Improvements in mixtures or curatives applicable for the destruction of the baccillior microbes of consumption and other diseases or virulent ailments, and in apparatus for producing and applying said curatives / [William Henry Davies].

  • Davies, William Henry.
Date:
1889
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Credit: Improvements in mixtures or curatives applicable for the destruction of the baccillior microbes of consumption and other diseases or virulent ailments, and in apparatus for producing and applying said curatives / [William Henry Davies]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Date of Application, 7th Mar., 1818 Complete Specification Left, 8th Nov., 1888 Complete Specification Accepted, 14th Dec., 1888 A.D. 1888, 7th March. N° 3511 PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION. Improvements in Mixtures or Curatives Applicable for the Destruc¬ tion of the Baccilli or Microbes of Consumption and other Diseases or Virulent Ailments, and in Apparatus for Producing* and Applying said Curatives. We, William Henry Davies, of 42, Irvine Street, Liverpool, Pianoforte manu¬ facturer, and George Brighouse, Rose Cottage, Dryden Road, Liverpool, Gentleman, both in the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature ot this invention to be as follows :— 5 As a result of many years experimenting we have discovered that the combined use of phenol (or to a certain extent other members of the same chemical series) and ozone destroys the baccillus of consumption or phthisis and also other baccilli such as those of snake-bite and some zymotic diseases and blood poisoning. To apply this curative, however, to the best advantage the ozone and phenol ought 10 to be mixed in definite proportions and this is an exceedingly difficult thing to do in a sick room, as the one is a liquid or vapour, and the other a pure gas. Our invention therefore is 1st.—For the actual compound or mixture. 2nd. lor a method of making and combining the same and 3rd.—The apparatus therefor. In carrving out our invention we condense the oxygen to the greatest practical 1$ extent in tubes. The phenol or other member of the series is preferably placed in a vessel having an exit orifice surrounding the exit orifice ot the gas. Either through the oxygen tube itself or through a second chamber added to the tube between it and the orifice we fix two electrodes and cause an electric spark or current of high tensional electricity to pass between the two electrodes through the oxygen. By this means the 20 oxygen is in part converted into ozone as it slowly passes the line ot march of the electricity. When the mixture or compound has to be sprayed into the room, the two cocks one from the phenol receptacle, the other from the ozone reservoir are turned [ Price 8<i-j