Improvements in Medicine for Human use.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 16th June, 1888
Complete Specification Left, 18th Mar., 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 27th Apr., 1889
Improvements in Medicine for Human use.
We HENRY GRANT NOAKES of 26 Maitland Park Road, Haverstock Hill; in the
County of Middlesex; Gentleman EDWIN JOHN TUCKER of Holloway Farm Southend
Catford in the County of Kent, Gentleman and DANIEL CLARK of 17 Collett Road,
Bermondsey in the County of Surrey Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of
this Invention to be as follows:-
The object of our invention is to effect an improvement in the preparation of drugs or
medicines, so as to render them palatable and also an improvement in the means
whereby such drugs and medicines are readily and accurately divided into the
required doses.
For this purpose we employ a mixture of cocoa, sugar and cocoa butter, that is to
say, the mixture or preparation commonly known and sold as chocolate, and we
intimately mix and incorporate with the said chocolate during the progress of its
manufacture, any suitable remedial drug or drugs, with or without suitable flavoring
oils or essences. The resulting compound is formed into cakes or tablets, in suitable
moulds, in the same manner as is usual in the manufacture of chocolate, and these
cakes or tablets are formed with parallel or other suitably disposed indentations, so
that a portion containing a, sufficient quantity of medicine to form a proper dose
may readily be broken off the cake, or the tablets may be made of such a size that
each one may itself form a proper dose.
We do not confine ourselves to the use of any particular drug or drugs, but it will
be obvious that the flavor of certain drugs is more readily concealed by the chocolate
than that of others.
We find that certain drugs which have an aperient action or are useful for their
effect on the liver, are particularly suitable for treatment in this manner, and the
cakes or tablets manufactured with them are so free from the taste of the drug or
drugs as to form an agreeable sweetmeat.
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Improvements in Medicine for Human Use.
We, HENRY GRANT NOAKES, of 26 Maitland Park Road, Haverstock Hill, in the
County of Middlesex, Gentleman, EDWIN JOHN TUCKER, of Holloway Farm,
Southend, Catford, in the County of Kent; Gentleman, and DANIEL CLARK, of
17 Collett Road, Bermondsey, in the County of Surrey, Gentleman, 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:
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The object of our improvement is to effect an improvement in the preparation of
drugs or medicines, so as to render them palatable, and also an improvement in the
means whereby such drugs and medicines are readily and accurately divided into the
required doses.
For this purpose we employ a mixture of cocoa, sugar, and cocoa-butter, that is'
to say the mixture or preparation commonly known and sold as chocolate, and we
intimately mix and incorporate with the said chocolate, during the progress of its
manufacture, any suitable remedial drug or drugs, with or without suitable flavoring
oils or essences. The resulting compound is formed into cakes or tablets in suitable
moulds, in the same manner as is usual in the manufacture of chocolate, and these
cakes or tablets are formed with parallel or other suitably disposed indentations, so
that a portion containing a sufficient quantity of medicine to form a proper dose
may readily be broken off the cake, or the tablets may be made of such a size that
each one may itself form a proper dose.
We do not confine ourselves to the use of any particular drug or drugs, but it
will be obvious that the flavour of certain drugs is more readily concealed by the
chocolate than that of others.
We find that certain drugs which have an aperient action, or are useful for their
effect on the liver, are particularly suitable for treatment in this manner, and the
cakes or tablets manufactured with them are so free from the taste of the drug or
drugs as to form an agreeable sweetmeat.
'
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. The combination, with a mixture of cocoa, sugar, and cocoa-butter, or the::
mixture or preparation commonly known and sold as chocolate, of a suitable remedial

page_text: drug or drugs, the whole being formed into cakes or tablets, substantially as set
forth.
2. Cakes or tablets, consisting of the ingredients as sot forth in the first claim,
and formed in moulds with parallel or other suitably disposed indentations, so that
a portion containing a sufficient quantity of medicine to form a proper dose may
readily be broken off the cake, substantially as set forth.