A new or improved mode for using medicated preparations for the benefit of patients / [William Heath].

  • Heath, William
Date:
1895
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Credit: A new or improved mode for using medicated preparations for the benefit of patients / [William Heath]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Date of Application, 8th Nov., 1895—Accepted, 14th Dec., 1895 COMPLETE SPECIFICATION. A New or Improved Mode of Using Medicated Preparations for tlie Benefit of Patients. We, William Heath, of Bromsgrove Road, Redditch, in the County of Worcester, Inventor, and Frederick Augustus Hill, of Northfield, near Birmingham, also in the County of Worcester, Brick Maker do hereby declare the nature of our said invention and in what manner the same is to be 5 performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:— Our invention has for its object a new or improved mode of using medicated preparations for the benefit of patients and for the purpose of assisting them to conveniently inhale the results of the combustion of such preparations, 8c which 10 though exceedingly simple we prefer to explain by means of the sheet of drawings annexed hereto. In carrying our invention into effect we take any quantity of paper made from pure straw or any equivalent substance and thoroughly saturate the same with the essence of various herbs or other medicinal compounds so that the paper or other 15 substance is thoroughly impregnated therewith. We then allow these sheets of paper or other substance to dry in a very slow and natural manner. We then cover both surfaces of the sheets with various herbal or other medicinal compounds in a powdered state and which is made to adhere to the surface of the paper by any suitable means such as paste or any other suitable adhesive matter which is also 20 allowed to dry on the surface. We then cut the sheets into strips of any convenient size to pack into suitable boxes or parcels. Figure 1., of the annexed drawings illustrates a convenient sized strip A, which size would enable a dozen such strips to be packed in a flat box. Figure 2., shows the strip A bent into one of the most convenient forms for 25 lighting both edges a1 and a2 at once. Figure 3., shows the bent strip A placed upon a plate or other suitable uninflamable article B, and with the edges a1 and a2 smouldering away. In using these strips, one is taken and bent double as seen at Figure 2 so that both ends come together. When both the ends are ignited. The strip A is then 30 bent in preferably an angular form and placed upon a plate or other suitable uninflamable article B as seen at Figure 3 and the strip smoulders away (it will not blaze) thus fumigating any room in which it may be placed where the patient or patients may be ; or the patient may inhale the products of combustion while the strip is smouldering by simply holding his or her mouth over the strip. 35 By this means the products and medicinal properties of herbs or other substances may be transmitted to patients by inhalation in this very simple manner and according to the herbs used the remedy is beneficial to various lung diseases such for instance as asthma, bronchitis, influenza, whooping cough and ail kinds of afflictions of the breath and lungs. 40 It will be evident that the strips may be bent otherwise than the V-=*hape as shown by Figures 2 and 3 ; for instance, if bent to a curve it answers the same purpose, but it is advisable to ignite both ends at the same time so that they may continue to burn until they meet and the whole strip is consumed. It will also be evident that instead of the V*shaped piece it may be made into a 45 coil aud one end only ignited. In this case the combustion would be slower but [Price 8<f.]