AN IMPROVED PREPARATION APPLICABLE TO THE HEALING OF WOUNDS AND SORES."
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Lowe, of Barnet, in the County of Herts, for an
Invention of "AN IMPROVED PREPARATION APPLICABLE TO THE HEALING
OF WOUNDS AND SORES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Lowe at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 21st July 1881.
GEORGE LOWE, of Barnet, in the County of Herts. "AN IMPROVED PREPARATION
APPLICABLE TO THE HEALING OF WOUNDS AND SORES."
My Invention relates to the manufacture of a medicinal product applicable as a
healing agent by treating the plant called "trigonella coerulea" substantially in
the manner hereinafter described, or by other suitable methods.
I gather the blooms of the trigonella coerulea belonging to the Leguminosæ sub-
order papilionaceae, and after drying the same in the sun subject them to
distillation. The distillate I combine with any approved fatty or oleaginous
matter, so as to form therewith a salve or unguent suitable for application to
wounds or tender parts of the body.
In preparing this compound I use by preference oil, and I effect a thorough
combination of the distillate with the oleaginous matter by stirring..
Another mode of preparing the ointment is to crush the plant, and to mix the
liquid thereby obtained with the fatty or oleaginous matter.
The proportions in which the juices of the plant and the distillate are combined
with the fatty or oleaginous matter may vary according to the use to which the
inèdicinal compound is to be applied.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said George Lowe in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 21st January
1882.
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GEORGE LOWE, of Barnet, in the County of Herts. "AN IMPROVED PREPARATION
APPLICABLE TO THE HEALING OF WOUNDS AND SORES."
My Invention relates to the manufacture of a medicinal product applicable as a
healing agent by treating the plant called trigonella coerulea substantially in the
manner hereinafter described, and to the combination of the extract derived there-
from with fatty or oleaginous matter.
I gather the flowers of the trigonella coerulea (belonging to the Leguminosa sub-
order papilionacece) when in full bloom, and dry the same on trays placed in the
sun. When the blooms are thoroughly dry I pack them in cases ready for use.
For preparing a healing oil according to this Invention I take, say, one pound
weight of the flowers, place the same in a glass jar, and pour in spirits of wine in
such quantity as will suffice to damp the flowers. I then close the jar hermetically
and put it aside for, say, from three or four days to a week, shaking it up
occasionally to ensure an equal distribution of the spirit through the mass. The
pound of flowers thus prepared I remove from the jar and discharge into a can
containing three gallons of pure olive oil, or thereabouts, taking care to mix them
thoroughly in the oil. This mixture I allow to stand for some three weeks, by
which time the essential oil of the flowers will have become absorbed into the
olive oil. I then by decantation remove the oil from the can and store it for use.
In preparing an ointment I vary somewhat the treatment of the flowers to
obtain an extract therefrom; thus after saturating the flowers with spirits of wine
in a closed vessel, I leave them for three weeks or a month, and then submit the
same to distillation. The product from the still I then mix intimately with lard or
other suitable fatty.matter, and the manufacture is complete.
The proportions which I have found to produce a good mixture are to one pound
of lard the distillate obtained from three ounces of flowers. The medicament,
whether prepared in a solid or liquid form, will be found to be very efficacious in
the healing of both wounds and sores.
Having now set forth the nature of my Invention of "An Improved Pre-
paration Applicable to the Healing of Wounds and Sores," and explained the
manner of carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that under the
above in part recited Letters Patent I claim,―
The combination with unctuous materials of the medicinal properties obtained
from the plant trigonnella coerulea, in the manner and for the purpose above set
forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Lowe, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, the Twentieth day of January in the year of our Lord. One thousand