Specification of David Jones : generating vapours for inhalation, &c.

  • Jones, David.
Date:
1872
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    Provisional Specification. A.D. 1871.—N° 2620. 3 Jones' Impts. in Apparatus for Generating Vapours for Inhalation, fyc. tlie body, then an open chamber or vessel containing medicinal or other fluids or matters is placed or arranged underneath or within the arched chamber, a small jet of steam being conducted through the fluid or matters contained in the vessel so as to give off or discharge the vapours 5 inside the chamber enclosing the patient, as required. By similar means heat or heated vapours may be applied to either of the limbs or part of the body of a patient by enclosing or surrounding the same with a hollow chamber, and applying heat or heated vapour thereto, as previously described. 10 According to another part of my improvements I construct a hollow portable chamber of similar form to an arm chair, furnished with a movable cane or other openwork seat for the patient to sit upon. The front and upper part of this form of hollow portable chamber is furnished with a flexible woollen or other suitable cover which can be closed 15 around the neck of the patient so as to enclose the body, thus leaving the patient free to breathe. The interior of the hollow portable chamber may be heated by steam from a portable boiler as previously described, or by a current of hot air being caused to circulate through it from a stove, spirit lamp, or gas burner arranged underneath. Medicinal or 20 other vapours may be generated within the hollow chamber in the manner previously described, so as to come in contact with the body of the patient. In like manner heat, steam, or vapour may be applied, according to my Invention, to the bodies of horses or other animals. LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. 1872.