darlow : trusses, splints, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Darlow's Improvements in Trusses, Splints, fyc. administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Darlow, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully 5 might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “ Improvements in Trusses, Splints, and other Surgical Appliances Employed for Affording Support to the Human Body or Limbs/’ upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Darlow, 10 my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately 15 after the date of the said Letters Patent, NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Darlow,do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, to be as follows :—- 20 This Invention relates to the application of magnetism pure and simple to or in magnetizing the metallic parts of every description of hernial and other trusses and other surgical supports and appliances in which there is or may be inserted steel or other magnetizable material or metal employed in the construction of such trusses, supports, or appliances, 25 in order to impart curative or healing properties thereto by magneti¬ zation, * ■ * • ♦- The application of my Invention to a truss or other surgical support or appliance does not depend upon or relate to its form or construction so long as it can be magnetized, and by such action bring to bear the healing 30 curative properties of such magnetism on the hernial, umbilical, or other rupture. Also in bringing magnetic properties to bear on the dorsal region and abdominal plexus for the cure of incipient rupture, or for reducing obstinate forms of hernia, and at the same time imparting strength to 35 the organs surrounding this part of the system. Also by acting on the abdomen most benefically when the patient suffers from great bowel weakness or where low spinal weakness exists,