AN IMPROVED PROCESS OF TREATING CERTAIN MATERIALS FOR OBTAINING THEREFROM AN IMPROVED COMPOUND OR MIXTURE FOR THE CURE OF NEURALOIA OR OTHER ANALOGOUS COMPLAINTS."
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Francis Mills, of Notting Hill, in the County of
Middlesex, for an Invention of "AN IMPROVED PROCESS OF TREATING
CERTAIN MATERIALS FOR OBTAINING THEREFROM AN IMPROVED COMPOUND
OR MIXTURE FOR THE CURE OF NEURALOIA OR OTHER ANALOGOUS
COMPLAINTS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Francis Mills at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 4th January 1882.
HENRY FRANCIS MILLS of Notting Hill in the County of Middlesex.
" AN
IMPROVED PROCESS OF TREATING CERTAIN MATERIALS FOR OBTAINING THERE
FROM AN IMPROVED COMPOUND OR MIXTURE FOR THE CURE OF NEURALGIA OR
OTHER ANALOGOUS COMPLAINTS."
The object of my Invention is to cure neuralgia and other analogous complaints.
With this object I take hops as they are known on the market, and cloves. These
are boiled together in water in such proportions as I may deem expedient or 1 can
boil the hops in water by themselves. This mixture is then strained and camphor
and sal ammoniac and other similar substance or any one or more of them are
added to the boiling mixture which is then allowed to cool and is ready for use.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Henry Francis Mills in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
10th June 1882.
HENRY FRANCIS MILLS of Notting Hill in the County of Middlesex.
AN
IMPROVED PROCESS OF TREATING CERTAIN MATERIALS FOR OBTAINING THERE
FROM AN IMPROVED COMPOUND OR MIXTURE FOR THE CURE OF NEURALGIA OR
OTHER ANALOGOUS COMPLAINTS."
This compound or mixture consists of the materials hereinafter mentioned
which are treated in the manner described. I take two ounces of hops and place
them in two quarts of water. This is boiled for a period of one hour and the
decoction is then strained off. I reduce to powder four ounces of camphor. To
assist this process I put twelve drops of spirits of wine to each ounce of camphor.
The powdered camphor is then placed in a vessel and one quart of water is added.
The vessel I prefer to use for this purpose is a glazed earthenware jar. This jar or
other vessel containing the camphor and water is then placed in a saucepan or
other suitable vessel containing water and is boiled therein until the camphor is
entirely dissolved. I also take eight ounces of sal ammoniac and place them in one
quart of cold water and I stir this water until the sal ammoniac is entirely
dissolved. This solution of sal ammoniac is mixed with the decoction of hops and
the decoction of camphor herein before described while these two decoctions are
warm. The compound or mixture is then allowed to cool. It will suffice that the
hops and the camphor and the spirits of wine and the sal ammoniac hereinbefore
mentioned are such as are usually described and known by those names but I
prefer to use the best and purest that can conveniently be gotten. This compound
or mixture is ready for use when cold and may be taken and applied both internally
and externally. For the internal use thereof I should take one teaspoonful at
intervals of from five to seven minutes until the pain is removed. One dose will
oftentimes be found sufficient. For the external application of the compound the
parts affected may be bathed in the same or the mixture may be rubbed in until
the desired effect is produced. In severe cases I should employ both the internal
and external methods of use hereinbefore described. This treatment as aforesaid
will be found to entirely remove the pain of neuralgia or other analogous complaints
and it is obvious that this remedy may be used by the most delicate persons and
as frequently as may be necessary for there are no deleterious ingredients
therein.
Having thus described my Invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed and used I claim as my Invention,
1. The compound or mixture herein before described.
2. The combination of the materials afore mentioned which materials have been
previously to the combination thereof treated in the manner or by the process
described for the purpose hereinbefore mentioned.
3. The application of this compound. or mixture to the cure of neuralgia or other
analogous complaints substantially as and in the manner herein before described and
declared.
In witness whereof I the said Henry Francis Mills have hereunto set my
hand and seal this Thirtieth day of May in the year of our Lord One
thousand sight hundred and eighty twa
HENRY FRANCIS MILLS. (L.S.)