Specification of Ernest Bagnicki : apparatus for curing leucorrhœa, &c.

  • Bagnicki, Ernest.
Date:
1859
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Credit: Specification of Ernest Bagnicki : apparatus for curing leucorrhœa, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A.D. 1859, 8th February. N° 352. Apparatus for Curing Leucorrhcea, &c. LETTERS PATENT to Doctor Ernest Bagnicki, of New York, in the County and State of New York, in the United States of America, for the Inven- tion of “ An Improved Syringing Apparatus for Curing Leucorrhea and similar Sexual Diseases.” Sealed the 1st April 1859, and dated the 8th February 1859. PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Doctor Ernst Bagnicki at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 8th February 1859. I, Doctor Ernest Bagnicki, of New York, in the County and State of 5 New York, in the United States of America, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “An Improved Syringing Apparatus for Curing Leucorrhea and similar Sexual Diseases,” to be as follows :— This Invention relates to a peculiar construction and arrangement of syringing apparatus for curing leucorrhea and similar sexual diseases, and 10 consists of an apparatus whereby the curing of such diseases is effected by injection in combination with electricity, which latter acts in connection with the dormant electricity of the human body so as to produce the desired electrical effect simultaneously with the injection of the water or other suitable fluid. For this purpose it is proposed to employ a chair or other convenient 15 seat fitted below with a tank, which is divided into two chambers by a very fine $ieve placed vertically therein. Into one of these chambers is poured the fluid