IMPROVEMENTS IN MEDICAL COMPOUNDS OR LINIMENTS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Eveline Hungerford, of San Francisco, California,
but at present of 23, Southampton Buildings, in the County of
Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEDICAL COMPOUNDS
OR LINIMENTS."
Sealed the 24th July 1874, and dated the 29th May 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Eveline Hungerford
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at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 29th May 1874.
"I, EVELINE HUNGERFORD, of San Francisco, California, but at present
of 23, Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEDICAL
COMPOUNDS OR LINIMENTS," to be as follows:
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My Invention has for its object improvements in medical compounds.
or liniments. For this purpose I mix belladonna oil, croton oil,
turpentine, napthaline, camphor, white wax, and spermaceti in about
the quantities of the following formula;-Belladonna oil, twenty grains;

page_text: croton oil, twenty grains; turpentine, twenty grains; napthaline, twenty
grains; camphor, twenty grains; white wax, twenty grains; spermaceti,
twenty grains. These quantities may be slightly varied with reference
to each other without departing from the peculiar character of my
Invention.
The compound is made into an ointment or pomade, and applied to
the parts affected for the treatment of lumbago, neuralgia, gout, and
kindred diseases..
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said Eveline Hungerford in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 27th November 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EVELINE
HUNGERFORD, of San Francisco, California, but at present of 23,
Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her.most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-seventh
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Eveline Hungerford, Her special license that
I, the said Eveline Hungerford, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Eveline Hungerford, 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 "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN MEDICAL COMPOUNDS OR LINIMENTS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Eveline Hungerford, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or
one of their hands and scals, 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,
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page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Eveline Hungerford, do hereby.
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, that is to say: -
My Invention has for its object improvements in medical compounds
or liniments. For this purpose I mix belladonna oil, croton oil,
turpentine, napthaline, camphor, white wax, and spermaceti in about
the quantities of the following formula:-Belladonna oil, twenty grains;
croton oil, twenty grains; turpentine, twenty grains; napthaline, twenty
grains; camphor, twenty grains; white wax, twenty grains; spermaceti,
twenty grains. These quantities may be slightly varied with reference
to each other without departing from the peculiar character of my
Invention.
The compound is made into an ointment or pomade and applied to
the parts affected for the treatment of lumbago, neuralgia, gout, and
kindred diseases.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the mode
in which I carry the same into effect, I would have it understood that
what I claim is, the medical compound herein described for the purpose
set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Eveline Hungerford, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of October,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.