US1280560A - Device for treating goiters. - Google Patents

Description

H- L. SCHO'LL.

DEVICE FOR mmms soma's. APPLICATION HLED FEB 23. I918.

Paitelited 0601,1918,

nee s Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 1, 1918.

Application filed February 38, 1918. Serial E0. 218,900.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY L. Sorrow, a citizen of United States, residing at Watertown, in the county of J efi'erson and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Treat- Goiters; and I do hereby declare the in following to be a full, clear, and exact de- ,scription of the invention, such as will enbeen successfully treated by the use of mer cury, zinc and iodin compounds. In the electro-galvanic treatment of goiter a limitation has been found where special electrodes with external sources are used, in that the treatment is applied intermittently for a few minutes at a time and requiring many treatments.

The object of this invention is to employ means. for generating voltaic currents in contact with the skin, in presence of mercurous iodid and calcium chlorid, a saline or .acid solution; the device consisting of a chain, necklace, belt or band of ornamental appearance and of easy and comfortable a plication, so that the wearer can apply t e treatment with minimum discomfort and inconvenience.

More specifically the appliance embodies two bands or strips of dissimilar metal such as copper and zinc, connected by a copper wire and making a continuous course of voltaic connections having a spacer or so ara-i tor insulating material such as heads 0 amber, glass, or compositions of similar insulating materials woven between each connection, through which the copper wire passes to make numerous voltaic connections The bands or strips become active by their edges coming in contact with the skin, which has been prepared by the application of an ointment containing suitable materials, such as a combination ofmercurous iodid and calcium chlorid, or a repared saline or acid solution. The skin t us treated constitutes the electrolytic portion of the voltaic cell, which establishes a path for the current and a mild voltaic current will thus flow.

" As above stated .the skin of the wearer 80 forms the electrolyte of the device, which skin is in itself slightl conductive by the resence of calcium 0 orid and mercurous lodid, saline or other acid solutions. The

chief purpose of the mercurous iodid is to furnish materials having suitable medical properties, while the chief functions of the calclum chlorid is, due to its hygroscopic property to attract moisture, likewise with a saline or other acid solution. The calcium chlorid thus combined with water furnishes the electrolyte by which the electrolytic action can be initiated. The formation of zinc iodid and zinc chlorid likewise produces compounds which are hygroscopic and at tract moisture, tending to add to the conductivity of the electrolytic art of the circuit. The flow of current w ich is thus established exercises that well known cataphoretic effect, causing certain constituents v to travel through the skin in the direction with a uni-directional current which causes these materials to pass through the skin and thus become readily absorbed in the circulatory system, and by dividing the band, a necklace in the middle in such manneras to position the zinc or electro ositive strip on one side of the goiter an the copper or electronegative strip or band on the opposite side the electrical action between these strips or bands will permeate the goiter and a thorou h treatment will result.

With t e foregoing and other objects in view this invention consists in such novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanyin drawings and claimed.

In descri ing the invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawings wherein like characters designate like and corresponding arts throughout the several views and in w ich:

Figure 1 is view showing the application of the improved device for treating goiters.

ings, the necklace as shown comprisesa pluthe two sections of which are indicated at the numeral 6. The catch or clasp structures 4 form means to confine the beads upon the cords.2 .and 3- and also means for connecting the ribbons 5. to the necklaceproper. The

ribbons '6 are tied about the neck of the .wearerto holdthe. necklace in place.

. The'clasps 4 provide means for confining the beads upon the cords and the cords2' and 3 extend parallel to'each other, inwardly f'from the clasps4, to the points 7 where'they are twisted, one about the other and bowed to form a" substantially elliptical enlargement at the center of the necklace. ,The.

beads 1 are mounted upon the bowed portions of the wires or cords 2 and 3 and also upon a copper wire 8 which is bent to form an ellipse and has its ends twisted togetheras shown at 9.

i Strips or bands 10 and 11 are interwoven.

with the beads 1" on the bowed portions of the wires or cords 2 and 3and u on the wire 8, as clearly shown in Fig. 2 of t e drawings.

The strip or band 10 is electropositive material, such as zinc, while the strip or band 11 is of electronegative material such as copper. The wire 8 is a conductor'which furnishes the necessary metallic connection between the bands or strips 10 and-11 to make them electro-chemically active and in use becomes a part of the metal bands.

In use, an omtment as above specified is naeaeeo applied to the skin which increases the elec trolytic conductivity of the skin and the necklace, band or the like is then put in place with the bifurcated portion over the goiter or affected parts so that the bands or strips 10 and 13. rest against the skin; there is thus produced a series of connections or contacts for two individual bands or strips forming one individual cell, the electrolytic portion of which is supplied by the skin of the wearer and the ointment laced thereon, no external source of current ing required for the therapeutic effect.

Having thus fully described the invention what is claimed is:

1. A device as set forth consisting of a belt or necklace having a looped portion formed therein, and electrodes carried by each section of the looped portion and composed of metal occupying different positions in. the electro motive series a plnralityof insulating beads strung upon said bifurcated portion and interwoven thereon with said electrodes and a conductive wire extending through said beads and electrodes.

2. A device as set forth consisting of a belt, or necklace having a looped portion formed therein, to provide spaced cords, insulating beads strung on said spaced cords a copper wireextending through said beads, astrip of electropositive material inter woven with said beads upon one of said spaced cords, and a strip of electronegative material interwoven with the beads upon the other of said spaced cords.

i In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

I HENRY L. SCHOLL. Witnesses:

' O. G. HAHN,

. Grumman Scrm'rz.

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