Medicinal Tablets or Cakes for Addition to Baths.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Jan., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 11th Sept., 1895-Accepted, 4th Jan., 1896
Medicinal Tablets or Cakes for Addition to Baths.
I, WENZEL SEDLITZKY, of Salzburg in the Empire of Austria, Doctor of
Medicine and Court Apothecary do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
This invention has for its object to prepare medicinal additions to baths in the
form of tablets or cakes added to the water so as to simplify and facilitate the
manual operations, and to afford means for having mixtures of constantly identical
proportions.
The materials intended to form the additions to baths are mixed together in the
required proportions, and afterwards pressed together under strong mechanical
pressure in the form of tablets or cakes, a neutral agglutinant such as extract of
pine-needles being if desired added before the pressing.
This process has moreover the advantage of reducing as much as possible the
volume of the remedial agents, and of increasing their solubility.
As an instance of this process, I will describe hereinafter the manufacture of
tablets or cakes, to be dissolved in water in order to substitute two of the most
generally employed baths viz.: brine-baths and pine-needle-baths.
In the first of these cases, the mother-lye salt, containing the accessory salts of
the brine (such as sulphates, magnesia &c.) is mixed with the quantity of common
salt required in order to produce a mixture corresponding exactly, as to its com-
position, to natural brine dried by evaporation. Said mixture is then with or
without addition of some pine needle extract as agglutinant, pressed mechanically
into tablets or cakes, each of which corresponds, say to 5 liters of natural brine.
In order to make pine needle baths young pine twigs or branches are steeped in
pine-needle extract and oil, and then mechanically pressed into tablets which are
almost dry, and, when dissolved in water, give the exact equivalent of a natural
pine needle bath.
Dated this 8th day of January 1895.
JENSEN & SON,
77 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.
∙Medicinal Tablets or Cakes for Addition to Baths.
I, WENZEL SEDLITZKY of Salzburg in the Empire of Austria Doctor of
Medicine and Court Apothecary, 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 :-
Heretofore when it was required to add to baths remedial agents such as salts,
extracts or other matters as substitutes for natural baths containing such remedial
agents, these additions were made in such a manner that the said agents or
ingredients possessing the desired medicinal qualities were mixed together in
determined proportions and the mixture then added to the water in the bath.
These ingredients were either separately extracted from the natural solutions or
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page_text: obtained artificially by various chemical processes, in solid or liquid form, and sold
as such. Now on the one hand this way of preparing medicinal baths is complicated
and on the other hand it is almost impossible to prepare the mixture in the
proportions exactly desired; moreover the mixture always has to be put into the
bath in loose or unpacked condition.
This invention has for its object to prepare medicinal additions to baths in the
form of tablets, tabloids or cakes which are added to the water thus simplifying
and facilitating the manual operations and ensuring mixtures of constantly identical
proportions.
In carrying out this invention the materials intended to form the additions to
baths are mixed together in the required proportions and then compressed by
strong mechanical pressure into the form of tablets, tabloids or cakes, a neutral
agglutinant such as the etherial oil obtained from pine needles being if desired
added before the compressing.
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This process has moreover the advantage of reducing as much as possible the
volume or bulk of the remedial agents and of increasing their solubility.
As an instance of this process I will now describe the manufacture of tablets or
cakes to be dissolved in water in order to produce substitutes for two of the most
generally employed baths, viz. :-brine baths and pine needle baths.
In the first of these cases a mother-lye containing the accessory salts of natural
brine (viz. the sulphates of sodium, calcium and magnesium, the chloride of
magnesium, and the bromide of sodium) is mixed with the quantity of common
salt required say about three parts of the latter to one of the mother lye in order to
produce a mixture corresponding exactly as to its composition to natural brine dried
by evaporation. Said mixture is then with or without addition of some pine needle
oil which may be mixed with the oils of juniper and of eucalyptus, such mixture
forming about 001 part, in all of the said addition as agglutinant, compressed
mechanically into tablets or cakes each of which corresponds say to 5 litres of
natural brine. According to the desired degree of concentration of the brine bath
to be prepared one or more of these tablets is or are put into the bath where it or
they very easily dissolve in hot water and produce the equivalent of a natural
brine bath containing 5, 10 or more liters of brine, according to the number of
tablets employed.
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In order to make pine needle baths young pine twigs or branches are steeped in
what I have called pine needle oil with mixture of the oils of juniper, and of eucalyptus,
and then mechanically compressed into tablets which are almost dry and when
dissolved in water produce the exact equivalent of a natural pine needle bath.
The following is an example: Chloride of sodium 10 parts, pine needle oil 1 part,
pine twigs 5 and oil mixture '001.
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 :-
As a new product of manufacture for use as addition to baths, compressed cakes
tabloids or tablets made of the remedial agents or parts contained in the
corresponding natural bath and mixed in the same proportions as in the latter.
Dated this 11th day of September 1895
JENSEN & SON,
77 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.