Specification of Charles Daniel Hammond : curative apparatus.

  • Hammond, Charles Daniel.
Date:
1864
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Credit: Specification of Charles Daniel Hammond : curative apparatus. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A.D. 1863, 20th August. N° 2073. Curative Apparatus. LETTERS PATENT to Charles Daniel Hammond, of Charlotte Street, Bedford Square, in tlie County of Middlesex, Doctor of Medicine, for the Invention of “ Improvements in Apparatus for the Treatment of certain Bodily Ailments.” Sealed the 16th February 1864, and dated the 20th August 1863. PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Daniel Hammond * at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 20th August 1863. I, Charles Daniel Hammond, of Charlotte Street, Bedford Square, in 5 the County of Middlesex, Doctor of Medicine, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “ Improvements in Apparatus for the Treatment of certain Bodily Ailments,” to be as follows:— My improved apparatus for the cure of certain bodily ailments, consists of a series of pieces of metal or other material strung on elastic in the form of a 10 circle which has at the lower part of the circle a pad raised so as to cause extra pressure oh a certain portion of the urethra. This apparatus I attach to an ordinary suspensory bandage, or it may be otherwise sustained by a belt or other contrivance; to the belt I attach electric plates at intervals to induce galvanic action. The apparatus consisting of a series of pieces of metal