Specification of William Hibbert : medicinal compounds.

  • Hibbert, William.
Date:
1866
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    Hibbert's Improvements in Medicinal Compounds. chloride of zinc. For human beings ten to twenty drops in a wine glass of pure water will be a sufficient dose for an adult, to be repeated as the case may require. For cattle one to two ounces of the solution, with from five to ten per cent, of chloride of zinc added may be given in a pint of water, or as 5 much water as the beast will drink; but these proportions may be varied according to the virulence of the disease. For outward application, as baths or embrocations, the said solution may be freely applied ; also painless bandages which do not stick to the skin when taken off are obtained by impregnating cloth with the above solution. By increasing 10 the chloride of zinc to from ten to twenty per cent, it may also be freely used as a disinfectant for hospitals, barracks, holds of ships, railway trucks, or similar places. I also use chlorides of magnesium and bromine for preserving animal matters for shipment as food, the strength to be about 160° Tw add el I.: The mechanical apparatus consists of auxiliary lung respirators, which I 15 make of any suitable material, and of any suitable conformation to suit cattle or human beings. On the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, Fig. 1 is an -elevation, and Fig. 2 a sectional plan of one of my auxiliary lung respirators > * « for cattle. In the muzzle or pad a for the mouth I punch two or more holes sufficiently large to ensure easy breathing. To the holes I attach tubes b9 c, 20 and valves d, e} with coupling tubes /, g, for attaching thereto tubing of any required length; the valve d is arranged to open inwards towards the mouth, the other to open outwards from the mouth, the air supply valve d being opened by inhalation and closed by respiration; the outlet valve e is opened by respi ration and closed by inhalation, and a bag or receiver may be fastened under 25 the end of the muzzle to receive the saliva, which is removed through an outlet in the bag. Tubes of any required length are coupled to the coupling tubes /, g, by which the pure air may be supplied from any distance direct to and the respired air conveyed direct from the respiratory organs, and carried off any distance from patient or hospital. 50 One arrangement of my improved disinfecting filters for cattle is shewn in Fig. 3 ; it is attached to a reserve chamber from which the respiratory organs are supplied with disinfected air, and consists of a box h sufficiently large to supply one or more subjects, in which box is inserted a number of tubes i, which conduct the air through the disinfecting solution Jc9 after which it rises 35 through a sieve or perforated plate l9 and through charcoal, coke, or other material saturated with the same solution, and passes into the reserve chamber m, having tubes and nozzles n from which the cattle inhale the disinfected air. I also employ, when desired, another filter of similar construction to the above for disinfecting the exhaled air before it passes into the atmosphere.