A MIXTURE OR COMPOUND FOR THE CUREURE OF ASTHMA, CONSUMPTION, AND OTHER APPECTIONS OF THE CHEST OR LUNGS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jane Elizabeth Reed, of Southgate, in the County.
of Middlesex, for the Invention of "A MIXTURE OR COMPOUND FOR THE CURE
Sealed the 16th December 1856, and dated the 17th October 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jane Elizabeth Reed at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with her Petition, on the
17th October 1856.
I, JANE ELIZABETH REED, of Southgate, in the County of Middlesex, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A MIXTURE OR COMPOUND
FOR THE CURE OF ASTHMA, CONSUMPTION, AND OTHER APPECTIONS OF THE CHEST OR
LUNGS," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to a mixture or compound for the cure of asthma,
consumption, coughs, and other affections of the chest and lungs, and
consists of the following ingredients, namely, vinegar, garlic, honey, brandy,
carraway seeds, and sweet fennel seeds, the relative proportions of which
several ingredients and the method of admixing or compounding the same will
be hereafter fully detailed in my Final Specification.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Jane Elizabeth Reed in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
17th April 1857.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Jane Elizabeth Reed, Her special licence that I, the said Jane Elizabeth
Reed, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Jane Elizabeth Reed, 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 "A MIXTURE OR
COMPOUND FOR THE CURE OF ASTHMA, CONSUMPTION, AND OTHER AFFECTIONS OF THE
CHEST OR LUNGS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Jane
Elizabeth Reed, 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..
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NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Jane Elizabeth Reed, 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 in writing, as follows, that is to say:
My said Invention relates to a mixture or compound for the cure of coughs,
consumptive and asthmatic complaints, and other affections of the chest and
lungs, and is compounded of the following ingredients, namely, vinegar,
garlic, honey, brandy, carraway, seeds, and sweet fennel seeds. The relative
proportions of the several ingredients which I employ are as follows:-
Vinegar
Garlic..
Honey
1 quart,
6. ounces,
Brandy
Carraway seeds
Sweet fennel seeds
"..
The method of descatine infusing and admixing
2 pounds,
1 quart,
1 ounce, and
1 ounce. -
or ompounding the

page_text: the same in a vessel of water, which is kept at or near the boiling point for an
hour or so. The mixture or infusion is then to be strained, and when it is
cold the brandy is to be added, and the mixture is then ready for use. The
dose to be taken is two teaspoonsful of the mixture with one of water every
three or four hours. For children it should be diluted with an equal quantity
of water.
Having thus described the nature and object of my said Invention of a
mixture or compound for the cure of asthma, consumption, and other
affections of the chest or lungs, together with the manner of carrying the
same into practical effect, I would remark, in conclusion, that I do not intend
to confine myself to the precise proportions of the several ingredients above
stated, nor yet to the exact method of decocting, infusing, and admixing the
same, as it is evident that several slight variations and modifications might be
made without departing from the peculiar character of my Invention, which I
declare to consist in, and I claim, the preparation of a mixture or compound
for the cure of coughs, consumptive and asthmatic complaints, and other
affections of the chest and lungs, by the decoction, infusion, and admixture of
the several ingredients above named.
In witness whereof, I, the said Jane Elizabeth Reed, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of December, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
J. E. REED. (L.S.)