Portable magnetic appliances : letters patent to Thomas Welton, of 13 Grafton Street West, Fitzroy Square, London, in the county of Middlesex, maker of artifcial limbs, for the invention of "Improvements in portable magnetic appliances, in conjunction with medicinal substances for the cure of diseases " : Sealed the 1st July 1879, and dated the 28th April 1879.

  • Thomas Welton
Date:
1879
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Credit: Portable magnetic appliances : letters patent to Thomas Welton, of 13 Grafton Street West, Fitzroy Square, London, in the county of Middlesex, maker of artifcial limbs, for the invention of "Improvements in portable magnetic appliances, in conjunction with medicinal substances for the cure of diseases " : Sealed the 1st July 1879, and dated the 28th April 1879. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    5 10 15 20 ^v/vwww A.D. 1879, 28tk April. N° 1668. Portable Magnetic Appliances. LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Welton, of 13, Grafton Street West, Fitzroy Square, London, in the County of Middlesex, Maker of Artificial Limbs, for the Invention of “ Improvements in Portable Magnetic Appliances, in Conjunction with Medicinal Substances for the Cure of Diseases.” Sealed the 1st July 1879, and dated the 28th April 1879. % PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Welton at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 28th April 1879. Thomas Welton, of 13, Grafton Street West, Fitzroy Square, London, in the County of Middlesex, Maker of Artificial Limbs. “ Improvements in Portable Magnetic Appliances, in Conjunction with Medicinal Substances for the Cure of Diseases.” My Invention has for its object the union or adaptation of portable magnets in conjunction with medicinal substances to the various parts and all parts of the human body, for the alleviation and cure of diseases; for this purpose I use small horseshoe magnets, or thin plates or bars of steel perforated or otherwise, or woven steel wire, or woven wire cloth, commonly called scratch cloth, or steel filings imbedded in or covered by any suitable medicinal substance, or laid on cloth, leather, or any pliant material, and varnished or covered by the appropriate medicinal substance for the above named purpose, which may be then or before magnetised by any of the well known processes, and covered by any pliant material such as leather, cloth, woollen mixtures, cotton wool, silk, or other pliant material, previously steeped in or saturated by a spirituous tincture or aqueous solution or decoction of the medicinal substance required for the cure of such complaint, so that by the action of the magnet or magnets, as before described, in compliance with the substance, tincture, or aqueous solution, a far greater and more therapeutic effect is produced. I claim also to affix by any suitable means the magnet or magnets to the cloth or pliant material (viz*., by sowing, or rivetting, or cementing), and form of the said magnets and medicinal substances, combined respirators, lockets, bracelets, armlets, [Price 4d,]