Means for producing physiological and medicinal effects upon men, animals, and plants, applicable also for accelerating the crystallization of substances and the maturing of wine.
- Boult, Alfred J.
- Date:
- 1891
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Means for producing physiological and medicinal effects upon men, animals, and plants, applicable also for accelerating the crystallization of substances and the maturing of wine. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![N° 15,613 A.D. 1891 5 15 Date of Application, fbth Sept., 1891—Accepted, 16th Jin., 1892 COMPLETE SPECIFICATION. Means for Producing1 Physiological and Medicinal Effects upon Men, Animals, and Plants, applicable also for Accelerating the Crystallization of Substances and the Maturing of Wine. A communication from Oskar Korschelt, of 70, Siidstrasse, Leipzig, Saxony, German Empire, Chemist. I, Alfred Julius Boult of 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex, M.I.M.E., do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :— The invention described by the following concerns a new process or method and apparatus for making profit of the vs vira of the ether. The electro-dynamical theory of William Weber about the nature of the smallest particles leads to the result that the ether being identical with the electrical particles of Weber rotates around all solid bodies within a certain distance from them, this being effected 19 by the attraction of the free positive ether-particles from the part of the negative ether-particles in the molecules of the solid bodies. By a corresponding arrange¬ ment of suitable solid bodies it cannot but be possible to condense and to direct the ether moving irregularly. Such arrangements are made in the apparatus to be described. These apparatus are constructed after the same principles and their effects are almost the same ; they may all be emploved for purposes when an augmentation of the vis viva of the ether is intended. The distinction of these apparatus after their especial application is only a practical one and caused by the form of the objects to be acted upon. In order to increase the effect of the apparatus, an electric current may be led through them. As an electric current consists of free positive and negative ether-particles which tend to unite themselves, the number of free negative ether- particles in the wires of the apparatus is enlarged together with the diameter of the ether-whirl and the number of the positive ether-particles flung away by 25 the apparatus. In the accompanying drawings Figs. 1—3 show an apparatus used to influence upon the vegetation of plants, Fig. 3 is a link of the column. Figs. 4—5 show a tube used to accelerate the maturity of spirituous beverages. 30 Fig. 6 is an apparatus used to accelerate crystallization. Figs. 7—12 show discs for medicinal purposes and its application upon men. In all these apparatus there are wires bent to spirals or in other manner which induce the ether-particles entering into the sphere of attraction of the wires to rotate round them and to accumulate on certain points, a certain quantity of 35 vis viva being thus deposited on these points. The simplest case is represented by Fig. 6, a wdre being wound on a cylinder or truncated cone. A body in the interior of the spiral is surrounded by the ether- whirls wdiich rotate around the wires and moreover penetrated in straight line by the ether-particles flung away by the wrhirls. It is easily to be seen that this will 40 take place more frequently towards the interior of the spiral than outward and most frequently when the pitch of the spiral is smaller than the diameter of the sphere of activity of the wdres. The end planes of the cylinder may also be provided writh spiral wdres, the object to be acted upon being then surrounded by spiral wires from all sides. By such an arrangement the crystallization of salts for instance may considerably be accelerated. The crystallizing in this case does not begin from the inner side [Prir* 6<L] 20 45](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30759365_0001.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
