Application of magneto-electricity, &c. to baths : letters patent to Geminiano Zanni, of Highbury, in the county of Middlesex, medical electrician, for the invention of "Improvements relating to the application of magneto-electricity to swimming and other baths for curative and anaesthetic purposes" : Sealed the 27th April 1877, and dated the 1st November 1876.

  • Zanni, Geminiano
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1876
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Credit: Application of magneto-electricity, &c. to baths : letters patent to Geminiano Zanni, of Highbury, in the county of Middlesex, medical electrician, for the invention of "Improvements relating to the application of magneto-electricity to swimming and other baths for curative and anaesthetic purposes" : Sealed the 27th April 1877, and dated the 1st November 1876. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A.D. 1876, 1st November. N° 4222. Application of Magneto-electricity, &c. to Baths. LETTERS PATENT to Geminiano Zanni, of Highbury, in the County of Middle¬ sex, Medical Electrician, for the Invention of “ Improvements relating to the Application of Magneto-electrtcity, or Magnetism, or Natural Electricity to Swimming and other Baths for Curative and Anaes¬ thetic Purposes/' Sealed the 27th April 1S77, and dated the 1st November 1876. PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Geminiano Zanni at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 1st November 1876. Geminiano Zanni, of Highbury, in the County of Middlesex, Medical Electrician. “Improvements relating to the Application of Magneto-electricity, or 5 Magnetism, or Natural Electricity to Swimming and other Baths for Curative and Anaesthetic Purposes/’ My said Invention is designed to provide an efficient curative and anaesthetic agent which may be administered without any costly or complicated appliances, and which will act agreeably and without any shock to the system of the patients. 10 The said Invention is carried into practice by the employment of magneto¬ electricity in combination with baths of any kind. These baths differ from those known as galvanic or voltaic baths in having no galvanic or voltaic battery, and using only natural electricity, and in having the poles arranged to pass the magneto- electric current through the earth and hydrostatic resistance, thereby distributing 15 the magneto-electricity uniformly through all parts of the patient’s body. When my Invention is applied to an ordinary domestic or similar bath, the bath should be constructed of porous porcelain provided with suitable connections for the conducting wires, one of which is extended to a magneto-electric apparatus, and the other to the earth. 20 The apparatus I prefer to use is that described in the Specification of former Letters Patent granted to me, and bearing date the 29th day of October, AD. 1858, No. 2419. This apparatus is kept in action by a spring or weight while the magneto-electric bath is being administered; it is arranged in combination with a graduated hydrostatic electrometer, and produces a constant magneto-electric current, 25 which is regulated according to the nature of the disease or the result sought to be obtained. [Price Od]