Specification of William Hibbert : medicinal compounds.

  • Hibbert, William.
Date:
1866
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    Provisional Hilbert's Improvements in Medicinal Compounds. position in the blood of human beings or animals,, as in the cases of rinderpest, fevers, womb diseases, scrofula, mortification, glanders, mange, running sores, and other diseases arising from an unhealthy state of the blood. The said compound consists of chlorides of magnesium, bromine, and zinc, either separately or in any combination. I take chloride of magnesium in 5 solution at about 40° Twaddell, add from one to two ounces of bromine to a gallon of the said solution, and in some cases from five to ten per cent, of chloride of zinc. For human beings ten to twenty drops in a wine glass of pure water will be a sufficient dose for an adult, to be repeated as the case may require. For cattle one to two ounces of the solution with five to 10 ten per cent, of chloride of zinc added may be given in a pint of water, or as miuch water as the beast will drink, but these proportions may be varied according to the virulence of the disease. For outward application, as baths or embrocations, the said solution maybe freely applied ; also painless bandages which do not stick to the skin when taken 15 off are obtained by impregnating cloth with the above solution. By increasing the chloride of zinc to from eleven to twenty per cent, it may also be freely used as a disinfectant for hospitals, barracks, holds of ships, railway trucks, or similar places, I also use chlorides of magnesium and bromine for preserving animal matter for shipment as food, the strength to be about 16° Twaddell. 20 The mechanical apparatus consists of an auxiliary lung respirator, which I make of leather or other suitable material, and of any suitable conformation to suit cattle or human beings. In the muzzle or pad for the mouth or nose 1 punch two or more holes sufficiently large to ensure easy breathing. To each hole I attach a tube and valve with couplings for attaching thereto tubing 25 of any required length, one of the valves is fixed to open inwards towards the mouth, the other to open outwards from the mouth; the air supply valve being opened by inhalation, and closed by respiration; the outlet valve is opened by respiration and closed by inhalation ; a bag or receiver is fastened under the ; end of the muzzle to receive the saliva with an outlet for its removal. Tubes 30 of any required length are coupled to the supply and outlet valves by which the pure air may be supplied direct to and the respired air conveyed direct from the respiratory organs any distance from the patient or hospital. My improved air disinfecting filter is attached or not to a reserve chamber from which the respiratory organs are supplied with disinfected air, and coil- 35 sists of a box sufficiently large to supply one or more subjects, in which box is inserted a number of tubes which conduct the air through the disinfecting solution, after which it rises through charcoal, coke, or other material saturated, with the same solutions and through a sieve or perforated plate into the