Specification of Thomas Welton : applying charcoal for curative and other purposes.

  • Welton, T. (Thomas)
Date:
1869
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    Welton's Method of Applying Charcoal for Curative and other Purposes. animals, also for further uses, such as a dentrifrice, a cataplasm, or poultice, a manure, an anisthetic, and when compressed into proper form as a filter for water of other liquids, by the following means:— I take charcoal, either animal or vegetable as may he found most suitable, and grind it into a powder or such sized pieces as may be 5 requisite, and put it into a proper vessel and heat it, and by so doing expel the atmospheric air; then admit to it while so heated such gas as may be required, or mixture of gases, or vapour of metal or metals, or drugs, or vapour of phosphorous, bromine, ammonia, sodine, or other materials, which the charcoal by a well-known law will then absorb 10 in various quantities according to the gas and the other named materials used. Such charcoal when so prepared may then be used as a dentrifice, or cataplasm, or anisthetic, or for other curative purposes. And, further, I claim as my Invention the making of pills, cakes, troches, lozenges, capsules, or biscuits of charcoal or charcoal mixed 15 with other materials (to cause the compound to adhere), which may then be baked, and while in the oven, or afterwards, be charged with the gas, vapour, or drugs, as may be required; or an exhausting air pump may be attached to the oven or other vessel containing the biscuits or charcoal, so as to form a vacuum, into which the gas, gases, vapour 20 of metals or drugs may be injected or allowed to enter. And further I claim the right to electrieise such charcoal cakes or biscuits, and other similar articles when so prepared by any of the known means, and thereby increase it and their potency for the purposes before described. I also to produce the desired effects do not confine 25 myself to use one special material, but many, such as ozone, chlorine, oxygen, nitrogen, azote, carbonic acid gas, hydrogen, ammoniacal gas, nitrous oxide, or other gas or admixture of gases, or vapour of phosphorous or phosphorous acid, sodine, bromine, or other vapour of metal or metals, or drugs, • 30 Also I claim the admixture of urine or other fcecal matter with char¬ coal or other charred substances, either when heated or otherwise, which may be then dried or evaporated in fitting vessels, and by so doing from a very powerful manure, which may or may not be then treated as before described, viz1., by charging it with such gas or vapour, as before 35 described, or as it requires for such purposes.