Specification of William Edward Gedge : syringe for subcutaneous extractions and injections.

  • Gedge, William Edward.
Date:
1870
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of William Edward Gedge : syringe for subcutaneous extractions and injections. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Provisional Specification. A.D. 1870.—N° 640. ' 3 __ Gedge's Improved Syringe. being at the end of its stroke it is only necessary to give it a slight turn to place the projection in the notch and form a stop, as shewn, Kgs. 4 and 5, or the rod may be fixed by any suitable device. The suction then takes place simply under the influence of atmospheric pressure, 5 whether it be for the introduction into the pump barrel of a subcutaneous liquid or of a medicinal liquid to be injected. These various operations may be effected without withdrawing the trocar from the wound, and consequently without inflicting this pain, an important result considering that hitherto the removal of the trocar 10 was imperative, if not at at each operation, at least at each part of the operation. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said William Edward Gedge in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 1st September 1870. 15 TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, William Edward Gedge, of the Eirm of John Gedge and Son, of No. 11, Wellington Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her 20 Letters Patent, bearing date the Eourth day of March, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said William Edward Gedge, Her special licence that I, the said William Edward Gedge, my executors, administrators, and 25 assigns, or such others as I, the said William Edward Gedge, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 30 Ireland, the Channel'Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “An Improved Apparatus for Subcutaneous Extractions and Injections,” a com¬ munication to me from abroad by Georges Dieulafoy, of 39, Eaubourg St. Martin, Paris, Erance, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Edward Gedge, my executors or administrators, by an