A New or Improved Medicine.
Year: 1892

page_text: The decision of the Comptroller-General, of the 23rd day of June 1893, allowed,
under Section 18 of the Patents, &c. Act, 1883, an Amendment of this
Specification.
Date of Application, 27th Feb., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 25th Nov., 1892-Accepted, 11th Feb., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Medicine.
Bridge of Don
I THOMAS KNOWLES retired Butcher Cottown Village
Aberdeen do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A medicine compound for the prevention and cure of acute and chronic
consumption of the lungs, inward tubercles, and most other pulmonary diseases.
The ingredients of which are composed as follows, namely, Spanish juice or
liquorice root two ounces horehound two ounces, common horse bran two table-
spoonfuls, salt of tartar one dram with or without a small quantity of alcohol or gin
to keep it which is made into a decoction with two quarts of water boiled down to
one quart. General dose a wineglassful to five tablespoonfuls 4 times a day or
more or less according to how it acts on the bowels, it should act as a gentle aperient
once a day (without purging) no other medicine being required.
If made into a syrup one pound and three quarters of white loaf sugar. Dose
one tablespoonful or less four times a day. The above to be subject to the following
or other alterations if found an improvement as follows addition of one or half ounce
each elecampane or coltsfoot in addition to above horehound and one tablespoonful
of linseed in place of one tablespoonful of the bran and half a dram of salt of tartar
instead of one whole dram as above.
Dated this 10th day of Waha 1905
THOMAS KNOWLES.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION (AMENDED).
A New or Improved Medicine.
THOMAS KNOWLES retired Butcher, Cottown Village, Bridge of Don,
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, N.B. I 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 :-
A medicine compound a safe preventive or cure for acute or chronic consumption
of the lungs inward tubercles, and most other pulmonary diseases.
The following list of ingredients is an intended improvement on inserted ingredients
in the Provisional Specification there mentioned as under contemplation but has
here been only partly adopted being found not suitable after due consideration.
But the black currents substituted for the coltsfoot mentioned and the withdrawal
of half a dram of the salt of tartar is found to be a decided improvement on
Provisional Specification.
Complete improved list of ingredients as follows. Spanish liquorice jaee juice or
root two ounces, horehound two ounces, elecampane root two drachms, black currents
two drachms, broad wheat bran two drachms, linseed (bruised) two drachms, white
loaf sugar two drachms, salt of tartar half a dram. And with or without the.

page_text: withdrawal of half an ounce of above liquorice and to substitute half an ounce of
coltsfoot in its place at pleasure.
The same ingredients may also be made into a syrup these as a preventive only.
And with or without a little alcohol or one half to one gill of whiskey or gin to
keep it. Boil all the above ingredients (except the salt of tartar) with two quarts
of water down to one quart. The linseed and bran should be tied up in a linen cloth
or bag and when boiled press it a little with a wooden spoon to get out all the
remaining liquid, then strain, and when blood warm add the half dram of salt of
tartar let it stand to cool and settle then bottle and keep in a cool place for use.
The general dose for an adult in all diseases is five large tablespoonfuls four times
a day, (and not any fewer times) while takeing it. In severe cases of disease two
and a half large tablespoonfuls may be taken, or even a little more every two hours.
Delicate patients, and ladies,, will sometimes find a smaller dose sufficient while
those with sluggish livers may require a little more. It is easy to regulate the dose
to suit every case if it is remembered that this medicine should act as a gentle
aperient (once a day) without purging, no other inward medicine being required at
any stage of disease. In active inflamation and to assist to subdue (extreme) pain
anodynes, and other spiritions spirituous liniments may be combined externally with
above medicine, in such cases, or even mustard blisters if necessary only. Simple as
the above compound may appear it has been successfully tested in cases of consump-
tion and asthma, of two years standing and other diseases without failure (and in short
time) where a fair trial was given. It has cured cases in which the doctors failed.
It will cure cough not by stopping it all at once but by aiding the lungs, to throw
off the offending matter, which causes the cough; while most of the cough remedies
stop the cough too quick by their anodyne and too constringing effects, retaining
the mucus and all offending matters in the blood, causing permanent disease of the
lungs, such bad effects are in the above compound entirely obviated being entirely
free from all narcotic, opiates, morphian, or other dangerous, soothing or sleeping
drops. The half dram of salt of tartar withdrawn in this compound from that of
one dram as inserted in the Provisional Specification. I consider an important
improvement as large doses of this ingredient if long continued, may in some cases
have a tendency to effect the head while smaller doses have no such tendency,
I have substituted for the half dram here withdrawn, the two drachms of clecampane
here inserted (and which is mildly astringent) in its stead, the virtues which are
known to be very great and by so doing admits of the two drachms of black
currents who's virtues are so well known and very great and most valuable in
allaying fever, irritation, and thirst &c. &c. As also admits of the addition of the
two drachms each of the bran and linseed, as here inserted whose combined
properties and virtues are also great. The dose to be given being exactly the same
as in the compound inserted in the Provisional Specification and has greatly
increased the curative powers of the compound here inserted, and will be found to
prove of great use to arrest disease where the blood abounds with acrimonious
particles and foreign salts, as is the case in all scorbutic or consumptive habits of
body. The simplicity of this compound ought to be one of its greatest recom-
mendations and is presumed will be no objection to it, since it will as substantially
answer every purpose for which it is recommended, and prove more effectual perhaps
than other compounds or prescriptions ten times more complicated and. elaborate
and few to possess more valuable properties or virtues-as follows-It is more or
less tonic, stimulant, diaphoretic, pectoral, demulcent, emolient, astringent, diuretic,
expectorant, antiseptic, cachectic, antispasmodic, febrifuge, deobstruent styptic,
vulnerary, anthelmentic, carminative, balsamic, very searching, cooling, healing,
purifying, alterative, aperient, &c.
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:
First. I am aware that all the above ingredients inserted by me in my Provisional

page_text: Specification and this Complete Specification are not new in medicine, but I claim.
the combinations or arrangements as these inserted taken each ingredient and as a.
whole compound to be new or if not new to be an improvement upon any similar.
compound.
Second. I claim the relative proportions or quantities of these ingredients, (which
may be varied) of the said compounds and each taken as a whole to be new or an
improvement, as far as I am aware, and not new or improved as a whole compound,.
I claim specially the two ounces of horehound, or liquorice, or coltsfoot, and the
quantities of salt of tartar of both compounds, or at least the half dram of same in
Complete Specification as being new or as regards this same quantity of each of
these ingredients as used in this or any similar compound and with or without
being prepared with the same quantity of water or other liquid to the same strength
of the above medicine.
Third. I specially claim the bran or linseed and the black currents added to the.
above compound to be new or if not new to be an improvement on this or any
similar compound.
Fourth. I claim the whole above compound as insertd inserted above as not being
combined with any narcotics, opiates, morphian or other lulling poisonious poisonous
ingredients and consider it distinctly new or improved when compared with such
preparations.
Fifth. I claim the half dram of salt of tartar in the above compound to be new in.
this or similar compounds with or without narcotics &c.
Sixth. I claim the elecampane or its quantity in the above compound to be new
or an improvement on any similar preparation.
Seventh. I claim the half dram of salt or tartar or its quantity as used with.
the above compound of ingredients as new or an improvement on any similar
compound.
Dated this 25th day of November 1892.
THOMAS KNOWLES.