AN IMPROVED TONIC PREPARATION OF LIQUID EXTRACT OF BEEF OR MEAT
Year: 1874

page_text: ETTERS PATENT to Edward Theodore Digby, and Christopher Gandy,
and William Foyl, the younger, and Edward Barry Allinson James,
constituting the Firm of Digby, Gandy, and Company, of Liverpool,
in the County of Lancaster, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
TONIC PREPARATION OF LIQUID EXTRACT OF BEEF OR MEAT."-Partly a
communication from abroad by Joseph James Livesey, of Montreal,
in the Dominion of Canada.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Theodore
Digby, Christopher Gandy, William Foyl, and Edward Barry
Allinson James at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 13th August 1874.
We, EDWARD THEODORE DIGBY, and CHRISTOPHER GANDY, and
WILLIAM FOYL, the younger, and EDWARD BARRY ALLINSON JAMES,
constituting the Firm of Digby, Gandy, and Company, of Liverpool, in
the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of the said

page_text: Invention for "AN IMPROVED TONIC PREPARATION OF LIQUID EXTRACT OF BEEF
OR MEAT," (a communication), to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to a combination of certain ingredients with
liquid extract of beef, resulting in a compound to be used as a tonic
and nutritious cordial, and of great bencfit in certain cases such as
consumption, and all species of debility.
The ingredients of the improved tonic preparation of liquid extract of
beef or meat are wine or other alcoholic liquor, glycerine, and extract of
beef or meat (which may be prepared in manner similar to the Licbig
system), syrup, quinine, or tincture of Peruvian bark, flavouring
consisting of nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon, or other suitable spices.
In concocting a tonic preparation according to this Invention, the
following proportions of the before-mentioned ingredients are found to
give a satisfactory result, and constitute the preparation made according
to this Invention :-Two pounds of solid beef extract dissolved in one half
gallon of wine or other suitable alcoholic liquor, to which is added five
pounds glycerine and two pints of tincture of Peruvian bark, made of
one half pound ground bark to three pints of alcohol, or quinine may be
used, two gallons of syrup and a pint of flavouring composed of one
.ounce ground nutmegs, one ounce ground cloves, and one ounce ground
cinnamon with alcohol, the whole mixed with about thirty gallons of
wine or other suitable alcoholic liquor. The whole constitutes a pre-
paration of invaluable properties for sustaining life, the extract of meat
being nutritious, and the tonic and other ingredients being invigorating
and making the preparation palatable.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edward Theodore Digby, Christopher Gandy,
William Foyl, and Edward Barry Allinson James in the Great Scal
Patent Office on the 12th February 1875.

page_text: of Digby, Gandy, and Company, of Liverpool, in the County of
Lancaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most. Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Edward Theodore Digby, and
Christopher Gandy, and William Foyl, the younger, and Edward Barry
Allinson James, Her special licence that we, the said Edward Theodore
Digby, and Christopher Gandy, and William Foyl, the younger, and
Edward Barry Allinson James, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said Edward Theodore Digby and
Christopher Gandy, and William Foy), the younger, and Edward Barry
Allinson James, our 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 Inven-
tion for "AN IMPROVED TONIC PREPARATION OF LIQUID EXTRACT OF BEEF OR
MEAT," partly our own Invention and partly the result of a communi-
cation to us from abroad by Josephi James Levesey, of Montreal, in the
Dominion of Canada, upon the condition (amongst others) that we,
the said Edward Theodore Digby, and Christopher Gandy, and William
Foyl, the younger, and Edward Barry Allinson James, our exccutors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, 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 Scal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date.
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Edward Theodore Digby, and
Christopher Gandy, and William Foyl, the younger, and Edward Barry
Allinson James, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
:―
This Invention relates to a combination of certain ingredients with
liquid extract of beef resulting in a compound to be used as a tonic and.

page_text: nutritious cordial, and of great benefit in certain cases such as con-
sumption and all species of debility.
The ingredients of the improved tonic preparation of liquid extract of
beef or meat are wine, or other alcoholic liquor, glycerine and extract of
beef or meat (which may be prepared in manner similar to the Liebig
system), syrup, quinine, or tincture of Peruvian Bark, flavouring con-
sisting of nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon, or other suitable spices.
In concocting a tonic preparation according to this Invention, the
following proportions of the before-mentioned ingredients are found to
give a satisfactory result, and constitute the preparation made according.
to this Invention. Two pounds of solid beef extract dissolved in one.
half gallon of wine or other suitable alcoholic liquor, to which is added
five pounds of glycerine, and two pints of tincture of Peruvian bark,
made of one half pound ground bark to three pints of alcohol, or
quinine may be used. Two gallons of syrup, and one pint of flavouring
composed of one ounce ground nutmegs, one ounce ground cloves, and
one ounce ground cinnamon with alcohol. The whole mixed with about
thirty gallons of wine or other suitable alcoholic liquor. The whole
constitutes a preparation of invaluable properties for sustaining life; the.
extract of meat being nutritious and the tonic and other ingredients
haine in miceonotince and making the nuonovation naletnohla

page_text: xtract of beef or meat as described and ascertained in the before-going
Specification.
In witness whereof, we, the said Edward Theodore Digby, and
Christopher Gandy, and Edward Barry Allinson James, on behalf
of ourselves and the said William Foyl, the younger, have here-
unto set our hands and seals, this Eighth day of February,
in the year of our Lord 1875.