A NEW LIQUID FOR PREVENTING SEA SICKNESS
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jean Antoine François Victor Oudin, of Mons,
Departement of Seine and Marne, in the Empire of France, and of
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Priest, for the Invention of "A NEW
Sealed the 20th April 1855, and dated the 16th January 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jean Antoine François
Victor Oudin at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 16th January 1855.
I, JEAN ANTOINE FRANÇOIS VICTOR OUDIN, of Mons, Departement of Seine
and Marne, in the Empire of France, and of 4, South Street, Finsbury,
London, Priest, do hereby declare the nature of my Invention of "A NEW
LIQUID FOR PREVENTING SEA SICKNESS" to be as follows:
My Invention consists in producing a liquid susceptible of preventing sea
sickness, which is prepared as follows:-I distil ten parts of hydrochloric acid
with one hundred and fifty parts of alcohol, and mix the whole in about one
thousand to one thousand two hundred parts of water; I then sweeten the
liquid with a small quantity of syrup of sugar.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Jean Antoine. François Victor Oudin in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 14th July 1855.
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TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JEAN
ANTOINE FRANÇOIS VICTOR OUDIN, of Mons, Département of Seine & Marne,
in the Empire of France, and of 4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Priest,
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the eighteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself. Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Jean Antoine François Victor Oudin, Her special license that I, the
said Jean Antoine François Victor Oudin, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Jean Antoine François Victor Oudin,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and
no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter 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 of "A NEW LIQUID FOR PREVENTING
SEA SICKNESS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Jean
Antoine François Victor Oudin, by an instrument in writing under my hand
and seal, 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.
L.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Jean Antoine François Victor Oudin,
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 thereof, that is to
say:-
My Invention consists in the composition of a liquid for preventing or
alleviating sea sickness.
I distil one-third of an ounce (troy) of hydrochloric acid in five ounces of
alcohol, and mix the product in thirty-two to thirty-eight ounces of water; I
sweeten the liquid with syrup of sugar. I, however, compose the liquid,
by preference, of two and two-thirds of an ounce, troy, of dry chloride of
lime mixed with eight ounces of water, to which I add ten and two-thirds
of an ounce of alcohol. The whole is distilled by ordinary means, until I
obtain as a product five and one-third of an ounce of the liquid. I afterwards

page_text: mix this product in a stone or glass beaker with thirty-two to thirty-eight
ounces of water, and sweeten it with syrup of sugar; I add to one or the other
of these liquors a few drops of essence of mint or bitter almonds, and give it a
rose-colored tint by a weak solution of cochineal. One or two table spoonfuls
of the liquor thus prepared should be taken prior to going on board, when
it will in most cases prevent sea sickness; if taken during the retching, it
will greatly reduce its violence and the pain arising from the sickness.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that I do not confine
myself to the precise details or proportions herein laid down, so long as the
peculiar feature of the Invention be retained; but what I claim is, the com-
position of a liquor for preventing or alleviating sea sickness, as herein-before
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Jean Antoine François Victor Oudin,
have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Tenth day of July, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five
J. A. F. V. OUDIN. (L.S.)