Specification of John Lewis Prichard : relieving pain in the human body.

  • Prichard, John Lewis.
Date:
1860
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Credit: Specification of John Lewis Prichard : relieving pain in the human body. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    0 10 15 20 Specification. A.D. 1859.—N° 2449. 3 Pritchard's Method of Relieving Pain in the Human Pody. suitable to the treatment of the complaint, said drugs being thrown into tbe blood, or applied to the parts affected by means of a battery or batteries, and insulated wire placed in such a form as to aid the uniformity of the current, by which means the fluid is applied in one continuous current. The several methods of application and quantities being determined by the practitioner, according to the nature of the complaint, and the part where such complaint is seated. Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention of “ A New' Method of Relieving Pain in the Human Body,’* together with the manner in wrhich the same is to be performed, I would remark, in conclusion, that I do not confine or restrict myself to any particular drug, as many alleviative drugs may be used with the same success, according to the nature of the complaint; but what I claim as my Invention, intended to be secured to me by the herein in part recited Letters Patent is the application or throwing into the blood alleviative drugs by the means and in the manner herein described, and for the purposes set forth. In witness whereof, I, the said John Lewis Prichard, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty. JOHN LEWIS PRICHARD, (l.s.) Witness, Thomas Morgan, Shoe Warehouse, High St., Dowlais. LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. 1860.