Improvements in body-coolers and fever-reducers and supporting frames therefor / [Edwin Belmont Magill].

  • Magill, Edwin Belmont.
Date:
1889
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Credit: Improvements in body-coolers and fever-reducers and supporting frames therefor / [Edwin Belmont Magill]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A.D. 1880 Dote of Applicat:on, 5th Nov., 1889—Accepted, 7th Dec., 1889 COMPLETE SPECIFICATION. Improvements in Body-coolers and Fever-reducers and Supporting: Frames therefor. I, Edwin Belmont Magill, of La Crosse, in the County of La Crosse, in the State of Wisconsin, United States of America, Banker, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for Improvements in Body-coolers and Fever-reducers and Supporting Frames therefor, and in what manner the same is to be performed, 5 to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:— This invention relates, as hereinafter set forth, to a novel device for cooling various portions of the human body in the reduction of fevers and for other purposes and in a framo or support for adjustably supporting the cooling device in appropriate position relatively to the body. 10 In the accompanying drawings I have represented, in figures 1 to 4 inclusive, the apparatus capable of general application to the trunk, limbs and neck, though it may also be used for the head. In figures 5 to 7 inclusive, is shown a form of apparatus especially adapted for use in cooling and reducing fevers and inflammation in the head. In the several illustrations illustrated and referred to the apparatus is equally 15 well-adapted for cooling portions of quick bodies and for maintaining corpses at the desired temperature. The cooling apparatus in all of the forms in which it is susceptible of being con¬ structed consists, essentially, of one or more boxes or trays having ice-receiving and holding portions each having the walls which, when the apparatus is in use, are 20 adjacent to the part, to be cooled provided with guarded or shielded air passages through which the cooled air after contact with the ice passes to the body certain details of construction being also employed to adapt more than one section of the apparatus being employed as desired and to connect such together and support the same in suitable position all as hereinafter fully described. 25 In the accompanying drawings :— Figure I, represents a perspective view of my improved body-cooler and fever- reducer of a shape suitable for employment in cooling various portions of the body. Figure 2, represents a longitudinal section taken on the line a, a, of figure 1. 30 Figure 4, represents a detail view, partly broken away, of one of the side boxes or ice receptacles and air-coolers. Figure 5, represents my frame or support for adjustably supporting the cooler at any desired altitude above the body and so as to adapt the same for application to different parts of the body and to people of varying size, this figure also represents 35 the manner in which the cooler is adjustably supported thereon. Figure 6, represents a perspective view of my complete apparatus as designed for application to the head for cooling the same. Figure 7, represents a sectional elevation of the bottom portion of the apparatus. Figure 8, represents a similar view of the top portion. 40 This apparatus is designed for cooling portions of the human anatomy generally for the purpose of reducing inflammation and fevers therein, reducing the temperature, cooling corpses and as a substitute for the application of and constant changing of wet cloths on persons the apparatus being especially serviceable in cases of brain fever, wounds, spinal meningitis and inflammation and fever generally. 45 The forms shown in the drawings are such as have been found especially advantageous in treating the head and other parts of the human body generally. In some cases, however, it may be found advantageous to modify somewhat the [Price 8^.] #