Improvements in and relating to the treating of patients by static, galvanic, or like electrical currents.

  • Macaura, Gerald Joseph
Date:
1905
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Improvements in and relating to the treating of patients by static, galvanic, or like electrical currents. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 Nw 10,067 A.D. 1905 Date of Application, 13th May, 1905—Accepted, 24th Aug,, 1905 ! COMPLETE SPECIFICATION. Improvements in and relating to the Treating of Patients by Static, Galvanic, or like Electrical Currents. I, Gerald Joseph Macaura, M.D., (U.S.A)., of 4, Spring Bank, Bradford, in the County of York, Medical Practitioner, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner* the same is to be performed, to be particu¬ larly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:— This invention is for improvements in and relating to the treating of patients by static, galvanic, or like electrical currents, and has for its object an improved means of and apparatus for treatment, whereby any reasonable number of patients may be treated at one and the same time, from one machine or generator. Hitherto, in treating patients by means of an electric current, it lias been customary to treat one patient at a time from one machine, from which the desired current is produced. In some cases, however, as many as three patients have been treated at one and the same time from one machine, but in.such case, the treatment has entailed the employment of a nurse or assistant for each person, whereas by my improved means I may treat at one and the same time from one machine, as many patients as may be comfortably seated in an ordinary room, for example, twenty or thirty, without necessitating a nurse or assistant for each patient. Further, by this means I am enabled to treat a great number of patients in a day, and consequently, the patients’ time is not unduly wasted, through waiting their turn, and in addition, there is a saving of fees for the patients. In describing my invention in detail, reference is made to the accompanying sheet of drawings, similar letters indicating similar parts, in which, Fig. 1 represents a plan of a room fitted with my improvement. Fig. 2 represents a sectional elevation shewing the insulated rod and adjust¬ able stationary electrode hereinafter referred to. I accomplish my object by conducting the current, generated by any machine A, suitable for the purpose, by means of a chain or the like B, to an insulated rod of metal C, such rod being arranged at a suitable height from the floor of the room, and around the same, or partially so, as may be desired. For the privacy of the patient, the room may be divided into what might be termed cubicles D. The rod C may be retained either on insulated brackets E, attached to one or more of the partitions P, comprising ebonite or like bear¬ ing E1, and stitf rubber or like supports E2; or suspended from the ceiling by means of suitable insulated suspension rods. In each cubicle D is placed an electrode F, which may be adjusted in such a manner as to be adjacent to or in contact with the seat of the ailment to be treated. The electrode F is supported in an insulated adjustable arm F1, whereby the same may be turned in any direction, such arm F1 is in turn mounted on an insulated bracket or the like G which may revolve, such bracket ter¬ minating in a collar H, which surrounds the spindle J of a suitable stand, the collar H being clamped into the desired position on spindle J by means of a screw or the like H1. Connecting the insulated rod C to the electrode F is an insulated wire, rod, chain, or the like K, which may be attached to the electrode in any suitable \Price