A New or Improved Medicine for Indigestion.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Sept., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 26th Apr., 1895-Accepted, 8th June, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Medicine for Indigestion.
LUCY JANE DARBY (Miss) of 2 Western Terrace Wincheap, Canterbury in the
County of Kent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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My invention has reference to "A new or improved medicine for indigestion" and
consists of a valuable combination of most useful drugs, its medicinal qualities being
rendered still more efficacious by the addition of stimulating matter.
The chief
object being to provide an effectual remedy for indigestion and at the same time a
compound free from poisonous properties liable to produce a deleterious result. To
attain these objects I amalgamate the following ingredients in their respective
proportion viz. :-
American mandrake root
Best powdered rhubarb
Best powdered bark
Carbonate of soda
Hiera piera
Oil of peppermint
one half ounce.
Cayenne pepper
Brandy
one half ounce.
one half ounce.
one fourth ounce.
one fourth ounce.
forty five drops.
one teaspoonful.
one gill.
My mode of mixing, & preparing the above composition is as follows: The
mandrake root is first bruised & boiled in three fourths of a pint of water the
boiling process being continued until it is reduced by evaporation to one half a pint
the decoction should then be allowed to cool when the remainder of the ingredients
are to be added. The compound should be well agitated before bottling in order
that the ingredients may be thoroughly & prevent precipitation. To use the
medicine-half a teaspoonful should be taken directly after meals, three times
each day in half a wineglassful of cold water, which may be sweetened if desired.
Dated this 1st day of September 1894.
DI BUITIVATION.
A New or Improved Medicine for Indigestion.
I, Miss LUCY JANE DARBY, of 2 Western Terrace, Wincheap Canterbury,
in the County of Kent 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 :-
My invention has reference to "A new or improved medicine for indigestion,"
& consists of a valuable combination of the most useful drugs, its medicinal
qualities being rendered still more efficacious by the addition of stimulating matter.
The chief object being to provide an effectual remedy for indigestion & at the
same timeia compound free from poisonous properties liable to produce a deleterious
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page_text: result. To obtain these objects I amalgamate the following ingredients in their
respective proportions viz. :-
American mandrake root
Best powdered rhubarb
Best powdered bark
Carbonate of soda
Hiera piera
Oil of peppermint
-
one half ounce.
one half ounce.
-
one half ounce.
one fourth ounce.
one fourth ounce.
forty five drops.
Cayenne pepper
Brandy
-
one teaspoonful.
-
one gill.
The mandrake
My mode of preparing the above composition is as follows.
root is first bruised & boiled in three fourths of a pint of water, the boiling process
being continued until it is reduced by evaporation to one half a pint. The decoction
should then be allowed to cool when the remainder of the ingredients are to be
added, the compound should be well agitated before bottling in order that the
ingredients may be thoroughly mixed & to prevent precipitation. To use the
medicine half a teaspoonful should be taken directly after meals, three times each
day in a half wineglass full of cold water which may be sweetened if desired.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
A new or improved medicine for the prevention & cure of indigestion consisting
of the ingredients in their respective proportions & mixed in the manner afore-
said, all substantially as herein before described & ascertained in & by the
accompanying Specification.
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C. W. HIGGS,
Agent for the Applicant.