J.L. Pulvermacher's patent portable hydro-electric voltaic chains : Sold by J. Steinert, sole agent, no. 568 Broadway, New York.

  • Pulvermacher, J. L.
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[1853]
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Credit: J.L. Pulvermacher's patent portable hydro-electric voltaic chains : Sold by J. Steinert, sole agent, no. 568 Broadway, New York. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    purposes, of being more portable, more readily available, and more economical in its use, than the Electro-Galvanic instruments at present employed.' Extract from the * New York Medical Times/' Vol. L, No. 12, of September, 1852. We are glad to learn, that we are about to have introduced into our country the Portable Hydro- Electric Voltaic Chain, invented by Dr. Pulvermacher, the virtues of which have been so well tested in England for several months past, and which comes to us with such high testimonials in its favor. It is a modification of the Voltaic pile, giving us all the effects of Gaivanism in a form much more convenient, and much more manageable, than the machines in ordinary use., and less apt to get out of order. It has the very desirable property of creating a continuous uninterrupted current of elec- tricity of moderate tension, and always in one direction. The inventor received the unanimous thanks of the French Academy of Medicine ; and the practica\ value of the instrument is attested by Drs. Golding Bird, Pereira. and many others of the first medical men in London. An agency is about to be establishment in this city, the particulars of which will b*e made known by means of circulars and advertisements, when the arrangements are completed for the requisite supply of the instruments. In the meantime, the merits of the article wili be tested at the hospitals and in private practice, as cases proper for its use may present themselves. [From the New York Reformer. 23d October, 1853. i Hints about Electricity.—At this season of the year, being productive of so many and various diseases, we can not but direct the attention of our readers to the Patent Hydro-electric Chains, in- troduced into our country by Mr. J. Steinert, 568 Broadway, being the very same chains which the Emperor of the I reach lately sent over to England in order to try their salutary effect in cases of Cholera, and similar diseases arising from a want of electricity in the atmosphere. We are not at all surprised to see by some of our English cotemporaries that the results of these experiments has been very satisfactory, and that the Hydro-Electric chain may become as a safeguard and as a grand specific against the great number of diseases resulting from the sudden changes in the electric state of the atmosphere. We have even heard it asserted by several well known physicians, that they have been worn with astonishing benefit in the Southern States during the late disastrous ravages of the yellow fever. It may be chance, but it is a fact, that of all persons who have worn them during the epidemic in New Orleans and other places, not a single one has fallen a victim to that scourge. We certainly incline to the opinion that their constant action on the skin and body neutralizes the hurt- ful effect of a miasmadic atmosphere ! At all events we think it worth while that the profession take the subject in hand and make it an object of serious investigation I [Extract from the Esculapian, May 1853.] PULVERMACHER-S HYDRO-ELECTRIC CHAINS. We have had one of these instruments for some time, and have made use of it in a number of cases, and thus far it has fully sustained the guarantee of Mr. Steinert, the agent for this country. In tooth- ache we have had occasion to apply it upon ourselves, and in less than a minute, the pain had entirely ceased, and has never troubled us since. In other cases it has operated equally well. There is no doubt but that this galvanic agent is to become a valuable auxiliary to other means in the treatment of disease. We hope for an opportunity to make use of it in some more serious disease, and if 'satisfactory, we shall be glad to award it all due merit. [Extract from Dispatch, May 22,1853.] At a meeting of the Philadelphia Franklin Institute last Friday night, Mr. Steinert, of New-York, introduced by Dr. Rand, delivered a short address in explanation of his Hydro-Electric Chains, to the satisfaction of all present. On the opposition of a member, that chains imported from London would not deflect the astatic needle, Mr. Steinert gave ocular demonstration to the effect, that a single link of the smallest chains, sold by him, makes the needle of the common Galvanometer swing right round in a circle, etc. etc. etc. Letter from Valentine Mott, M.D., L.L.D., Emeritus Professor of Surgery and Surgical Anatomy of the faculty of Medicine at New York, Honorary Fellow of King's and Queen's College, at Dublin (Ireland.) etc. New York, October^.2th, 1852. Mk. J. Steinebt : Dear Sir,—I have been muc^ pleased with the Hydro-Electric Chains of Pulvermacher, which you have been so polite as to furnish me. They are a very ingenious and beautiful arrangement of the galvanic principle, and I have no doubt will lead many medical practitioners to use this powerful agent from their neatness and convenience. They are so portable, and at the same time powerful, that many will resort to them, and indeed be amused by them, who would be alarmed at a more com- plicated apparatus. I think it may become an important remedial agent, and its efficacy may be greatly increased if used in the manner of galvano-puncture. You have my best wishes for its successful introduction. Yours very respectfully, V. MOTT. I have seen with much satisfaction the application of the Hydro-Electric Chain of Pulvermacher. The neatness of its construction, and the facility with which so important a therapeutic agent as the electric current can be administered, render this modification of jfcbe voltaic pile highly eligible and convenient.
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