IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PILLS FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES
Year: 1874

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LETTERS PATENT to William Darlow and Henry Fairfax, of West
Strand, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "Im-
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Darlow and
Henry Fairfax at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 22nd December 1874.
WC, WILLIAM DARLOW and HENRY FAIRFAX, of West Strand, in the
County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PILLS FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES,"
to be as follows:-
It is a well-known fact that the application of magnetism to any part
of the human body promotes, assists, and increases its chemical action
at that part. The question has therefore hitherto been how can the
magnetic force be applied so as to act directly on the internal tissues of
the body, seeing that all the applications of magnetism have been
external.

page_text: Now, according to our Invention, we propose to make pills of a per-
manently magnetic compound in the manner herein-after described, and
capable of infusing the magnetic power directly on the inmost tissues of
the stomach or internal parts of the body.
Our Invention consists in incorporating with any convenient pill, 5
mass, or compound magnetic oxide of iron or steel, or any compound or
mixture of iron, steel, or other substance capable of being magnetized.
The pills are then made up in the ordinary way, and are afterwards
magnetized by passing them through a helix of copper wire, through
which an electric current is passing, or by any of the other known 1
methods of magnetization.
In carrying out our Invention in practice we prefer to usc powdered
or precipitated magnetic oxide of iron incorporated in a pill with gum
arabic, or with aloes and gamboge, so as to make a "magnetic antibilious
pill," or to incorporate powdered or precipitated magnetic oxide of iron 1
with sulphate or citrate of quinine, or with powdered quer citron bark,
so as to make a "magnetic tonic pill."
For plain magnetic pills we prefer to use four parts of precipitated
magnetic oxide of iron to six parts of gum arabic mixed and beat or
compounded into a proper mass, and divided into five-grain pills, and 2
to be afterwards magnetized in the manner before described.
For magnetic antibilious pills we prefer to use four parts of preci-
pitated magnetic oxide of iron, three parts of gamboge, two parts of
Barbadoes aloes, and three parts of gum arabic mixed and beat or com-
pounded into a proper mass, and divided into five-grain pills, and to be 2
afterwards magnetized in the manner before described.
For magnetic tonic pills we prefer to use eight parts of precipitated
magnetic oxide of iron, one part of sulphate of quinine, four parts of
quer citron bark, and fourteen parts of gum arabic mixed and beat or
compounded into a proper mass, and divided into five-grain pills, and 3
afterwards magnetized in the manner before described.
We do not restrict ourselves to the exact proportions of the ingre-
dients or substances above mentioned, as it may sometimes be necessary
to vary the same.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Darlow and Henry Fairfax in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 21st June 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WIL-
LIAM DARLOW and HENRY FAIRFAX, of West Strand, in the County of
Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of December, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in
the thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto us, the said William Darlow and
Henry Fairfax, Her special licence that we, the said William
Darlow and Henry Fairfax, our exccutors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said William Darlow and
Henry Fairfax, our 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PILLS FOR MEDICINAL
PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said
William Darlow and Henry Fairfax, our executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under our, or one of our or their, or one
of their hands and scals, 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 Scal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the dato
of the said Letters Patent.
BAD

page_text: magnetic force be applied so as to act directly on the internal tissues of
the body, seeing that all the applications of magnetism have been
external.
Now, according to our Invention, we propose to make pills of a per-
manently magnetic compound in the manner herein-after described, and
capable of infusing the magnetic power directly on the inmost tissues of.
the stomach or internal parts of the body.
Our Invention consists in incorporating with any convenient pill, mass,.
or compound magnetic oxide of iron or steel, or any compound or mix-
ture of iron, steel, or other substance capable of being magnetized.
The pills are then made up in the ordinary way, and are afterwards
magnetized by passing them through a helix of copper wire, through
which an clectric current is passing, or by any of the other known
methods of magnetization.
In carrying out our Invention in practice we prefer to use powdered.
or precipitated magnetic oxide of iron incorporated in a pill with gum
arabic, or with aloes and gamboge, so as to make a magnetic antibilious
pill, or to incorporate powdered or precipitated magnetic oxide of iron
with sulphate or citrate of quinine or with powdered quer citron bark,
so to make a magnetic tonic pill.
For plain magnetic pills we prefer to use four parts of precipitated
magnetic oxide of iron to six parts of gum arabic mixed and beat or
compounded into a proper mass, and divided into five-grain pills, and to
be afterwards magnetized in the manner before described.
For magnetic antibilious pills we prefer to use four parts of precipi-
tated magnetic oxide of iron, three parts of gamboge, two parts of
Barbadoes aloes, and three parts of gum arabic mixed and beat or com-
pounded into a proper mass, and divided into five-grain pills, and to be
afterwards magnetized in the manner before described.
For magnetic tonic pills we prefer to use eight parts of precipitated
magnetic oxide of iron, one part of sulphate of quinine, four parts of
quer citron bark, and fourteen parts of gum arabic mixed and beat or
compounded into a proper mass, and divided into five-grain pills, and
afterwards magnetized in the manner before described.

page_text: We do not restrict ourselves to the exact proportions of the ingredients
or substances above mentioned, as it may sometimes be necessary to
vary the same.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature and
object of our said Invention, together with the manner in which the
same is to be or may be performed or carried into practical effect, we
would remark in conclusion that we claim as our Invention, magnet-
izing pills containing magnetic iron or steel, or any of their compounds,
or other suitable matter capable of being rendered magnetic, substan-
tially in the manner as herein-before described and for the purposes set
forth.
In witness whereof, we, the said William Darlow and Henry
Fairfax, have hereunto set our hands and seals, the Twenty-first
day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and seventy-five.
WILLIAM DARLOW. (L.S.)
HENRY FAIRFAX.
(L.S.)