Specification of Philip William Seymour : magnetic therapeutic plasters.

  • Seymour, Philip William.
Date:
1873
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Credit: Specification of Philip William Seymour : magnetic therapeutic plasters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Provisional Seymour's Improvements in Magnetic Therapeutic Plasters. adhesive materials may be employed in lieu thereof. Over this layer of magnetic composition I lay another thin sheet of fabric, and this I cause to adhere thereto by the application of gentle heat and pressure. Or tissue or other thin paper may be used in lieu thereof so that by applying a slight amount of heat thereto the plaster will be 5 rendered adhesive and will readily adhere to the body by reason of the adhesive composition permeating through the covering of paper or other thin material employed. The object of employing this layer of fabric is to prevent oxidation of the metallic particles, and also to avoid any deleterious effects which might otherwise arise from the metallic 10 elements being brought into immediate contact with the body. Or, instead of employing a woven fabric for this purpose a thin coating of simple adhesive material, such as is used in ordinary adhesive plasters may be employed. Another mode of forming these plasters is by employing strips or 15 pieces of iron or steel magnetized, in lieu of the iron or steel filings, as previously described, this latter form I prefer to employ when a more powerful appliance is required. In some cases instead of using the composition as above explained it may be preferable to spread a layer of adhesive material on to the 2D woven or other fabric used as a backing or base, and afterwards the steel or iron filings may be applied in a layer and. pressed thereon, after which a thin coating of the adhesive material may be employed to act as a protecting material, and also as a means of causing the magnetic plaster to adhere to the body. In all cases I prefer to magnetize the 25 metallic ingredients after they are applied to the backing or base, and the means employed for magnetizing the same in no way differ from those heretofore employed for similar purposes. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said Philip William Seymour in the Great Seal Patent 30 Office on the 29th May 1873. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PEESENTS SHALL COME, I, Philip W illiam Seymour, of Surrey Lane, Battersea, in the County of Surrey, send greeting.