Abnormal Perspiration of the Human Body
Year: 1886

page_text: Abnormal Perspiration of the Human Body,
I, JULIUS VALENTIN BRANDAU, of Lichtenau, Prussia, in the Empire of
Germany, M.D. do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to an improved compound for preventing abnormal
perspiration of the human body, said compound being hereinafter referred to
under the term of " Antihidrorrhoidum."
The said "Antihidrorrhoidum" consists substantially of a chemical combination
of ether and chlorine gas combined with a mixture of muriatic acid, alcohol and
glycerine, and is produced as follows, reference being had to the accompanying
drawing.
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All the parts of the ingredients hereinafter mentioned are parts "by weight;"
and the words "more or less" are supposed to stand after the words "by weight."
A is a flask containing 100 parts of butyrate of soda and 100 parts of acetate of
soda (C, H, O, Na) mixed with 160 parts of highly-rectified alcohol (alcohol of 90°)
and 280 parts of sulphuric acid. This mixture is distilled and the vapours of
butyric ether (ethyl butyrate C H₁₂ O₂) and acetic ether (ethyl acetate C, H, O₂
C, H.) thus obtained are conducted through the tube a into the glass-vessel B
where they meet with a current of chlorine gas which enters through pipe c from
another flask C containing 450 parts of pyrolusite (peroxide of manganese), 450
parts of common salt, and 1000 parts of sulphuric acid for the purpose of
generating the said chlorine gas in the usual manner.
The distillation of the said ethers should be conducted in such a manner as to
cause them to enter the said vessel B in a slowly moving current, the said vessel
being kept constantly filled with the said chlorine gas from the flask C. Care
should also be taken that during the commencement of the operation the mixture
of chlorine gas, and the butyric and acetic ethers are subjected to the direct action of
sun-light, since only under this condition can the gases be caused to enter into a
chemical combination and thus to be transformed into a liquid state. The process
being once started the direct action of the sun-light is not required, as the conden-
sation of the said gases within the vessel B will continue quietly and the liquid
product will drop from the said vessel through the connecting tube b into the

page_text: receptacle D. This receptacle is about three fourths filled with a mixture of
3760 parts of concentrated muriatic acid, 120 parts of highly-rectified alcohol
(of 90°), and 120 parts of glycerine.
The process is completed and the operation stopped as soon as the condensation
within the vessel B commences to decrease, and chlorine gas only to leave the lower
tube b.
The contents collected within the said receptacle C are then thoroughly mixed
together by shaking the latter, and the resulting mixture is coloured light red by
adding some litmus. The mixture is then put into green or brown bottles and
tightly closed, and constitutes the novel preparation Antihidrorrhoidum.
This preparation is applied externally to the human body in the form of local
baths, and may be used in its original concentrated form, or, particularly if the
bath be applied to the whole body, diluted by adding a suitable quantity of water.
It acts favourably upon the sympathetic fibres of the nerves, regulating the tension
of the blood-vessels, and thus regulates the perspiration in a manner well known.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
First. The compound for preventing abnormal perspiration of the human body;
consisting of chlorinated ether (ether combined with chlorine gas) in combination
with muriatic acid, alcohol and glycerine, substantially as, and for the purpose,
specified.
Second. The process of producing a compound for preventing abnormal perspira-
tion of the human body, consisting in combining ether and chlorine gas to form a
liquid chemical product, within a receptacle which contains a surplus of the said
chlorine gas, and mixing the said liquid thus obtained with a mixture of concen-
trated muriatic acid, alcohol and glycerine, substantially as, and for the purpose,
specified.
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