AN IMPROVED COMPOSITION AND APPARATUS FOR STRENGTHENING, ENRICHING AND EXTENDING THE RANGE OF THE HUMAN VOICE AND FOR THE TREATMENT OF PULMONARY AND OTHER AFFECTIONS
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
We ROBERT CARTER MOFFAT, of Newarthill, Lanarkshire, Chemist, and
THOMAS GILBERT BOWICK of Bedford in the County of Bedford, Merchant and
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of our Invention for AN IMPROVED
COMPOSITION AND APPARATUS FOR STRENGTHENING, ENRICHING AND EXTENDING
THE RANGE OF THE HUMAN VOICE AND FOR THE TREATMENT OF PULMONARY
AND OTHER AFFECTIONS to be as follows:-
Our Invention consists generally in the combination of ammonia or its
compounds with peroxide of hydrogen or its compounds in suitable proportions,
these may be combined with other ingredients such as oil of peppermint & may be
applied by inhalation through a tube containing an absorbent material saturated
or mixed with the said composition or swallowed in a liquid form, or taken in any
other convenient manner.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION,
We ROBERT CARTER MOFFAT of Newarthhill in the County of Lanark Chemist
and Thomas GILBERT BOWICK of Bedford in the County of Bedford Merchant and
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of our Invention for AN IMPROVED
COMPOSITION AND APPARATUS FOR STRENGTHENING ENRICHING AND EXTENDING
THE RANGE OF THE HUMAN VOICE AND FOR THE TREATMENT OF PULMONARY
AND OTHER AFFECTIONS and in what manner the same is to be performed, to
be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :—
Our Invention consists generally in the combination of ammonia or its
compounds with peroxide of hydrogen or its compounds in suitable proportions.―
These may be combined with other ingredients such as oil of peppermint and may
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page_text: be applied by inhalation through a tube containing an absorbent material saturated
or mixed with the said composition or swallowed in a liquid form or taken in any
other convenient manner.
In carrying out our Invention we take preferably 100 parts of water or other
fluid to which we add from 2 to 5 parts of ammonia or its compounds and from
2 to 5 parts of peroxide of hydrogen to this may be added any harmless volatile
oil such as oil of peppermint, preferably 1 to 5 parts. We do not however confine
ourselves to these exact proportions, as they, may be varied according to the
requirements.
We then saturate any convenient absorbent material, preferably cotton wick
with the chemical fluid above described and insert such wick into a tube made of
block tin silvered or other suitable material and preferably ten inches long by
1 inch in diameter.
The tubo may be open at both ends or fitted with removeable or partially
removeable caps or coverings at one or both ends, or be capable of being opened at
one or both ends, or be fitted with any convenient arrangement for the adinittance
of atmospheric air, gas, or vapour.
We also preferably attach a mouthpiece near the centre or at any convenient
position in the tube.
One method of using the apparatus is to insert one end of the tube in the mouth,
and the other end of the tubo being open and inhale in the usual manner.
Another method of carrying out the Invention is to take 95 per cent. or
thereabouts of water or other fluid and 5 per cent. or thereabouts of the chemical
fluid above described, and either swallow it or use it as a gargle to the throat or
apply it by means of any convenient spray producer.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is:-
(1.) The application of the chemical fluid compounded as herein described for
the purposes set forth.
(2) The method of charging the tube with the chemical fluid as herein described
for the purposes set forth.
(3.) The application in combination with any convenient inhaler, spray producer,
injector or other form of apparatus of the chemical fluid herein described for the
purposes set forth.
Dated this 1st day of August 1884.
ROBERT CARTER MOFfat.
T. GILBERT BOWICK.