IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS FOR CURING SKIN DISEASES IN ANIMALS
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Henry Williams, of Westbury-on-Severn,
in the County of Gloucester, Fellow of the Royal Geographical
Society, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS FOR CURING
SKIN DISEASES IN ANIMALS."
Sealed the 6th September 1870, and dated the 8th March 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Henry Williams
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 8th March 1870.
I, CHARLES. HENRY WILLIAMS, of Westbury-on-Severn, in the
County of Gloucester, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MEANS FOR CURING SKIN DISEASES IN ANIMALS," to be as follows:
:-
This Invention consists in the employment of the following com-
position or fluid, which I call the Indian fluid, for curing skin diseases
in animals, especially in sheep and other woolly animals. It is composed
of the following ingredients and in or about the proportions herein-after

page_text: given: Petroleum or other similar hydrocarbons 3 quarts, oil of tar
1 quart, bole half a pound. The parts must be well incorporated, and
may be conveniently applied to the skin of the infected animals by being
poured on and rubbed in with the hand.
The Indian fluid prevents the fly maggotting, destroys maggots, ticks, 5
and other parasites, promotes the growth of wool, and is a perfect
cure for the scab or shab in sheep. It also prevents the fly blowing or
irritating cattle, cures the mange in any animal, and is a perfect cure
for all parasitical diseases.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Charles Henry Williams in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 7th September 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
HENRY WILLIAMS, of Westbury-on-Severn, in the County of Gloucester,
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-fourth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Charles Henry Williams, Her special licence,
that I, the said Charles Henry Williams, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles Henry Williams, 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
“IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS FOR CURING SKIN DISEASES IN ANIMALS,” upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Charles Henry Williams,
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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Henry Williams, 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:
-
This Invention consists in the employment of the following com-
position or fluid, which I call the Indian fluid, for curing skin diseases
in animals, especially in sheep and other woolly animals. It is composed
of the following ingredients, and in or about the proportions herein-after
given :-Petroleum or other similar hydrocarbons 3 quarts, oil of tar
1 quart, bole half a pound. The parts must be well incorporated and
may be conveniently applied to the skin of the infected animals by being
poured on and rubbed in with the hand.
The Indian fluid prevents the fly from maggoting, destroys maggots,
ticks, and other parasites, promotes the growth of wool, and is a perfect
cure for the scab or shab in sheep. It also prevents the fly from blowing
or irritating cattle, cures the mange in any animal, and is a perfect cure
for all parasitical diseases.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Henry Williams, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Fifth day of September, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.
CHARLES HENRY WILLIAMS, F.R.G.S. (L.S.)