Specification of Alfred Vincent Newton : chest expander and uterine or abdominal supporter.

  • Alfred Vincent Newton
Date:
1853
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Alfred Vincent Newton : chest expander and uterine or abdominal supporter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Newtons Improved Chest Expander $ Uterine or Abdominal Supporter. ward direction in the line of the patient’s spine. This bar is jointed by means of a pivot to a similar bar, forming part of an elastic frame, composed of a strip of steel, which passes round the body immediately above the hip, and terminates about opposite the centre of the iliac region, either by two pads, or in a plate which bears against the body. 5 These frames are made so that they shall pass round the body, and only press upon it where pads are provided to intercept the pressure. These pads are placed at the terminations of the frames as already noted, and also at opposite sides of the spinal column. The central bar composed of two parts, as already stated, while permitting of no Ion- 10 gitudinal extension while the apparatus in in use, will allow of a slight forward and backward play, and by its joint will offer no resistance to the lateral motion of the body. If thought desirable, straps may be passed over the shoulders from the pads at the back of the upper frame to the pads which form the terminals of that frame, but this is not 1 ■> assential for keeping the apparatus in place. LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty. 1853.