Specification of Moses Poole : steam and other baths.

  • Poole, Moses.
Date:
1856
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Moses Poole : steam and other baths. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    _Poo^s Improvements in Steam Baths and other Baths. any desired temperature and force of douche baths which may be used separate fiom or conjointly with the steam bath as above described, and when to be used separately, the rain douche apparatus may be made portable in place of being fixed. And it will be evident that when required for particular 5 cases the water for the douche bath may be combined with vegetable, animal, or mineral matters, which, however, forms no part of the Invention ; and the direction of the douche pipes may be varied by screwing on other pipes, according as the patient requires to receive such baths in a sitting, standing, or reclining posture. 10 Having thus described the nature of the Invention, and the manner of performing the same, I would have it understood, that I do not confine myself to the precise details, provided the peculiar character of either of the improve* ments above described be retained. But what I claim is,— First, the mode of producing a steam bath by the application of steam 15 (generated under considerable pressure) within a room so arranged as to allow of a sufficient circulation of fresh atmospheric air, as above explained. Secondly, I claim the mode of combining the use of a high-pressure steam bath in a ventilated room with a rain douche or water bath, whereby the skin is prepared before and after a steam bath, as above explained. And, thirdly, I claim the mode of regulating the temperature of douche baths, whether rain or voluminous, as above explained. In witness whereof, I, the said ]\foses Poole, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Ihirteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-two. 2 5 MOSES (l.s.) POOLE. AND EE IT BEMEMBEBED, that on the Thirteenth day of Junuary, in the year of our Lord 1842, the aforesaid Moses Poole came before our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form 30 above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose. Inrolled the Thirteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-two. LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. 1856. Brougham.
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