AN OINTMENT FOR THE CURE OF SORES
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Stevens, of 31, Charing Cross, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "AN OINTMENT
FOR THE CURE OF SORES."-A communication from abroad by Marc Pène,
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Sealed the 22nd August 1861, and dated the 2nd March 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Stevens at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 2nd
March 1861.
I, CHARLES STEVENS, of 31, Charing Cross, in the County of Middlesex,
Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN
OINTMENT FOR THE CURE OF SORES."-A communication to me from abroad by
Marc Pène, of 42, Rue Laffitte, in the Empire of France, to be as follows:-
The ointment is composed of the following ingredients, viz.:-litharge,
about half a pound; strong vinegar, about half a pint; olive oil, about half
a pint. This mixture is boiled till it forms a thinish paste; the ointment is
applied by spreading it on paper cut the size of the
part affected.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Stevens in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
30th August 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
STEVENS, of 31, Charing Cross, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent. Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Charles Stevens, Her special licence that I, the said Charles
Stevens, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such other as I, the
said Charles Stevens, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 "AN OINTMENT FOR
THE CURE OF SORES," a communication to me from abroad by Marc Pène, of
42, Rue Laffitte, Paris, in the Empire of France, upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Charles Stevens, 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 Charles Stevens, 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 consists of an ointment which effectually and radically cures
all skin diseases; it is composed of the following ingredients in the following
proportions-Litharge, half a pound; strong vinegar, about half a pint;
olive oil, about half a pint. These ingredients are first well mixed, and
then boiled till they form a thickish paste. The ointment is applied by
spreading it on paper of an absorbing nature, and cut the size of the sore.
Having thus described my Invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by

page_text: Letters Patent, is the ointment for the cure of sores compounded as herein-
before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Stevens, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
CHARLES STEVENS. (L.S.)