IMPROVED MEANS OF ADMINISTERING MEDICINES TO HORSES, Dogs, AND ANIMALS
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Durant, of the City and County of Bristol,
Dealer in Druggist Sundries, for the Invention of "IMPROVED
MEANS OF ADMINISTERING MEDICINES TO HORSES, Dogs, AND
ANIMALS."
OTHER
Sealed the 20th January 1874, and dated the 27th August 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Durant at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
27th August 1878.
I, JOHN DURANT, of the City and County of Bristol, Dealer in
Druggist Sundries, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVED MEANS OF ADMINISTERING MEDICINES TO HORSES, DOGS, AND OTHER
ANIMALS," to be as follows:-
0'
My Invention relates to an improved means of administering specific
medecines to horses, dogs, and other animals, and consists in a gelatinous
or membraneous capsuleor envelope in which such medicine is enclosed.

page_text: This capsule or envelope, when filled with the said specific is scaled
hermetically, and thus serves also as a means of preserving the full
strength and virture of the medicine for any length of time, an object
not attained by the present method of making medicinal balls.
The gelatinous capsule may be made wholly of gelatine or of a com-
bination of gelatine with another substance or substances, such as
glycerine for instance, in order to give flexibility to the envelope if
desired.
The gelatinous envelope is made by dipping a metallic mould into the
liquid gelatine or gelatinous composition and afterwards filling the
envelope so formed with the solid or liquid medicines, and hermetically
sealing the envelope.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said John Durant in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 27th February 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
DURANT, of the City and County of Bristol, Dealer in Druggist Sundries,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said John Durant, Her special licence
that I, the said John Durant, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said John Durant, 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 "IMPROVED MEANS OF ADMINISTERING
MEDICINES TO HORSES, DOGS, AND OTHER ANIMALS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said John Durant, my executors or admini-
strators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their

page_text: hands and seals should particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be per-
formed, 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 John Durant, 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) :—
My Invention relates to an improved means of administering specific
medicines to horses, dogs, and other animals, and consists in a gelatinous
or membraneous capsule or envelope in which such medicine is enclosed.
This capsule or envelope, when filled with the said specific, is sealed
hermetically, and thus serves also as a means of preserving the full
strength and virtue of the medicine for any length of time, an object
not obtained by the present method of making medicinal balls. The
medicine may either be a liquid or in a state of powder.
The gelatinous capsule may be made wholly of gelatine or of a com-
bination of gelatine with another substance or substances, such as
glycerine, for instance, in order to give flexibility to the envelope if
desired.
I find oz. of glycerine added to every 1 lb. of gelatine in a warm
state to answer well. The proportion of glycerine may, however, be
varied according to the degree of flexibility required.
The gelatinous envelope is made by dipping an oiled metallic mould
into the liquid gelatine or gelatinous composition, the envelope so formed
after hardening being filled with the dry or liquid medicines. The
envelope is then hermetically sealed by dropping some melted gelatine
into the orifice and so capping the same.
When using a membraneous envelope, gut skin after being prepared by
cleansing and acids is stretched in a moistened condition on an oiled bulb
of glass or metal to form an envelope, which is then filled with the
medicine and tied in the ordinary way.
Having described the nature of the Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I declare that what I claim as the Invention to be

page_text: protected by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the use
of a gelatinous or membraneous capsule or envelope for enclosing and
administering specific medicines in a liquid or powdered state to horses,
dogs, and other animals, substantially as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Durant, have hereunto set t
my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.