AN IMPROVED COMPOUND FOR CURING DISORDERS OF THE BOWELS, CHOLERA, DIARRHOEA AND DYSENTERY
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Sleight, of 51, Mill Street, Hull, in the
County of York, Herbalist and Druggist, for the Invention of "AN
IMPROVED COMPOUND FOR CURING DISORDERS OF THE BOWELS, CHOLERA,
DIARRHOEA AND DYSENTERY."
Sealed the 8th February 1856, and dated the 9th August 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Sleight at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 9th
August 1855.
I, THOMAS SLEIGHT, of 51, Mill Street, Hull, in the County of York,
Herbalist and Druggist, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "AN IMPROVED COMPOUND FOR CURING DISORDERS OF THE BOWELS, CHOLERA,
DIARRHEA, AND DYSENTERY," to be as follows:-
In manufacturing my improved medicinal compound, I take the apple of the
pinus picea, or silver fir tree, and pulverize it, and I add thereto oil of cassia,
oil of peppermint, oil of cloves, or their equivalents, prepared with spirits of
wine. To this mixture I add tincture of opium diluted with water, and thus
complete the compound.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Sleight in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
9th February 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
SLEIGHT, of 51, Mill Street, in the Town and County of the Town of
Kingston-upon-Hull, in the County of York, Herbalist and Druggist, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Ier Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Thomas Sleight, Her special license that I, the said Thomas Sleight, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Thomas
Sleight, 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 for "AN IMPROVED COMPOUND FOR
CURING DISORDERS OF THE BOWELS, CHOLERA, DIARRHEA, AND DYSENTERY," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Thomas Sleight, by an instru-
ment 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Sleight, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (that is to say):-
My Invention of "An Improved Compound for Curing Disorders of the
Bowels, Cholera, Diarrhoea, and Dysentery," consists in manufacturing a
medicinal compound from the following materials, viz, the apple of the pinus
picea, or silver fir tree, which must be pulverized, and to it I add a certain
quantity of the essential oils of cassia, of peppermint, of cloves, and of nutmeg,
or of their equivalents, dissolved in spirits of wine. To this mixture I add
tincture of opium diluted with water, and thus complete the compound. These
materials may be compounded together in various proportions. I do not there-
fore intend to limit myself to any precise proportions; but the combination and

page_text: proportion of parts of the several ingredients which I have found to answer in
practice, and therefore recommend, are the following, viz:--I take of the
pulverized apple of the pinus picea, or the silver fir tree, two drams, and add
thereto three drops of each of the essential oils of cassia or cinnamon, and of
peppermint, cloves, and of nutmegs; I then add one dram of spirits of wine,
or alcohol, in order to dissolve the essential oils, and add one dram of tincture
of opium. This mixture should be reduced to a proper strength to be admi-
nistered when required by the addition of eight ounces of water. About one
ounce of this mixture may be taken from time to time when required, and
may be continued until the pain or symptoms of derangement of the system
abate, and appear to yield to the influence of the medicine.
Having now described my Invention of an improved compound for curing
disorders of the bowels, and explained the best means with which I am
acquainted for carrying the same into effect, I claim, in conclusion, the com-
bination of ingredients above set forth, particularly the employment for the
purposes above mentioned of the apple of the pinus, or the silver fir tree.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Sleight, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Sixth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
THOMAS SLEIGHT. (L.S.)