Specification of Edmund Adolphus Kirby : dispensing medicines.

  • Kirby, Edmund Adolphus.
Date:
1868
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Edmund Adolphus Kirby : dispensing medicines. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Kirbys Improved System of Dispensing Medicines, such surgical instruments and appliances as are in common use for the dressing of wounds, and for various surgical operations. Ihe case (which may be constructed of metal, wood, or other suitable material) is made so as to open like a portable desk or despatch box, having 5 two or more leaves connected by hinges; these leaves are divided by means of partitions or divisions into separate compartments or spaces of various forms and sizes, adapted to contain the clinical and other instruments and appliances above referred to, so that each is kept in its proper place, and when the case is opened the whole is exposed to view. That leaf or part 10 of the case which is to contain the glass tubes of medicaments and drugs herein-before mentioned is provided with semi-cylindrical grooves in which the tubes lie snugly each in its own ^oove. The case (if of wood or other similar material) may be covered with morocco or other leather, and the whole or parts lined with velvet, plush, or other soft material, as a precau- 15 tionary measure against breakage and to prevent the contents from rattling whilst being carried. It will be evident that the case may (if preferred) be made in the form of a travelling bag, as herein-after described. In order that the construction and arrangement of my improved miniature dispensary and instrument case may be distinctly understood I have annexed 20 hereunto a Sheet of Drawings illustrative thereof, and have marked the same with figures and letters of reference corresponding with those in the followino* explanation thereof. Figure 1 represents the miniature dispensary and instrument case closed, and Figure 2 shows the same open as a desk only, the upper part a, a, forming 25 a slope for writing upon; Figure 3 shows the leaf b, b, open, and the drawer c, c, pulled partly out so as to expose the clinical and surgical instruments, and Figure 4 is a view with the lid of the part a, a, opened and the leaf d, d, thrown back, so as to give access to the whole of the medicaments or com¬ pounds both in the lid a, a, and the body of the case e, e. Figures 5 and 6 30 show two views of the same when arranged in the form of a bag, Fio-ure 5 representing the bag as closed, and Figure 6 showing the same open. The bag is made with a square opening, and has several pockets both inside and for containing the various clinical and other instruments, tofrether with lint, oil silk, &c. The tubes containing the drugs are supported in loops or 35 tucks attached to both sides of the central division or diaphragm/,/; this central division or diaphragm is so arranged and constructed that it can be removed from the bag, and will stand on a table for convenience of access to the drugs. It will of course be evident that the details of arrangement, both of the bag