Specification of Edmund Adolphus Kirby : portable medicine case, &c.

  • Kirby, Edmund Adolphus.
Date:
1867
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Edmund Adolphus Kirby : portable medicine case, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A.D, 1867, §th February. N° 372. Portable Medicine Case, &c. ( This Invention received Provisional Protection only.) PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edmund Adolphus Kirby at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 9th February 1867. I, Edmund Adolphus Kirby, of Gordon Square, in the County of Mid- 5 dlesex, Doctor of Medicine, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for u A New or Improved Portable Miniature Dispensary and Instrument Case for the Use of Medical Practitioners, and for general Purposes,” to be as follows This case has been invented to supply medical men with a portable and 10 ready means of dispensing the medicines they prescribe during their visits to their patients and at their own homes, and to afford a convenient mode of carrying with them besides medicines certain chinical and other instruments which are necessary and constantly required at the bedside in the investigation or the treatment of disease or injuries, together with convenient writing 15 materials for taking notes or writing prescriptions. The Invention is also designed and adapted to the requirements of travellers, colonists, and others resident at a distance from medical men and chemists, and it is suitable for domestic use and all the purposes for which a medicine chest is employed, both by professional men and others. 20 The novelty of the Invention consists,— Firstly, in the general construction and arrangment of the case by which the uses and conveniences of several cases are combined in one with com¬ pactness and economy of space, the whole being very portable, light, an d