Specification of William Edward Newton : truss supports.

  • Newton, William Edward.
Date:
1867
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Credit: Specification of William Edward Newton : truss supports. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Truss Supports,. LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Newton, of the Office for Patents^ 66, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, for the Invention of ‘^Improved Apparatus to be used as Spinal, Abdominal, and Pelvic Truss Supports.”—A cotom unication from abroad by Edmund Prior Banning, of New York City, in the United States of America. Sealed the 6th August 1867, and dated the 28th February 1867* PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Edward Newtoil at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 28th February 1867* I, William Euward Newton, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery Lane, 5 in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for Improved Apparatus to be used as Spinal, Abdominal, and Pelvic Truss Supports,” to be as follows:— This Invention relates to an apparatus to be employed by persons afflicted with weakness of the chest or spine, derangements of the abdominal and pelvic 10 organs, for the cure of which either a brace or support may be applied. The apparatus is so constructed and arranged that relief may be received by a patient for all these affections simultaneously in cases of complication, and on the cure of each, portions of the apparatus may be dispensed with as the need for a particular part ceases, or a special part of the npparatus may 15 be aj)i)lied separately for a single complaint, such as spinal weakness or