A LIQUID PRE- PARATION TO BE EMPLOYED AS A MEANS FOR THE CURE OF DISORDERS of THE HUMAN EYE
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Priestland, of Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, Manufacturer, for the Invention of " A LIQUID PRE-
PARATION TO BE EMPLOYED AS A MEANS FOR THE CURE OF DISORDERS of
THE HUMAN EYE."
Sealed the 7th May 1875, and dated the 12th November 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Priestland at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 12th November 1874.
I, THOMAS PRIESTLAND, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
5 Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
* A LIQUID PREPARATION TO BE EMPLOYED AS A MEANS FOR THE CURE OF DISORDERS
OF THE HUMAN EYE," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in the compounding of an improved preser-
vative and curative liquid preparation or decoction to be used as a wash
or lotion for weak or dim eyes, and for the cure of disorders or diseases
of the human eye.

page_text: The improved preparation is compounded of the following ingredients
and proportions, namely:-Of white copperas and of orris root of each
about two ounces, and of white sugar-candy (or other pure saccharine
matter) about four ounces, mixed with one gallon of pure distilled water.
These ingredients (the proportions of which it may in certain cases be
found desirable to vary) are to be boiled together for a suitable time, and
then strained. The improved liquid resulting therefrom may be applied
to the eye with soft linen or with other suitable material or substance.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Priestland in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 8th May 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
PRIESTLAND, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of November, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Priestland, Her special licence
that I, the said Thomas Priestland, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Thomas Priestland, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "A LIQUID PREPARATION TO
BE EMPLOYED AS A MEANS FOR THE CURE OF DISORDERS OF THE HUMAN EYE,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Thomas Priestland,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Priestland, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement in writing, that is to say:—
This Invention relates to and consists in the compounding and making
of an improved preservative and curative liquid preparation or decoction
to be used or applied as a wash or lotion for weak or dim eyes, and for
the cure of disorders or diseases of the human eye.
The improved preparation is compounded and made of the following
ingredients and in the following proportions, namely:-Of white cop-
peras and of orris root of each about two ounces, and of white sugar-
candy (or other pure saccharine matter) about four ounces, and the
whole is to be mixed with one gallon of pure distilled water. These
ingredients (the proportions of which it may in certain cases be found
desirable to vary) are to be boiled together for a suitable time, and then
strained. The improved liquid resulting therefrom may be applied to
the eye with soft linen or other suitable material or substance.
Having now particularly described the nature and object of my said
Invention, together with the manner in which the same is to be or may
be performed or carried into practical effect, I would remark in con-
clusion that I claim as my Invention, the preparation and application or
use of the improved preservative and curative liquid, compounded
substantially as herein-before described for the cure of disorders or
diseases of the human eye.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Priestland, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this First day of May, in the year of our
Land One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.
Witness,
JOHN KENDRICK.
THOMAS PRIESTLAND. (L.S.)