AN IMPROVED MEDICINAL COMPOUND
Year: 1885

page_text: I JAMES VOLLER of The Railway Guard Clapham Junction in the County of
Surrey Licensed Victualler do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
AN IMPROVED MEDICINAL COMPOUND to be as follows:-
I make up my improved medicinal compound as follows I take 1 grain of
Acetous Extract of Colchicum 3 grains of Compound Powder of Ipecacuanha and
1 grain of Extract of Rhubarb The above amounts in weight are sufficient for
one pill The pills are made in the usual way viz The ingredients are well mixed
and then rolled.

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I, JAMES VOLLER, of The Railway Guard Clapham Junction in the County of
Surrey now of 21 Meyrick Road Battersea do hereby declare the nature of my
'invention for "AN IMPROVED MEDICINAL COMPOUND and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-
This invention relates to the preparation of an improved medicinal compound,
and has more particular reference to the prevention of indigestion, with a view to
rendering impossible the numerous derangements and affections of health, which
are caused, more or less remotely, by an imperfect discharge of the functions of the
stomach.
My invention relates: not only to the compounding of the medicine which is
the subject of it, but extends to the particular times for and method of its
'administration. For it must be apparent that the improper or imperfect adminis-
tration of a remedy will, as a matter of course, seriously impair, if it does not
entirely nullify, the normal efficiency of such remedy.
It is a matter of common experience that the imperfect discharge of the digestive
functions of the stomach leads to. mischievous consequences which, in their scope
and future influence on the health and general well-being of the individual, are by
no means limited to the particular time and duration of such condition of indigestion.
Such consequences are frequently cumulative, and, in addition to keeping the
constitution in such a depressed condition as to make it an easy prey to external
adverse influences, eventually sows in it the germs of numerous painful affections
which suffice to make after-life a burden.
Thousands of sufferers from indigestion patiently suffer, or, at the best, by having
recourse to remedies only when this condition of the stomach or some of its baneful
consequences have become recurrent or chronic, endeavour to relieve themselves
from the evils which threaten their existence.
Instead of being satisfied with a treatment which only commences when a
mischievous habit of body shall have been already established, my invention offers
a remedy which shall be introduced into the system with the food, and being
subjected to the process of assimilation at the same time and therewith, will,
therefore, render the process of digestion easy and perfect, as well as plant, as it
were, throughout the system a permanent safeguard against and preventive of any
local atfection to which a naturally weak stomach may render its possessor liable.
By adopting this idea as the basis of my improved medicinal compound and its
administration, I secure the maximum beneficial effect, for it is evident the first
tendencies towards imperfect digestion will be immediately arrested, and, while a
proper assimilation of the food is secured, a reserve of preventive and curative
influence is established throughout the patient's constitution.
The drugs I make use of in the preparation of my improved medicinal compound
are well-known for their preventive and curative influences. But my invention
does not consist in solely, or confine itself to the selection of the particular drugs

page_text: specified, inasmuch as the relative proportions in which they are taken is an integral
and important feature thereof.
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These ingredients are made up into one pill.
The above proportions may be slightly varied without departing from the essence
or substance of my invention, but the quantities specified above are, I find, those
best calculated to yield the most beneficial results.
Any ordinary or well-known method of making up the pills may be used, and
the pills themselves finished in any way best suited to make them palatable.
The dose is one pill, to be taken after each of the three principal meals.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be carried into effect, I declare
that what I claim is
The hereinbefore specified combination of drugs producing an improved medicinal
compound, substantially as described.