AN IMPROVED PREPARATION FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF DISEASE-BACTERIA OR MICROZYMES IN MAN OR BEAST
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Sonstadt of Cheshunt, in the County of
Hertfordshire, for an Invention of AN IMPROVED PREPARATION FOR THE
DESTRUCTION OF DISEASE-BACTERIA OR MICROZYMES IN MAN OR BEAST
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Sonstadt at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 16th October 1883.
EDWARD SONSTADT, of Cheshunt, in the County of Hertfordshire, ." AN IMPROVED
PREPARATION FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF DISEASE-BACTERIA OR MICROZYMES IN
MAN OR BEAST
"
The essential features of my invention consist, first, in preventing liability to
the formation of mould in a solution containing calcium iodate, by addition thereto
of a salt of salicylic acid, preferably sodium or potassium salicylate; second, in
increasing the solubility of calcium iodate by mixture thereof with sodium or
potassium citrate; by adding calcium iodate to a solution of sodium or potassium
citrate as long as it dissolves; or by adding successively and repeatedly calcium
iodate and the citrate to water until a solution is obtained either saturated, or
approaching as near to saturation as may be desired; and third, in combining the
features of the first and second parts of my invention by aiding the solution of
calcium iodate by addition of an alkali metal citrate as described, and dissolving
in such solution some sodium or potassium salicylate, thus obtaining a mould-proof
and relatively strong solution.
In papers contributed to the "Chemical News" in A.D. 1872, I have shewn that
calcium iodate is powerfully antiseptic, and that it acts by killing the minute
organisms or microzymes, capable of inducing putrefactive changes, with which it
may be brought in contact. My recent experiments indicate that calcium iodate,
although non-poisonous to man or beast, is as effective in destroying disease-
bacteria or bacilli as my older researches proved it to be in killing putrefactive
microzvmes

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For the destruction of disease-bacilli or microzymes in the organs of respiration,
a solution is made of calcium iodate to which sodium or potassium salicylate is
added, as under the first head of the invention, to which solution chinoline tartrate
and sometimes glycerin, may with advantage be added; and air charged with the
spray of such solution is inhaled by the patient. An ordinary "spray producer
may be employed; or the solution may be placed in an "inhaler" furnished with
inlet tube passing below the surface of the liquid, and outlet tube through which
air is drawn. Cattle suffering from pleuro-pneumonia, or other disease of the
respiratory organs, may be caused to breathe air charged with spray of the solution
in any convenient way; or the breathing may be caused to take place through a
fibrous screen or cloth kept moistened with the solution; or the nostrils may be
sponged with the same. In severe cases it may be advisable to use the above
solution increased in strength by addition of a further dose of calcium iodate,
brought into solution by the introduction of an alkali metal citrate, as previously
described.
In the treatment of sores, ulcers, cutaneous eruptions, bites of rabid animals, or
external wounds of any kind, I prefer to employ one or other of the stronger
solutions described under the second and third heads of the invention.
In cases of Asiatic cholera, typhoid fever, and other diseases in which the
alimentary canal is charged with disease-bacteria, injections may be used of either
the weaker or stronger solution described; or calcium iodate conjoined with sodium
salicylate, and with or without a citrate and chinoline salt, may be administered
internally, made up as pills or lozenges, or in draughts or other convenient form.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Edward Sonstadt in the Patent Office on the 16th April 1884.
EDWARD SONSTADT, of Cheshunt, in the County of Hertfordshire, "AN IMPROVED
PREPARATION FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF DISEASE-BACTERIA OR MICROZYMES IN
MAN OR BEAST
"
The essential features of my invention consist:-First. In preventing liability
to the formation of mould in a solution containing calcium iodate, by addition
thereto of a salt of salicylic acid, preferably sodium or potassium salicylate.
Second. In increasing the solubility of calcium iodate by mixture thereof with
sodium or potassium citrate; by adding calcium iodate to a solution of sodium or
potassium citrate as long as it dissolves; or by adding successively and repeatedly
calcium iodate and the citrate to water until a solution is obtained either saturated,
or approaching as near to saturation as may be desired. And, third. In combining
the features of the first and second parts of my invention by aiding the solution of
calcium iodate by addition of an alkali metal citrate as described, and dissolving in
such solution some sodium or potassium salicylate, thus obtaining a mould-proof
and relatively strong solution.
In papers contributed to the "Chemical News" in A.D. 1872, I have shown that
calcium iodate is powerfully antiseptic, and that it acts by killing the minute
organisms or microzymes, capable of inducing putrefactive changes, with which it
may be brought in contact. My recent experiments indicate that calcium iodate,
although non-poisonous to man or beast, is as effective in destroying disease-
bacteria or bacilli as my older researches proved it to be in killing putrefactive
microzymes.
For the destruction of disease-bacilli or microzymes in the organs of respiration,
a solution is made of calcium iodate to which sodium or potassium salicylate is
added, as under the first head of the invention, to which solution chinoline tartrate
and sometimes glycerine, may with advantage be added; and air charged with the
spray of such solution is inhaled by the patient. An ordidary "spray producer"
may be employed; or the solution may be placed in an "inhaler" furnished with
inlet tube passing below the surface of the liquid, and outlet tube through which
air is drawn. Cattle suffering from pleuro-pneumonia, or other disease of the
respiratory organs, may be caused to breathe air charged with spray of the solution
in any convenient way; or the breathing may be caused to take place through a
fibrous screen or cloth kept moistened with the solution; or the nostrils may be
sponged with the same. In severe cases it may be advisable to use the above
solution increased in strength by addition of a further dose of calcium iodate,
brought into solution by the introduction of an alkali metal citrate, as previously
described.
In the treatment of sores, ulcers, cutaneous eruptions, bites of rabid animals, or
external wounds of any kind, I prefer to employ one or other of the stronger
solutions described under the second and third heads of the invention.
In cases of Asiatic cholera, typhoid fever, and other diseases in which the
alimentary canal is charged with disease-bacteria, injections may be used of either
the weaker or the stronger solution described; or calcium iodate conjoined with
sodium salicylate and with or without a citrate and chinoline salt, may be
administered internally, made up as pills or lozenges or in draughts or other
convenient form.
Throughout this specification a "solution" is meant to be understood as an
aqueous solution.

page_text: Having thus described the nature of my said invention and in what manner
the same is to be carried into effect, I wish it to be understood that what
I claim is
1. The method of preventing the formation of mould in a solution of calcium
iodate by the addition thereto of a salt of salicylic acid, substantially as described.
2nd. The preparation of a solution of calcium iodate of increased strength over
and above a saturated solution in pure water, by the addition of sodium or
potassium citrate, substantially as described.
3. The preparation of a solution of calcium iodate both strong and mould-
proof, by the addition to the solution of the substances described in the two
preceding claims, substantially as specified.
4th. The production of dry preparations containing the same ingredients as any
of the solutions described in the preceding claims for use as internal medicine, and
external curative applications, substantially as described.
5th. The combination of chinoline tartrate with the improved solutions described
in claims 1, 2 and 3, with or without the addition of glycerine, substantially as
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Sonstadt, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Sixteenth day of April in the year of Our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and eighty-four.