REMOVING SPAVINS, RINGBONES, CURBS, SPLENTS, AND OTHER UN- NATURAL OSSIFICATIONS AND HUMOURS FROM HORSES, WHICH INVENTION HE NAMES MAJOR'S CELEBRATED BRITISH REMEDY.
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Major, of No. 13, Elizabeth Place,
Balls Pond Road, near Kingsland Gate, in the Parish of Saint
Mary, Islington, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of
"REMOVING SPAVINS, RINGBONES, CURBS, SPLENTS, AND OTHER UN-
NATURAL OSSIFICATIONS AND HUMOURS FROM HORSES, WHICH INVENTION
HE NAMES MAJOR'S CELEBRATED BRITISH REMEDY.'"
Sealed the 16th February 1853, and dated the 14th October 1852.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Major
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 14th October 1852.
I, JOSEPH MAJOR, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention;
for "REMOVING SPAVINS, RINGBONES, CURBS, SPLENTS, AND OTHER UNNATURAL
OSSIFICATIONS AND HUMOURS FROM HORSES, WHICH INVENTION I NAME:
MAJOR'S CELEBRATED BRITISH REMEDY," ", and describe as follows, that is;
to say:
By a combination of certain drugs or ingredients an embrocation is
formed, which is applied in a liquid state, and without causing any pain

page_text: to the animal; its beneficial effects are seen in six or twelve hours
after having been applied. It proceeds decomposing the ossification or
disease, while it gives a healthy action to the sound parts, and entirely
removes the exostosis, and restores the diseased limb to perfect sound-
ness. Thus those torturous instruments hitherto used in treating the
forenamed diseases of the horse are rendered unnecessary, and its per-
manent cure placed beyond a doubt, as I can prove by numerous
palpable facts.
The embrocation consists of oil of rosemary, oil of lavender, Barba-
does tar, senecio oil, Venice turpentine, spirits of turpentine, and
sulphuric acid combined in a manner that has rendered their use
marvelously successful.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Joseph Major in the Great Seal Patent Office,
on the 14th April 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
JOSEPH MAJOR, of No. 13, Elizabeth Place, Balls Pond Road, near
Kingsland Gate, in the Parish of Saint Mary, Islington, in the County
of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Ietters Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of October, in the
year of our Lord. One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in the
sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Joseph Major, Her special
licence that I, the said Joseph Major, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph Major, my exc-
cutors, 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 "REMOVING
SPAVINS, RINGBONES, CURBS, SPLENTS, AND OTHER UNNATURAL OSSIFI-

page_text: CATIONS AND HUMOURS FROM HORSES, WHICH INVENTION HE NAMES MAJOR'S
CELEBRATED BRITISH REMEDY," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Joseph Major, by an instrument 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 Joseph Major, 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 thereof (that is to say):
My Invention consists of combining the ingredients or matters here-
after mentioned, and I prefer that they should be combined in the
proportions hereafter stated.
Fourteen parts by weight of senica oil, which is an oil well known
and sold by chemists in America, but I am not aware whether it is to
be readily obtained from chemists in Great Britain, but the same may
be imported from America; four parts by weight of Barbadoes tar;
five parts by weight of oil of rosemary; three parts by weight of oil of
lavender; six parts by weight of spirits of turpentine; three parts by
weight of Venice turpentine.
These matters or ingredients are to be intimately mixed together and
placed in an earthenware vessel, and then sixteen parts by weight
of sulphuric acid are to be stirred in gradually; and when the effer-
vescence has subsided the preparation is complete, and I call the
same "Major's Celebrated British Remedy" for the cure of diseases
known as ringbones, spavins, curbs, splents, and other unnatural
ossifications and humours in horses.
In applying this remedy the hair is to be cut from the parts, and
care is to be taken during the application that the parts should be kept
dry during at least ten days, as wet injures the effect of the medicine,
and the animal should not be worked for two or three weeks.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner
of performing the same, I would have it understood that although I

page_text: have been particular in describing the exact proportions of the mate-
rials or ingredients, I do not confine myself thereto. But what I claim
is, the combination herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Major, have hereunto set
my
hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
Witness,.
B. GOBEY.
JOSEPH MAJOR. (L.S.)