Improvements in or connected with brushes or other appliances for the curative application of electricity / [Charlton James Wollaston].

  • Wollaston, Charlton James.
Date:
1894
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Credit: Improvements in or connected with brushes or other appliances for the curative application of electricity / [Charlton James Wollaston]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    n° 12,52a A.T>. 1803 Date of Application, 26th June, 1893 Complete Specification Left]f 26lh Apr., 1894—Accepted, 25th May, 1894 PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION. Improve ments in or connectei with Brushes or other Appliances for the Curative Application of Electricity. I, Charlton James Wollaston of 31 Notting Hill Terrace in the County of London, Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :— The object of my invention is to provide brushes or other appliances by means 5 of which electricity can be conveniently and efficiently applied to the curing or alleviation of affections of the nerves or muscles. According to my invention I provide wires or other conductors of electricity which are so arranged in a suitable support holder or backing that the ends or portions of the length thereof can be brought into contact with the body. 10 The said wires or conductors are respectively connected to the respective poles of an electric battery or magneto electric machine or other generator of electricity so that when the ends or portions of the said wires or conductors are brought into contact with the body the circuit of the generator is completed and an electric current or electric currents passes or pass through the part of the body included 15 between the wires or conductors of opposite polarity. The wires or conductors may constitute the equivalents of the bristles or of some of the bristles of a brush (either an ordinary or a rotary brush) or they may be held in any suitable backing such for instance as a backing of fabric with their ends or portions of their lengths exposed so that when the device is applied to any part of the body which it is 20 required to treat, the passage of electricity through that part of the body is effected. The battery or generator from which the electricity is derived may be contained in any suitable part of the device or the current may be conducted by any suitable arrangement of leads from the said battery or generator to the said device. 25 The battery or generator may for example be contained in a cavity in the back or handle of a hand brush or in the body or handle of a rotary brush. The wires or conductors when used in the place of the bristles of a brush may be so protected by a fabric or covering that the sides of the wires or conductors will not come in contact and so short circuit the current as to prevent its beneficial action by passing 30 through parts of the body as aforesaid. When the invention is applied as a rotary brush the rotary motion of the brush may be used to generate the necessary current in an electro-magnetic or equivalent generator. The devices may be provided with means whereby the circuits for the currents can be completed and interrupted and regulated as required or with means whereby the current can be 35 made intermittent such as any suitable forms of switches, current regulators or make and break appliances. Dated this 26th day of June 1893. J. H. JOHNSON & Co., 47, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, Agents. [ Price 8J.]
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