A NEW COMPOUND EXTRACT TO BE EMPLOYED AS A MEANS FOR THE CURE OF DEAFNESS
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Sims, of Reading, in the County of Berks,
Brewer, for the Invention of "A NEW COMPOUND EXTRACT TO BE EMPLOYED
AS A MEANS FOR THE CURE OF DEAFNESS."
Sealed the 2nd October 1863, and dated the 12th June 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Sims at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 12th
June 1863.
I, WILLIAM SIMS, of Reading, in the County of Berks, Brewer, do hereby
declare the nature of the Invention for "A NEW COMPOUND EXTRACT TO
BE EMPLOYED AS A MEANS FOR THE CURE OF DEAFNESS," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in the preparation of a compound extract from cer-
tain herbs, as hereafter described, to be employed as a means for the cure of
deafness. For this purpose I first prepare a "wash," composed of the
following ingredients and proportions, or thereabouts; dissolve one ounce of
honey in one gallon of warm water, to which add a quarter of a pound of
chickweed, a quarter of a pound of ground ivy, two ounces of rosemary, and a
quarter of a pound of pennyroyal, together with one ounce of brewers' yeast, set
this liquor and ingredients to ferment, at a temperature of about 60° Fahren-
heit for about three days, put the fermented liquor and, ingredients (in the
above proportions or thereabouts) into the body of a still, and apply gentle
heat, drawing over about fifteen gallons out of every twenty gallons contained

page_text: in the still. The compound extract thus obtained is employed for the cure of
deafness, by dropping four or five drops into each ear (night and morning) of
any person afflicted with deafness, temporary or otherwise. A beneficial result
has invariably attended the use of this remedy.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Sims in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
9th December 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
SIMS, of Reading, in the County of Berks, Brewer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
William Sims, Her special licence that I, the said William Sims, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William
Sims, 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 COMPOUND EXTRACT TO
BE EMPLOYED AS A MEANS FOR THE CURE OF DEAFNESS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said William Sims, my executors or adminis-
trators, 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 William Sims, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention consists in the preparation of a compound extract from cer-
tain herbs, as hereafter described, to be employed as a means for the cure of
deafness. For this purpose I first prepare a "wash," composed of the following
ingredients and proportions, or thereabouts. Dissolve one ounce of honey in
one gallon of warm water, to which add a quarter of a pound of chickweed, a

page_text: quarter of a pound of ground ivy, two ounces of rosemary, and a quarter of a
pound of pennyroyal, together with one ounce of brewers' yeast; set this
liquor and ingredients to ferment at a temperature of about 60° Fahrenheit for
about three days. Put the fermented liquor and ingredients in the above
proportions or thereabouts in the body of a still, and apply gentle heat, drawing
over about fifteen gallons out of every twenty gallons contained in the still.
The compound extract thus obtained is employed for the cure of deafness, by
dropping four or five drops into each ear (every night and morning) of any person
afflicted with deafness, temporary or otherwise, until the sense of hearing is
restored. A beneficial result has hitherto invariably attended the use of this
remedy.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Sims, have hereunto set my-
hand and seal, this First day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
Witness,
WILLIAM POVEY SIMS.
WILLIAM SIMS. (L.S.)