AN IMPROVED ZYXOTIC DISINFECTING FLUID."
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Walter Charles Westerton, of 11, Orchard
Terrace, Kensington, in the County of Middlesex, Clerk, for the
Invention of “AN IMPROVED ZYXOTIC DISINFECTING FLUID."
T
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Walter Charles
Westerton at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 81st March 1871.
I, WALTER CHARLES WESTERTON, 11, Orchard Terrace, Kensington,
in the County of Middlesex, Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "AN IMPROVED ZYHOTIC DISINFECTING FLUID,” to be as
follows:-
The novelty of this Invention consists of a combination of volatile
substances, such as ether and methylated spirits with carbolic & acetic
acids &water, and I claim as new the use of these volatile substances
in disseminating disinfecting matter in the atmosphere, thereby preventing
the spread of zymotic diseases, destroying foul odours and obnoxious
emanations from infected bodies, and also as a general disinfectant in all
cases where disinfection is required, and I propose to use for this pur-

page_text: pose to every gallon of the fluid 28 ozs. of methylated spirit, 12 drachms
ether, 4 ozs. carbolic acid, and 32 ozs. acetic acid, and from its cleansing
properties I also propose to use it in a diluted state as a gargle for
ulcerative diseases of the throat, as a lotion for foul ulcers, putrid sores,
and all cases of a similar nature in which a cleansing lotion is required.
Although I have stated above certain proportions of the substances
to be used, I do not confine myself thereto, as in order to meet the
exigencies of various cases it may be advisable to increase or decrease
the foregoing proportions.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, 1
filed by the said Walter Charles Westerton in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 31st July 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WALTER
CHARLES WESTERTON, of 11, Orchard Terrace, Kensington, in the
County of Middlesex, Clerk, send greeting.
"
•
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Walter Charles Westerton, Her special a
licence, that I, the said Walter Charles Westerton, my executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, or such others as. I, the said Walter Charles
Westerton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention
for "AN IMPROVED ZYMOTIC DISINFECTING FLUID," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Walter Charles Westerton, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.".

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Walter Charles Westerton, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
The object of my Invention as set forth in the title is a new com-
bination of carbolic and acetic acids with ether, mythylated spirits,
and water, which forming a highly volatile fluid rapidly disseminates
disinfecting matter in the atmosphere, thereby preventing the spread of
zymotic diseases, destroying foul odours, obnoxious emanations from
infected bodies, and it is also a general disinfectant in all typhoid and
eruptic fevers, and in all cases where a disinfectant is required, and I
propose to use for this
purpose to every gallon of the fluid four ounces
carbolic acid, thirty-two ounces acetic acid, one and half ounces ether,
and twenty-eight ounces mythylated spirits, and from its cleansing pro-
perties I also propose to use it in a diluted state as a gargle for
ulcerative diseases of the throat, as a lotion for foul ulcers and sores,
and all cases of a similar nature in which a cleansing lotion is
required.
I have in the foregoing description alluded to a certain proportion of
the substances to be used, but I do not confine myself thereto as in order
to meet the exigencies of various cases it may be advisable to increase
or decrease the foregoing proportions, but what I claim as new and
novel, and desire to secure in the herein-before in part recited Letters
Patent is, the combination of a highly volatile fluid with disinfecting
substances.
In witness whereof, I, the said Walter Charles Westerton, have
hereunto set my hand and scal, this Fifth day of July, in