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Specification of Charles Daniel Hammond : curative apparatus. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Specification of Charles Daniel Hammond : curative apparatus.
- Hammond, Charles Daniel.
- Date:
- 1864
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Description
Patent for an "apparatus consisting of a series of ... electric plates... it is worn on the penis, which it encircles, and exerts an elastic pressure thereon". This is supposed to cure spermatorrhoea and male impotence ("genital weakness and debility").
Publication/Creation
London : Great Seal Patent Office, 1864 (London : George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode)
Physical description
4 pages, 1 folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm
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Notes
Cover title.
At head of title: A.D. 1863, 20th August. No. 2073.
"Charles Daniel Hammond, of Charlotte Street, Bedford Square, in the county of Middlesex, doctor of medicine".
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Location Status Access Closed storesPat. vol. 30Location Access Closed storesPat. vol. 30:14Note