Improvements relating to the Production of Organic Extracts and Serums of the Blood Containing Organic Ferments and their Application to Mammalian Animals Principally for Inoreasing the Milk of Dairy Cattle and for other purposes.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 6th.July, 1899-Accepted, 16th Sept., 1899.
COMPLETE DIECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to the Production of Organic Extracts and
Serums of the Blood Containing Organic Ferments and their
Application to Mammalian Animals Principally for Inoreasing the
Milk of Dairy Cattle and for other purposes.
1, RICHARD RICHARDS HARVEY, of Norseman, in the Colony of Western Austra-
lia, Medical Practitioner, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascer
tained in and by the following statement:
This invention of animal extracts and blood serums is produced and prepared
for use and application to mammalian animals in order to confer upon them (by
means of the ferments contained) physical characters and sexual and generative
conditions of the animal from which they are obtained and to increase or diminish
or render more valuable those conditions such as for example increasing the
production of milk in dairy cattle.
The preparations are administered to the animal by hypodermic or other injec-
tion, by inunction, by feeding or other means known to science.
The invention essentially consists in the production and preparation and use
of certain extracts and active principles of extracts or ferments of the placenta
and liquor amnii and of the serum of the blood of the pregnant lactating and
normal female respectively of mammalian animals.
The extract of the placenta is prepared either by drying pressure, extraction
by water alcohol; glycerine or other chemical with filtration and other known
processes.
The extract of the liquor amnic is prepared by evaporation under special known
conditions and by the addition of alcohol or other chemical with filtration and
other known processes.
These extracts may be prepared either in a fluid form or dried condition and
a preservative added consisting of formalin, alcohol, ether, salicylic acid, boric
acid, camphor, glycerine, or such other known agents of preservation.
In the manufacture of the serums the blood is drawn into sterilized vessels
and allowed to stand for a period of about twenty-four hours in tall sterilized
glasses, their mouths being plugged with cotton wool, whereupon the serum is
poured off or decanted and placed in sterilized phials or vessels for subsequent
use and any approved preservative may be added.
The various serums which are taken from the blood during the different natural
processes or conditions or stages thereof are kept separate for the special action
and uses of such respective serum.
This invention depends upon the following discoveries: The discovery of the
ferments of the placenta and liquor amnic. The discovery that the blood serum
of a pregnant animal contains these ferments and that all the symptoms of preg-
nancy are produced by them. The discovery that the blood serum of a milk
making animal contains the antitoxin of these ferments, and all the symptoms
of lactation are due to it. The discovery that the blood serum of the non-preg-

page_text: nant female contains the ovarian ferment and produces all the effects peculiar
to the female. The discovery that all the characteristics of any of the conditions
peculiar to the female may be produced in another animal by administering to
it the blood serum of the former and that characteristics distinguishing a par-
ticular individual may be so transferred as for example the serum from a good
milking cow infected into a cow of poor milking character will produce an in-
crease in the quality and quantity of the milk.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1. The herein described preparation containing or being constituted by ex-
tracts obtained from the placenta and liquor amnii and serum of the blood (con-
taining sexual and generative ferments) of mammalian animals, substantially
as herein set forth and described.
2. The herein described method of preserving such above claimed prepara-
tions, either in fluid or a dried form, substantially as and for the purposes herein
set forth and explained.
3. The use of the herein described preparations for the transference of sexual
and generative conditions and qualities substantially as herein described, and set
forth.
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HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.