Specification of Thomas Welton : magnets for curative purposes.

  • Welton, T. (Thomas)
Date:
1876
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Credit: Specification of Thomas Welton : magnets for curative purposes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Magnets for Curative Purposes. (This Invention received Provisional Protection only.) PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Welton at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 27th October 1875. I, Thomas Welton, of 13, Grafton Street, Fitzroy Square, in the 6 County of Middlesex, Maker of Artificial Limbs, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “ Improvements in Portable Magnetic Appliances in Magneto Therapeutics,” to be as follows :— My Invention has for its object the adaptation of portable magnets for application to all and various parts of the human body for the purpose 10 of curing diseases ; for this purpose I use thin plates of steel perforated or otherwise, or woven wire, or woven wire cloth, and form of it or them such articles as I may desire, such as lockets, bracelets, brooches, girdles, finger rings, buttons, imitation watches, necklets, garters, respirators, &ea., &ca., of any design, size, shape, or configuration, as may 15 be desired; may be enamelled, or partially so, or otherwise ornamented or stamped, or engraved; be varnished or japanned, and may be magnetized while in process of manufacture or afterwards, or when finished by way of any of the well known magnetic processes, but not coyer ed or encased in any india-rubber compound, or material, or electro-