An Improved Ointment for Application to Flesh Wounds, Skin Diseases, and other Maladies.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Oct., 1896-4ccepted, 28th Nov., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Ointment for Application to Flesh Wounds, Skin
Diseases, and other Maladies. -
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We, JENKIN THOMAS, of Mwyndy Villa, near Pontyclown, Llantrissant,
Glamorganshire, Hay and Corn Merchant, and JOHN WALTERS, of 3, East Road,
Pontypridd, Glamorganshire, Chemist, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention consists in an ointment for treating flesh wounds, skin diseases,
and other eruptions. It is also efficacious in allaying inflammation and in treating
other maladies.
The improved ointment which constitutes this invention is composed of yellow
soap, honey, brown, raw, or Demerara sugar, and oil of winter-green. The yellow
soap should he pure, and the honey is preferably British.
As an example indicating the proportions in which the aforesaid ingredients are
mixed they are as follows: Of yellow soap, honey, and raw sugar, each 1 lb. ; of
beeswax, which is preferably British, 2 oz., and of oil of winter-green, 1 drachm.
In larger bulk the proportions will be relatively approximately the same.
The ointment is compounded in the following manner. The honey and raw
sugar are placed together in a vessel of porcelain or other suitable ware. By
means of a hot water or sand bath in which the vessel is placed, the honey and
sugar are liquefied. The soap is then added, having been previously cut into fine
shavings. The vessel still remains in the hot bath, and when the soap has, in turn,
also become liquefied, the beeswax, previously cut into fine shavings, is put in.
The ingredients are then stirred until the beeswax has become melted. The vessel
is then taken out of the bath and the contents are strained quickly through a
muslin or linen sieve, into a second vessel of suitable ware, the said second vessel
having previously been heated. Oil of winter-green is added after the compound
has sufficiently cooled that the oil can be mixed with it without appreciable loss by
volatilization. From the second vessel the mixture is poured into cold pots and
allowed to cool in a temperature of about 60 degrees Fahrenheit. When cold, the
compound assumes the character of ointment. The period of time occupied in
making the ointment with the above quantities of ingredients is approximately ne
hour and a quarter.
In applying the ointment to wounds, and other maladies of a kind which it
is capable of curing, it is first laid on linen or lint in a similar way to other
ointments applicable for like purposes. The linen or lint is then applied to the
affected part, the ointment being placed next to, that is to say, directly on such
affected part. Among other evils which the ointment will cure or alleviate, are
ulcers, boils, chapped hands, chilblains and piles.
The different ingredients have different effects. The despumated and clarified
honey and sugar have a soothing and healing effect, the soap and beeswax in
conjunction with the other ingredients have a stimulating effect, that is to say,
they impart vigour to the growing parts in a wound. The oil of winter-green has
anti-septic qualities.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
An ointment for application to flesh wounds, skin diseases, and other eruptions.

page_text: and other maladies; said ointment consisting of honey, soap, brown, raw, or
Demerara sugar, beeswax, and oil of winter-green, compounded together in
proportions approximately as above set forth and substantially according to the
process described.
Dated this 20th day of October 1896.
NICHOLAS WATTS,
Bristol, Chartered Patent Agent.