A NEW MEDICINAL COMPOUND PILL FOR DISEASES OF THE LIVER
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henri Newmane, Gentleman, of Hortulan Villa,
Shrewsbury, in the County of Salop, for the Invention of "A NEW
MEDICINAL COMPOUND PILL FOR DISEASES OF THE LIVER."
Sealed the 16th August 1864, and dated the 17th February 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henri Newmane at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 17th
February 1864.
İ, HENRI NEWMANE, Gentleman, of Hortulan Villa, Shrewsbury, in the
County of Salop, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention for
"A NEW MEDICINAL COMPOUND PILL FOR DISEASES OF THE LIVER," to be as
follows (that is to say):-
My Invention consists in the use of the root or other parts of the plants
sanguinaria and podophylles, dried or otherwise prepared, so that they may be
ground or reduced to a powder. I take about equal quantities of each of
these and a sufficient quantity of extract of taraxaci to form the whole into a
suitable mass, from which I form my pills, apportioning the size or dose
according to the age or habit of the patient.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henri Newmane in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 16th
August 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRI
NEWMANE, Gentleman, formerly of Hortulan Villa, Shrewsbury, in the County
of Salop, but now of Bristol Road, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-seventh year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Henri Newmane, Her special license that I, the said Henri
Newmane, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Henri Newmane, 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 NEW MEDICINAL
COMPOUND PILL FOR DISEASES OF THE LIVER," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Henri Newmane, by an instrument in writing under
my hand and seal, 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 Henri Newmane, 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 consists in the root of the plants sanguinaria and podo-
phyllum dried, so that they may be ground and reduced to a powder. I
take about equal quantities of each of these and a sufficient quantity of
extract of taraxaci to form the whole into a suitable mass, from which I form
my pills, apportioning the size or dose according to the age or habit of the
patient.
But the proportions I think that will be found most efficient in use, are
podophyllum, three ounces; sanguinaria, three ounces; extract taraxaci, five
ounces. Notwithstanding this last ingredient may be omitted and any other
suitable ingredient substituted for combining the other two ingredients.

page_text: Having thus given a description of my Invention, and the proportions I
recommend, I wish it understood that I do not purpose confining myself to
the exact quantities here given, as the same may be beneficially changed or
varied in some cases, but I believe the proportions given will be found
generally suitable, and a most valuable remedy for all diseases of the liver,
and all disorders arising from a morbid secretion of the bile, whether the
secretion be superabundant or defective, ameliorating the character of the bile
and giving a healthy action to the liver, hence their great efficacy in bilious
attacks.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henri Newmane, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
Witness,
WILLIAM LOACH,
Clerk to James S. Cockings,
Patent Agent.
Birmingham.
HENRI NEWMANE. (L.S.)