IMPROVED MEANS OR METHOD FOR ADMINISTERING MEDICINAL PREPARATIONS
Year: 1884

page_text: I WILLIAM RYDING BENNETTE of 13 Parker Street Liverpool in the county of
Lancaster Surgeon Dentist do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for
"IMPROVED MEANS OR METHOD FOR ADMINISTERING MEDICINAL PREPARATIONS,"
to be as follows:-
فيه
:
The object of this invention is to improve the means for administering official,
officinal or other medicinal preparations without destroying their properties, more
particularly those which are disagreeable to the taste.
A preparation of the medicine to be used is made with a gummy or gelatinous
medium, the same being charged with a definite quantity of the medicine. With
this preparation of the consistency of a thick gum I take the dried fruit of the
grape vine and thoroughly coat the latter until evenly covered. The raisin is
then thrown into crystallized Sugar which adheres to it, and afterwards placed in
a drying chamber or oven heated to about 100 degrees Fahrenheit where it
gradually dries. Of course it will be understood that the raisin may be first
coated with the gum or. gelatinous material and the medicine made to adhere to
that in powdered or granular form, but I much prefer the first named method as
the exact quantity of the medicine used can be more accurately regulated thereby.
Neither do I confine myself to the use of raisins, as there are other dried fruit
which would answer the same purpose.
By these means I produce an elegant and useful and at the same time unique
article in pharmacy.

page_text: I WILLIAM RYDING-BENNETTE, of 13, Parker Street, Liverpool in the County
of Lancaster Surgeon-Dentist, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
"IMPROVED MEANS OR METHOD FOR ADMINISTERING MEDICINAL PREPARATIONS,"
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 utilising of the dried fruit of the Grape Vine (the
common raisin) or any other dried fruit such as the fig, or currant, as a vehicle
by which most of the medicines in every-day use may be given in a pleasant
form.
I proceed to make a solution of one part of gum acacia in two of water,
which should be strained.
The specified medicines to be used,-which may be written as a prescription,
or in any other way, and either singly or in any sort of combination, are weighed
accurately and added to the solution of gum in a vessel,- -an iron or brass pan is
best which is heated to the boiling point of water. In this the medicine and
gum solution are mixed to the consistence of thick cream. To this, while hot, the
fruit, previously weighed, or counted, is added, in its dry unchanged state, and the
whole worked together with a pestle or smooth piece of wood, until every individual
fruit is equally coated with the medicated solution. The fruit thus coated, is
thrown upon crystallized sugar, and rolled over and over, until every fruit has the
appearance of a crystallized jujube. It is then transferred to a room or chamber
heated to about 100° Fa. and spread upon shelves one or two thick, and there
remain until perfectly dry.
The article thus prepared presents an exceedingly tempting appearance, and if
kept in airtight vessels, may be preserved for any reasonable time without the
medicines losing their efficacy or their medicinal virtues being changed.
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 utilising of the dried fruit (raisin, fig, currant, or other) as a vehicle for
giving medicines, substantially as and for the purposes described.
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