J.L. Pulvermacher's patent portable hydro-electric voltaic chains : Sold by J. Steinert, sole agent, no. 568 Broadway, New York.

  • Pulvermacher, J. L.
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[1853]
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Credit: J.L. Pulvermacher's patent portable hydro-electric voltaic chains : Sold by J. Steinert, sole agent, no. 568 Broadway, New York. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    L.S.A., Surgeon to the K Division of Police, London; Jos. R. Cooper, Esq., M.R.C.S., Eng., L.A.C. London ; Richard Hudson Courtenay,Esq., M.R.C.S., Surgeon Accoucheur to the Islington Lyine-in Hospital, formerly Inspector of Hospitals for < fentral Board of Health in Ireland ; Thomas D. Griffiths Esq., M.R.C.S.E., Amlwch, Angfesea; Lh. H. Smyth, Esq., Surgeon, Devonshire House- C* Massingberd, Esq., M.h'.C-S., Holyhead ; R. Lloyd, Esq., M.R.C.8., Dolgelly, N Wales; P. Goolden Esq, M.R.C.S., I..S.A., Maidenhead; E M Itingley, Esq, M.R.O.S., Tottenham Park, Wills- Silvanus Longman, Surgeon, Milborne Port; Dr Henry Johnson, M 1), Senior Physician to the Salop Infirmary; John M Bywater, Esq., Surgeon, LSA, Knottingley, Yorkshire; Dr A Graham, MD Retired Superintending Surgeon to the Bombay Army, K,amsgate ; John Poole, Esq, Surgeon' Oxford-street. Liverpool; W Kendall, Esq, Surgeon, P>udleign, Devon; Arthur C Morse, ^Eso' MRCS, LA'^, Crewkerhe, Somerset; Oh Sylvester, Esq, M R C S, Cowbridge, Glamorgan; Thomas Newham, Esq, House Surgeon to the Chichester Infirmary; Dr J B Thompson, MD, o', Suffolk-place, Pal! Mall East, London ; Dr S T Evans, M D, Physician to the Newmarketon Fergus Dispensary, &c Dr Avery Roberts, MD, Brighton; Dr W Denner, M D, Gravel Hill House, Littleworth, near Strom If Gloucestershire ; James R Whyte, Esq, M R 0 S, Launcells, Cornwall. [From the following Hospitals highly favorable Reports have been received :— Guy's Hospital, Southwark—London Hospital, London—Universisy College Hospital, London King's College Hospital, Westminster—St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London—Royal Free Hospital, Loudon—Charing Cross Hospital, Westminster—German Hospital, Dalston—Allgemeine Kranken- haus (the principal Hospital,) Vienna—Hospital of Wieden, near Vienna—Hospital Bougeon, at Paris—Hospital St. Louis, at Paris, &c, &c. [Favorably reported by— The Royal College of Physicians in London, in the meeting of 28th June, 1851—The Royal College of Surgeons in London, in the meeting of 2nd July, 1851—The Royal British Association, in the meeting at Ipswich, 8th July, 1851—The Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, in the meeting at Brighton, on the 13th and 14th August, 1851—The Pharmaceutical Society, London, in the meeting, the 3rd January, 1851. FRANCE. (TRANSLATION.) [Extract of a report made to the National Academy of Medicine, at Paris, at its meeting on the 1st of April, 1851. Commissioners: Messieurs Berard, Bouvier, Gaultier de Claubry, Gueneau de Mussy, Longet, Poisenille. Reporter : Monsieur Soubeyran. Experiecnes Scientipiques.— The Voltaic Chains of Mr. Pulvermacher, are really a most won- derful apparatus. It is astonishing to see these little piles, with pole plates and ribbons beautifully arranged, and adapting themselves exactly to the form of the body, capable of producing—under this small volume—the most surprising effects. :i The Commission begs to propose to the Academy to address their thanks to Mr. Pulvermacher, for his most interesting communication.—Bulletin de l'Acadamie, Tome XVI, No. 13. [Short explanation added to the report by Dr. Bouvier, one of the members of the Commission on the Chain Batteries for Doctors of Medicine, constructed on the same principle as the portable Chains. They unite henceforward two advantages, which no other apparatus does possess until now ; they are more portable and cheaper, two indispensable conditions in an apparatus of this description, in order to make the application of electricity, as yet so little known, more general, and to a certain degree popular ; which is certainly very desirable in the interest of patients, as well as of the pro- fession itself. In this respect the Chains of Mr. Pulvermacher will have a great future, so much more as they are constantly being improved, and as new modifications may still add to then perfection, and to their utility in the treatment of disease. (Adopted.) Acadamie Nationale de Medicine : Paris, 3rd April, 1851. [The Perpetual Secretary of the Academy to Dr. Pulvermacher, of Vienna (Austria.) Sir,—I am happy to inform you that the Commission, elected by the Academy to examine your Voltaic Chains, made its report on Tuesday last, to the Academy, through the medium of Monsieur Soubeyran. The Academy, Sir, after having heard the reading of the report, offers you, through me, then- best thanks for your highly interesting communication. (Signed,) DUBOIS. The Hydro Electric Voltaic Chains are at present before the Academie des Sciences, which has elected a special Committee (Messieurs Bequerel and Pouillet) to try the Chain in chemical and physical experiments. [Extract of a letter of Ad: Amedee Latour, M.D., at Paris, published in the Union Medicale, Tome VI., page 32. The Voltaic Pile will change the whole world, said Napoleon the First, and the present Napoleon promises a great reward to its promote \ ta it is Wife great satisfaction, that the followers of Msqu-