Specification of George Harman Barth : apparatus for administering gases for curative purposes.

  • Barth, George Harman.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Specification of George Harman Barth : apparatus for administering gases for curative purposes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A.D. 1854 N° 641. Apparatus for Administering Gases for Curative Purposes. LETTERS PATENT to George Harman Barth, of 4, Mornington Crescent, Hampstead Road, in the County of Middlesex, Medical Galvanist, for the Invention of “ Improvements in the Mode op Supplying and Administering Gases foe the Alleviation and Cure of certain Diseases.” I Sealed tlie 12th September 1854, and dated the 17th March 1854. PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Harman Barth at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 17th March 1854. I, George Harman Barth, of 4, Mornington Crescent,' Hampstead Road 9 5 in the County of Middlesex, Medical Galvanist, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “Improvements in the Mode of Supplying and Administering Gases eor the Alleviation and Cure of certain Diseases” to be as follows:— This Invention relates to a mode of supplying oxygen, protoxide of nitrogen, 10 and other gases diluted with air for the treatment of certain diseases, and to the apparatus or instruments for effecting the same. One mode of effecting this object is by employing a portable gasometer, having a core or solid cylinder inside, for the purpose of dispensing the atmospheric air previous to filling the gasometer for use. A scale is fitted to the gasometer for measuring the 15 contents of the same, and suitable stop cocks applied for regulating the supplying of the gasometer with gas, and also the passage of the gas therefrom to the inhaling tube. The inhaling tube consists of a flexible pipe fitted with
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