Specification of Henry Holmes : pneumatic bath, &c.

  • Holmes, Henry.
Date:
1855
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    Pneumatic Bath, &c. (This Invention did not proceed to the Great Seal.) PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry Holmes at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 16th April [ 1855. I, Henry Holmes, of Clifton Road, Maida Vale, in the County of 5 Middlesex, Doctor of Medicine and Surgeon, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “ Certain Processes oe Treating the Human Body by Gases, Vapors, & Electricity, & for certain Apparatus for Obtaining & Applying the said Gases, Vapors, and Electricity to the above or any other Purposes,” to be as follows (that is to say):— 10 My Invention consists, firstly, in the processes of treating the human body by partial and entire immersions in any gases or vapors possessing a medicinal or agreeable influence when imbibed through the pores of the skin, or other- vise, while the electrical condition of the body is, if necessary, suitably t modified. 15 And, secondly, in an apparatus to be called the pneumatic bath, in connec¬ tion with and by means of which the said gases, vapors, and electricity may be obtained, and subsequently applied to the above mentioned or to other