Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Jan., 1888
Complete Left, 4th Apr., 1888
Complete Accepted, 4th May, 1888
I JOHN DAKEYNE GALE PEROY GALE and WILLIAM MORGAN all of the Firm of
Gale and Co. of 15 Bouverie Street Fleet Street in the City of London wholesale
Chemists and Druggists do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as
follows:-
This Invention has for its object to improve suppositories so that the matter they
are to convey to the system is more readily assimilated than has hitherto been the case
and so also that the said suppositories can be applied with great case and without
special apparatus.
According to this Invention the body part of the suppository is made of cocoa-
butter or the like but it is not made with an opening closed by a stopper in the usual
way but has an orifice in its rear end resembling somewhat a thimble so that it can
be placed on the finger for application. The medicinal or alimentary matter which it
is the office of the suppository to convey to the system (such for instance as Cocaine
and Boric Acid) may be compounded with or contained in the substance of the
suppository itself.
1000
J. H. JOHNSON & Co.,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London.

page_text: 'Improvements in Suppositories.
We JOHN DAKEYNE GALE, PERCY GALE and WILLIAM MORGAN all of the firm
of Gale and Co. of 15 Bouveric Street Fleet Street in the City of London Wholesale
Chemists Druggist 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 :-
This Invention has for its object to improve suppositories (called also obstetric
cones) so that the matter they are to convey to the system is more readily assimilated
than has hitherto been the case and so also that the said suppositories can be applied
with great ease and without special apparatus.
According to this Invention the body part of the suppository is made of cocoa-
butter or the like but it is not made with an opening closed by a stopper in the usual
way but has an orifice in its rear end resembling somewhat a thimble so that it can be
placed on the finger for application. Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing is a
perspective view of a suppository made according to this Invention and Figure 2 is a
section showing the suppository held on the finger for application. The orifice
referred to in which the finger is inserted is marked a. The medicinal or alimentary
matter which it is the office of the suppository to convey to the system (such for
instance as cocaine and Boric Acid) may be compounded with or contained in the
substance of the suppository itself.
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. A suppository consisting of a combination in one mass of cocoa-butter or tho
like and cocaine or Boric acid or other medicinal or alimentary matter, substantially
as and for the purpose hereinbefore described.
2. A suppository consisting of a body part of cocoa-butter or its equivalent with
medicinal or alimentary matter and provided with an opening a at the end substan-
tially as and for the purpose herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawing.
D
41 1
1000