Specification of George Kershaw : medico-electric surfaces.

  • Kershaw, George.
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1861
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Specification of George Kershaw : medico-electric surfaces. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Patent for a device "to produce medico-electric surfaces to be applied to such parts of the human body as require an artificial excitement to restore the functional energy of the nervous or membranous system of those parts". Basically, plates of metal (copper or zinc) which will "be set in action" by "reason of the moisture of the skin" which counteract paralysis.

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London : Great Seal Patent Office, 1861 (London : George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode)

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4 pages, 1 folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm

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At head of title: A.D. 1860, 24th August. No. 2046.
"George Kershaw, of Upton Cottage, Slough, in the county of Bucks, stationer."

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    Pat. vol. 28
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    Pat. vol. 28:15

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