Specification of Amelie Angelina Bonnet : fumigating the human body.

  • Bonnet, Amelie Angelina.
Date:
1865
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Credit: Specification of Amelie Angelina Bonnet : fumigating the human body. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Bonnet's Improvements in Fumigating the Human Body. the whole of the body, the head excepted, or to any special part or limb of the human body. The chemical agents employed by me are either elementary or compound ; they vary in their nature and proportions according to the kind of disease or affections to be treated, the constitution, and the age of the patient, and very 5 frequently according to the duration and virulence of the disease. I do not, therefore, confine myself to any particular kind, proportions, or compound of the chemical agents producing the gases; however, for the gout, lumbago, and diseases of the skin, I preferably make use, either separately or in a compound state, for the production of gases carbonates of soda or of potash, rosin from 10 turpentine, and other similar substances; for rheumatism, lumbago, and similar diseases I use bicarbonate of soda or of potash, chloride of calcium, benzoin, and other like chemical agents. The arrangements of the apparatus for applying the chemical fumigations must naturally vary and be different according to the part or to the whole of the human frame to which it is to be 15 applied. But in order to have my Invention better understood, I will proceed to describe the annexed Drawing, in which the several letters of reference in Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 indicate parts which are similar. Figure 1 is a sectional elevation, and Figure 2 is a plan of an apparatus in 20 which the patient is sitting, having only his head above and out of the apparatus. A represents the chamber in which the small furnace B is placed; it has small apertures a, a, for the egress of the gases ; a door b serves to feed the fire, and to place the vessel c containing the chemical substances which are to produce the gases. The chimney D for increasing the draught is 25 provided with a tap or valve d, and a thermometer E serving to regulate the temperature. The patient’s back is supported by the buffer F, his hands rest on the cross piece G, and his feet on the stool H. A caoutchouc collar I at the top of the apparatus surrounds the neck hermetically. The chamber X . is at first heated by means of the fire-place B before the introduction of the 30 substances producing the gases which are disengaged from the vessel c. The side door y permits of examining the interior of the apparatus by withdrawing the lid Z. Figures 3 and 4 represent in elevation and in section an apparatus of the same kind, but prepared only for the introduction of the arms or legs. For 35 this purpose four orifices T, T, are made on the lateral face of the chamber X ; the two upper apertures serve for the arms, which rest either on a cross piece or on straps, which are not shewn in the Drawings ; caoutchouc collars close