Specification of Victor Theodore Junod : vacuum apparatus for the relief of inflammatory diseases.

  • Junod, Victor Theodore.
Date:
1866
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Credit: Specification of Victor Theodore Junod : vacuum apparatus for the relief of inflammatory diseases. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Junod's Impts. in Vacuum Apparatus^ for the Relief of Inflammatory Diseases.> patient can regulate the action as required, and the exhausing apparatus may¬ be acted upon and regulated (so as to maintain the vacuum at the same level by its own self-acting power at one uniform pressure) by means of a. descending weight arranged in order to act upon the air pump when required, it is better, if possible, to have three receivers and three descending weights 5 * f (instead of one) with a row of three main pipes similar to those used for gas fixed against the wall of the chamber, and passing the head of the bed of each patient. By this means it is possible to connect the patient with the receiver where the vacuum is kept at a slight degree for many hours, and if required all day and all night, and thus it is also possible to make the descending weight 10 Heavier or lighter at pleasure. In place of employing an ordinary air pump worked by hand, the air may be exhausted also by means of small aspiring bellows having a spiral spring inside set in motion by the foot of the patient dr otherwise. The vacuum apparatus previously described according to my improvements 15 s. affords the following advantages, namely, considerable reduction of cost, economy of time *in its application, prevention of pain to the patient, with compactness of form so as to render it very portable. In witness whereof, I, the said Victor Theodore Junod, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this 28th day of July, in the year of our Lord 20 One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six. V. T. JUNOD. (L.S.) Witness, J. G. Tongue, ' , - Patent Agent, ‘ 25 34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, W.C. HU*..—. I ■ ■■ ■ .■■■ ■ - « LONDON;. Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty. 1866.