Specification of George Lovett : portable apparatus for administering hot hair, [sic] vapour, and shower baths.

  • Lovett, George.
Date:
1859
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of George Lovett : portable apparatus for administering hot hair, [sic] vapour, and shower baths. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A.D. 1858.—N° 2215. Provisional Specification. Lovett's Impts. in Apparatus for Administering Hot Air, Vapour, Qc. Baths. patient has been admitted into the bath) by a cord for the purpose of pre¬ venting the escape of the vapor. A force pump is attached to the bath pan, for the purpose of forcing* up water from a tub or other vessel into the elevated shower water vessel. By this arrangement the steam from the boiler is led into the bath, and caused to rise into and fill the space occupied 5 by the patient, who, when exposed sufficiently long to the action of the vapor, can receive a shower of either hot, cold, or tepid water from above. To facilitate the transport of this apparatus, I lift the head off the supporting rods, withdraw these from their sockets, and place the head in the pan. For administering hot air or medicated vapor baths, I form the bath of 10 wood, closing the upper part with hinged doors, which are removable, and in one of which an opening is made to permit of the head of the patient protruding.. Within this bath (by preference under the chair or support for the patient) I place a gas stove for generating heat, which stove I supply with gas from a flexible gas holder. Air being freely admitted to this stove 15 will, in passing through it, become heated, and thereby raise the temperature of the bath to any required degree, and if at the same time the vapor of sulphur, mercury, or other chemical substance is required to be administered, the substance may be placed in a cup and submitted to the heat of the stove, by which it will be driven into vapor. 20 LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. 1859. •• ■*&