Specification of Anthony Yeldall : magnetic belt.

  • Yeldall, Anthony.
Date:
1856
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Anthony Yeldall : magnetic belt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Yeldall's Acromatic Belt. admors, or assigns, or any of them, should in their discretion seem meet, and that I, the said Anthony Yeldall, my executors, admors, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time to time coming, growing, and arising, by reason of the said Invention, during the term of years therein mentioned; to have, 5 hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers, privileges, and advantages therein-before granted or mentioned to be granted unto me, the said Anthony Yeldall, my exors, admors, and assigns, for and during and unto the full end and term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be complete and ended according to the 10 Statute in such case made and provided ; in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Anthony Yeldall, by an instru¬ ment in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty s High Court of Chancery within 15 one calendar month next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear. NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said Anthony Yeldall, do hereby declare that my said Invention of an acromatic 20 belt is described in manner following :— This belt is a metallic and chymical composition, acroamatically prepared, for the purpose of emitting as much magnetic effluvia as it is possible that any composition (not a concentrated magnet) is capable of. This composition is very little attractive, like unto common magnets, but is as much as possible 25 deprived of that power, so that it may have its directive influence increased. It is coated with the rust of iron pulverised, in order to preserve its efficacy, which coating should be carefully preserved unbroken. When the belt is taken out of the paper it must be put on the place it is intended to be worn, which should be over the loins and next the skin, the middle of the belt being SO placed behind; the tape may be pinned or sewed so as to secure it to the part where it may be worn for any length of time, but it will greatly add to the strength of the belt if it be taken off about one day before and kept until one day after the full of the moon, placing it when off in the same manner in the paper as when it came. Many people have two belts, applying 35 one constantly to the back, and applying the points of the other belt to different parts of the body that are most afflicted, wearing it for an hour or so, and applying it to another part, or laying it by in the paper as before