Specification of Adolphe Marie Albin Laforgue : applying medicinal powders.

  • Laforgue, Adolphe Marie Albin.
Date:
1869
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Credit: Specification of Adolphe Marie Albin Laforgue : applying medicinal powders. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Laforgue's Method of Applying Medicinal JPowders. administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Adolphe Marie Alhin Laforgue, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter dining the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might 5 make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “ A New Apparatus for Introducing Powders into Natural or Patho¬ logical Cavities in the Human Body,” upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Adolphe Marie Alhin Laforgue, my executors or adminis- 10 trators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters 15 Patent. NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Adolphe Marie Albin Laforgue, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the 20 Drawing hereto annexed and to the figures and letters marked thereon, that is to sav :— My Invention consists in the construction of an apparatus for the application of powders to any part of a natural or pathological cavity of the human bodv. 25 The apparatus consists of a handle made of cardboard, metal, india- rubber, or other suitable material. It is made hollow or solid, rigid or flexible, varying in size and length, and having at its upper extremity a bag made of goldbeater’s skin, of a textile material, of india-ruber, or other thin flexible material, which bag is made by preference of a 30 cylindro-conical form, and I construct it of two valves separated by a plane or diaphragm passing through the axis. I connect the two valves by a seam made with two fine wires or threads joining at the top. The two parts or valves of the hag are each furnished with a strap or cord suitably fixed to the top of the said valve, the lower part of the hag 35 being fixed to the handle. The extremities of the straps and of the wires are attached to another wire or cord passing into the interior of the