IMPROVED MEDICINAL MIXTURES ADAPTED FOR CURING DISEASES OF CATTLE
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Bagshaw and John Paine Harris, both of
Belstead, in the County of Suffolk, for the Invention of "IMPROVED
MEDICINAL MIXTURES ADAPTED FOR CURING DISEASES OF CATTLE."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Bagshaw and John'
Paine Harris at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 9th January 1857.
We, JOHN BAGSHAW and JOHN PAINE HARRIS, both of Belstead, in the
County of Suffolk, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVED MEDICINAL MIXTURES ADAPTED FOR CURING DISEASES OF CATTLE," to be
as follows:-
This Invention consists in the use and employment of the following
ingredients, matters, or substances compounded together in the following order
and proportions:-
Firstly, copper dissolved in aquafortis, about equal quantities.
Secondly, to one gallon of tobacco liquor I add th parts of a pint of spirits
of turpentine, part of a pint of spirits of wine, 1 ounce of salammoniac,
2 ounces of soft soap, and 2 drachms of halken root.
Thirdly, to 1 ounce of birthwort I add 1 ounce of rhubarb, 2 ounces of
brandy, 2 ounces of spirits of nitre, 4 drachins of laudanum, of an ounce
of gentian root, of an ounce of ginger, 6 ounces of sulphate of magnesia,
of carraway
2 ounces of gin, and a of an ounce of syrup
seed.
Fourthly, to 8 ounces of nitrate of potash I add 8 ounces of spirits of
turpentine, 12 ounces of sulphate of magnesia, and 2 ounces of Armenian
bole.

page_text: Fifthly, and lastly, to a pound of sulphur vivian I add 4 drachms of
assessetia, 3 ounces of white belebore, 2 drachms of oil of wormwood, and
3 ounces of white lead powder.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Bagshaw and John Paine Harris in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 9th July 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOHN
"BAGSHAW and JOHN PAINE HARRIS, both of Belstead, in the County of Suffolk,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by. Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of January, in the year of our Lord. One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twentieth year of Her reign,
-did for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said
John Bagshaw and John Paine Harris, Her special licence that we, the
said John Bagshaw and John Paine Harris, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said John Bagshaw and John Paine
Harris, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agrco
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 "IMPROVED MEDICINAL
MIXTURES ADAPTED FOR CURING DISEASES OF CATTLE," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said John Bagshaw and John Paine Harris,.
our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our or
their hands and seals, or under the hand.and seal of one of us or them, 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 we, the said John Bagshaw and John Paine
Harris, 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 :-
Our Invention consists in the use and employment of the following
ingredients, matters, or substances compounded together in the following order
and proportions:-

page_text: Firstly, copper dissolved in aquafortis, about equal quantities. This mixture
is particularly adapted for curing disease in sheep, termed "foot rot."
Secondly, to one gallon of tobacco liquor we add th parts of a pint of
spirits of turpentine, th part of a pint of spirits of wine, 1 ounce of sal-
ammoniac, 2 ounces of soft soap, and 21 drachms of balken root. This
mixture is particularly adapted for curing diseases in sheep, termed "scal
e." The halken root we use as a dye to mark those sheep that have
been operated upon by the above mixture.
mange.
Thirdly, to one ounce of birthwort we add 1 ounce of rhubarb, 2 ounces of
brandy, 2 ounces of spirits of nitre, 4 drachms of laudanum, of an ounce
ounce of ginger, 6 ounces of sulphate of magnesia,
ounce of syrup of carraway seed. This mixture is
intended to be used as a lambing drink.
of gentian root, of an
2 ounces of gin, and
Fourthly, to 8 ounces of nitrate of potash we add 8 ounces of spirits of
turpentine, 12 ounces of sulphate of magnesia, and 2 ounces of Armenian
bole. This mixture is intended to be used as a scouring mixture for cattle.
Fifthly, and lastly, to a pound of sulphur vivian we add 4 drachms of
assessetia, 3 ounces of white helebore, 2 drachms of oil of wormwood, and
3 ounces of white lead powder. This mixture, which we call a "fly powder,"
is well adapted for preventing flies from striking sheep.
Having now fully described and set forth the nature and object of our said
Invention, together with the best means we are acquainted with for carrying
the same into practical effect, we hereby declare our Invention to consist in,
and we claim, the compounding together of the before-mentioned ingredients
into improved medicinal mixtures adapted for curing diseases of cattle, as
above stated.
In witness whereof, we, the said John Bagshaw and John Paine Harris,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Seventh day of July, in
the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
Witness,
EDMUND ELLISTON,
Brook Street, Ipswich.
(L.S.)
JOHN BAGSHAW.
JOHN P. HARRIS. (L.S.)