NEUTRALIZING THE SMELL AND SAVOUR OF ALL VEGETABLE AND ANIMAL SUBSTANCES WITHOUT THEIR BEING ADULTERATED BY THE USE OF ESSENCES OR SPIRITS AND AROMATICAL PRODUCTS
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Antoine Chevrier, of No. 21, Rue du Faubourg
St. Martin, in the City of Paris, in the Empire of France, Apothecary,
for the Invention of "NEUTRALIZING THE SMELL AND SAVOUR OF ALL
VEGETABLE AND ANIMAL SUBSTANCES WITHOUT THEIR BEING ADULTERATED BY
THE USE OF ESSENCES OR SPIRITS AND AROMATICAL PRODUCTS"
Sealed the 27th April 1860, and dated the 31st October 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION. left by the said Antoine Chevrier, at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 31st
October 1859.
I, ANTOINE CHEVRIER, of No. 21, Rue du Faubourg St. Martin, in the City
of Paris, in the Empire of France, Apothecary, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for “NEUTRALIZING THE SMELL AND SAVOUR OF ALL VEGE-
TABLE AND ANIMAL SUBSTANCES WITHOUT THEIR BEING ADULTERATED BY THE USE OF
ESSENCES OF SPIRITS AND AROMATICAL PRODUCTS," to be as follows:-
My process,
while applicable to different substances, is principally directed.
to the disinfection of cod liver oil, balsam of copaiba, empyreumatical oils, and
all other animal or vegetable substances, whether liquids or solids.
Contrary to the means hitherto employed to disinfect cod liver oil and balsam
of copaiba, such as mixing in equal quantity with magnesia or spermaceti,
which not only obliges the patient to increase the dose of these preparations in
order to absorb the prescribed quantity of the medicinal principle, but also

page_text: occasions his taking another medicine differing in its effects from the principal
medicament, I rigorously respect the properties of these oils (and from the
nature of the substance I use, which perfectly assimilates with these oils)
and (especially with cod liver oil and balsam of copaiba) I add to their essential
or medicinal properties.
My process consists in adding to the above-mentioned oils a certain quantity,
say, about one per cent, of artificial essences, representing the pine apple,
rum, coffee, brandy, or other, perfuming these latter with a small dose of some
natural vegetable essential oil. A few drachms of these essences, thus prepared,
incorporated with a quart of an infectious or offensive oil will insure its thorough
disinfection, imparting to it a taste and smell which will enable it to be readily
taken and easily retained. Balsam of copaiba may be thickened by the
addition of a suitable quantity of powder obtained from ligneous or herbacious
vegetables. By the use of these combined essences, I purpose disinfecting as
above stated vegetable or animal substances (whether liquid or solid) if liquid
a simple admixture will suffice for the preparation, if solid they should be
sprinkled until impregnated with essence.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Antoine Chevrier in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
28th April 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ANTOINE
CHEVRIER, of No. 21. Rue du Faubourg, St. Martin, in the City of Paris, in
the Empire of France, Apothecary, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-third year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto.
me, the said Antoine Chevrier, Her special licence that I, the said Antoine
Chevrier, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Antoine Chevrier, 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 "NEUTRA-
LIZING THE SMELL AND SAVOUR OF ALL VEGETABLE AND ANIMAL SUBSTANCES WITHOUT
THEIR BEING ADULTERATED BY THE USE OF ESSENCES OF SPIRITS AND AROMATICAL

page_text: PRODUCTS," upon the condition (amongst others) that 1, the said Antoine
Chevrier, 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 Antoine Chevrier, do hereby declare
the nature of my 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 (that is to say) :-
Amongst the matters and productions vegetable, animal, and mineral; either
natural, obtained by art, or morbid, the odours, the savour of the morbids; and
the limpidity of which it is necessary to destroy, mark, and clarify, are, in the
first place, fish oils, by reason of their importance, such as cod liver, ray, and
squalus; and among the animal oils, especially with respect to limpidity, are
those for burning, greasing, and the table. Amongst the essences and other
matters which are destined to effect this, whether natural or artificial, whether
obtained from the vegetable, animal, or mineral creation, I place in the front
rank nirbane, a pyrogenic essence produced by the distillation of benzine.
This essence is the disinfectant above all others, and when used to disinfect
cod liver oil, it further sweetens and aromatizes it very agreably; but it pos-
sesses very great acridness, which must be made to disappear before it can be
used; and to effect this completely, I use as agents glucose, glycerine, diastace
or dextrine, and preference should be given to glucose, as it not only destroys
the acrid and empyreumatic savour of the mirbane, but also clarifies' it to the
highest perfection, as well as all the fish oils, and all other oils and essences,
either vegetable, animal, or mineral; and further, all the different alcohols, all
balsams, and tars, and other fatty matters. When it is desired to associate
one of the various essences with one of the matters or other products, the
acridness may be removed by glucose, and it will be much purer. Cod liver
and other fish oils may be purified and clarified in the same manner as the
mirbane. The mode of preparation is as follows:-Essence of mirbane well
rectified, about three drachms ("ten grammes") of peppermint, about two
scruples, fifteen grains (two "grammes and fifty centigrammes"), and an equal
quantity of citron as of peppermint, melt at a gentle heat in a large-mouthed
flask; filter the solution of these substances, and after cooling add about
three pounds weight ("one thousand grammes") of white, brown, or or light-
coloured cod liver oil. To completely disinfect sores, and act upon all purulent

page_text: matters, recourse should be had to, firstly, distilled red laurel water or water
of bitter almonds, which may be used pure or mixed with spring water, and it
may be sprinkled on the linen, or on the sores, or injected; secondly, about
three pounds weight of purified mirbane in about a quart of spring water, well
shaken before use. With the first or second of these disinfectants equally
satisfactory results may be obtained. Balsam of copaiva possesses an unpa-
ralleled acridness, but it loses a great deal of its strength when mixed with pure
glucose, after shaking well carefully decant the balsam. The use of this
powerful agent becomes very easy when mixed with butter of cacao, this latter
being in the proportion of one-third. The mixture should be effected by placing
the pot within another containing very hot water, then cooling the mass until
it appears like and has the consistence of a jelly, in which state it may be very
easily swallowed. A few drops of chlorure of iron mixed with the copaiva
before placing it in contact with the butter of cacao, contributes greatly to the
removal of its acridness.
In witness whereof, I, the said Antoine Chevrier, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
Witness,
Doffoz,
15, Faubourg Montmartre.
A. CHEVRIER. (L.S.)