Specification of Alfred Ford : fomenting pad.

  • Ford, Alfred.
Date:
1870
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Alfred Ford : fomenting pad. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Fomenting Pad. (This Invention received Provisional Protection only.) PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Alfred Ford at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 14th June 1870. I, Alfred Ford, of No. 21, Elgin Crescent, in the Coy. of Mid- 5 dlesex. Surgeon, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “ An Improved Method of Applying. Moisture and Heat, Medicated or otherwise, to the Animal Frame,” to be as follows :— The object of this Invention is to provide an ever ready epithem or fomenting pad, which, while it will enable surgeons and nurses to dis^ 10 pense with the clumsy appliance of bread, linseed meal, and such like materials, as poultices, in applying heat and moisture to the animal frame, will effectually retain that moisture, and prevent the conduction of that heat into the atmosphere, which are designed to be applied as therapeutic agents, and which epithem being easily cleansed may be 15 repeatedly applied. With this view I take sponge, torn or otherwise reduced into shreds or small pieces, and by enclosing the same in a linen, or cotton, or other suitable textile fabric case, I form a small pillow, mattress, or pad, and by passing a few stitches through the same prevent the shifting of its