Specification of Edmund Adolphus Kirby : portable medicine case, &c.

  • Kirby, Edmund Adolphus.
Date:
1867
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Edmund Adolphus Kirby : portable medicine case, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A.D. 1867.—N° 372. Provisional Specilication. Kirby s Improved Portable Medicine Case, <$c. elegant in appearance, and combining in one case the following articles, namely, a pocket instrument case, a catheter case, an enema apparatus case, and a urinometer case, together with writing materials and a supply of medicaments and drugs (in certain definite quantities), and other conveniences necessary for dispensing purposes. The case (which may be constructed of metal, wood, or other suitable material) is made so as to open like a portable desk or despatch box having two or more leaves connected by hinges; these leaves are divided by means of partitions or divisions into separate compartments or spaces of various forms and sizes, adapted to contain the clinical and other instruments and appliances above referred to, so that each is kept in its pioper place, and when the case is opened the whole is exposed to view. That leaf or part of the case which is to contain the glass tubes of medicaments and drugs herein¬ after mentioned is provided with semi-cylindrical grooves in which the tubes lie snugly each in its own groove. The case (if of wood or other similar material) may be covered with morocco or other leather, and the whole or parts lined with velvet, plush, or other soft material as a precautionary measure against breakage, and to prevent the contents from rattling whilst being carried. Secondly, the novelty of the Invention consists in the construction and 20 arrangement of a contrivance which enables medical men and others to possess in a single portable case those clinical instruments which are necessary for the correct diagnosis of disease, and the remedies which are required for their relief and cure, together with such surgical instruments and appliances as are in common use for the dressing of wounds and for various surgical operations, 25 thus furnishing the medical man with the means of administering relief at once without the delay attending the usual mode of dispensing, the whole being comprised within the size of and combining the uses of an ordinary writing desk or despatch box. LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. 1867.
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