THE CURE OF FOOT & MOUTH DISEASE, FOOT ROT, AND SIMILAR DISORDERS IN CATTLE, SHEEP, & OTHER ANIMALS
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Decimus Inglett Foulkes, of 1, King's
Bench Walk, Temple, London, Barrister-at-Law, for the Invention
of "THE CURE OF FOOT & MOUTH DISEASE, FOOT ROT, AND SIMILAR DISORDERS
IN CATTLE, SHEEP, & OTHER ANIMALS."-A communication from abroad
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Decimus
Inglett Foulkes at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with his Petition, on the 25th August 1875.
I, WILLIAM DECIMUS INGLETT FOULKES, of 1, King's Bench Walk,
Temple, London, Barrister at Law, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "THE CURE OF FOOT & MOUTH DISEASE, FOOT ROT, AND
SIMILAR DISORDERS IN CATTLE, SHEEP, & OTHER ANIMALS," to be as follows:-
The Invention consists in the external application to the part of the
animal affected by the disease of the essential oil called oil citronelle,
otherwise citronella oil, otherwise zoacea.
One mode of applying it is in its pure state by painting the part
affected with a brush or feather, so that the part affected is always;

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Decimus Inglett Foulkes in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 25th February 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
DECIMUS INGLETT FOULKES, of No. 1, King's Bench Walk, Temple,
London, Barrister-at-Law, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of August, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-ninth year of. Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said William Decimus Inglett
Foulkes, Her special licence that I, the said William Decimus Inglett
Foulkes, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said William Decimus Inglett Foulkes, my executors, admini-
strators, 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 "THE CURE OF FOOT AND
MOUTH DISEASE, FOOT ROT, AND SIMILAR DISORDERS IN CATTLE, SHEEP, AND OTHER
ANIMALS," a communication to me from abroad by Stephen Weston
Foulkes, of Geekeane, Kande, Caltura, Ceylon, upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said William Decimus Inglett Foulkes,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, 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 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 William Decimus Inglett Foulkes,
do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement, that is to say :-
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page_text: The Invention consists in the cure of foot and mouth disease in all
animals, and of foot rot in sheep by means of the essential oil called oil
citronelle, otherwise citronella oil, otherwise zoacea.
Immediately on the first symptoms of foot and mouth disease being
discovered the animals affected should in the manner already in use be
separated from the animals not affected, and the feet, lips, mouth,
tongue, and other parts in which the disease appears must be dressed with
the oil from time to time so as to keep the part moistened until the
animal is cured. I find it sufficient to dress the parts three times a day.
In dressing the tongue, mouth, lips, and such parts the oil is best
applied with a soft brush or feather. In dressing the feet and such
parts the oil must be mixed with common coal tar or a similar adhesive
substance in the proportion (say) of one-half oil to one-half tar.
For the cure of foot rot the sheep may be treated in the same way as
in the case of foot and mouth disease. If the lips or other parts are
in either case blistered by the application a little sweet oil may be
applied.
The above is the best method of applying the oil according to my
experience, but it is obvious that it may be mixed with other ingredients,
and applied in other forms so long as the citronelle oil is used, which is
the essence of my Invention.
The oil may also be applied with advantage in cases of rheumatism
and sores and similar disorders in human beings and other animals.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Decimus Inglett Foulkes,
have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day
of February, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and seventy-six.
Witness,
0
W. D. I. FOULKES. (L.S.)
THEOPHILUS PEARCE,
Clerk to the above-named Mr. Foulkes,
1, King's Bench Walk,
Temple,
London.