A MEDICINE FOR THE CURE OF VENEREAL AFFECTIONS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Lewis Jacob Jordan, of Berner Street, in the
County of Middlesex, Gentleman, for the Invention of "A MEDICINE FOR
THE CURE OF VENEREAL AFFECTIONS."
Sealed the 20th March 1857, and dated the 9th October 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Lewis Jacob Jordan at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
9th October 1856.
I, LEWIS JACOB JORDAN, of Berner Street, in the County of Middlesex,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A
MEDICINE FOR THE CURE OF VENEREAL AFFECTIONS," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to a certain combination or to certain combinations
of the following ingredients or materials, as a medicine for the cure of
gonorrhoea, gleets, and all venereal affections and urethral discharges. To
prepare this medicine I use sulphate of zinc, nitrate of potash, tragacanth
powder, powdered henbane, tartarate of potash, bicarbonate of soda, and sugar,,
which I combine and use in certain proportions according to the stage or
character of the disease.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Lewis Jacob Jordan in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
9th April 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LEWIS
JACOB JORDAN, of Berner Street, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman,
send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Lewis Jacob Jordan, Her special licence that I, the said Lewis Jacob
Jordan, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Lewis Jacob Jordan, my 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 "A MEDICINE
FOR THE CURE OF VENEREAL AFFECTIONS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Lewis Jacob Jordan, 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 Lewis Jacob Jordan, 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:
My Invention of a medicine for the cure of venereal affections which I
denominate the "treisemar," relates to the combination of materials herein-
after determined, compounded and prepared in the form of a lozenge or other
convenient form for administering it to the patient.
It consists of a certain combination or certain combinations of the following
ingredients or materials as à medicine, which is applicable for the cure of
gonnorrhoea, gleets, and all venereal affections, urethral discharges, and
generative debility. To prepare this medicine I use sulphate of zinc, nitrate
of potash, tragacanth powder, powdered henbane, tartrate of potash, bicar-
bonate of soda, and sugar, which I combine and use in certain proportions.
The proportions subjoined are for one dose, which should be repeated four
times daily. I take of sulphate of zinc, one fourth part of a grain; of powdered
henbane leaves, one grain; of compound tragacanth powder, one dram; of
nitrate of potash, six grains; of tartrate of potash, one twenty-fourth part of a
grain, and of bicarbonate of soda, six grains. I reduce these ingredients to a
fine powder, combine them intimately together, and afterwards mix them with
a sufficient quantity of sugar to make a lozenge.

page_text: Instead of taking this medicine in the form of a lozenge, these ingredients
may be dissolved in boiling water and taken as a draught when cold, or the
lozenge itself may be so dissolved and prepared.
This medicine is applicable for the cure of gonnorrhoea, gleets, and all other
venereal affections. It is also applicable for the cure of all irregular urethral
discharges, and for renovating and restoring generative debility.
If manufactured in the form of a lozenge, the different ingredients are
proportioned for each, and the whole moulded and pressed into form, as well-
known in the lozenge manufacture.
For the more advanced stages of the disease I slightly increase the
quantities for a dose, taking care to maintain the same relative proportions in
all cases. As before-mentioned the dose is to be taken four times daily, and
being pleasant to the taste it may be eaten in the form of a lozenge, or the
lozenge may be dissolved in half a pint of boiling water and drank when cold.
With this medicine there is no necessity for any alteration in the diet of
the patient, as animal and vegetable food may be taken as usual, but all kinds
of wines, spirits, and malt liquor must be avoided. Tea, linseed tea, and
barley water should be taken in considerable quantities to aid the effect of the
medicine.
Having described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of per-
forming the same, I declare that what I claim to be protected and secured to
me under the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the Invention of
the medicine herein-before described, for the cure of venereal affections, and
all irregular urethral discharges, and for the restoration or renovation of
generative debility.
In witness whereof, I, the said Lewis Jacob Jordan, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
EDWARD DAVIS,
19, Berners Street,
Oxford Street,
London.
LEWIS JACOB JORDAN. (L.S.)