IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF CASTOR, COD LIVER, AND OTHER COMPLETE OTHER MEDICINAL OILS, IN ORDER TO RENDER THE SAME MORE PALATABLE
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Wakefield Fox, of Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Colliery Furnisher, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF CASTOR, COD LIVER, AND OTHER
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said George Wakefield
Fox at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition and Declaration, on the 16th June 1869, pursuant to the
9th Section of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
WAKEFIELD Fox, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Colliery
Furnisher, send greeting:-
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE TREATMENT OF CASTOR, COD LIVER, AND OTHER MEDICINAL OILS, IN ORDER
TO RENDER THE SAME MORE PALATABLE," and have petitioned Her Majesty
to grant unto me, my executors, administrators, and assigns, Her
Royal Letters Patent for the same, and have made solemn Declaration
that I am the true and first Inventor thereof.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Wakefield Fox, do hereby
declare the following Complete Specification, under my hand and

page_text: seal, fully describes and ascertains the nature of the said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed in and by the following
statement
My Invention relates to the castor oil, cod liver oil, or other oil
employed for medicinal purposes and more particularly in cases where
the oil is required to be swallowed, and consists of a method of treating
or preparing the said oil or oils, the object of the said treatment being
to neutralise or disguise the nauseous properties possessed in a greater or
lesser degree by all the said oils, and thereby to render the said oils more
palatable.
When carrying my said Invention into effect I operate upon the said
oil as for example, cod liver oil, either in its ordinary "commercial" state
or after being more or less purified or refined by any of the ordinary
processes or by any process suitable to the subsequent treatment of the
said oil, the form or condition of the purified or refined oil which I have
found to be suitable being that known as the "etherised." I take the
said oil in either of the said forms or conditions, and I mix therewith
a sweet syrup made from honey, sugar, malt, some descriptions
of fruit, or from other saccheriferous materials capable of yielding
a sweet and wholesome syrup, and I also mix therewith a portion of
fruit or vegetable acid, as for example, citric or tartaric acid, lemon or
lime juice, or other suitable acid; and I also mix therewith a portion
of aromatic, essential oil, tincture, or essence, such as will impart to the
said mixture an agreeable flavour, as for example, of lemon, citron,
orange, cinnamon, cloves, anniseed, peppermint, or almond, or in
lieu of the oils, tinctures, or essences obtained from the natural spice or
fruit I use artificial preparations, as for example, the artificial essence of
pine apple or of other fruit. In selecting any of the afore-mentioned
substances I prefer to use such as will be wholesome and will not inter-
fere with the beneficial action of the oil, or I select such as are con-
sidered to have a beneficial action on the human system. The sweet
syrup or syrups, the acid or acids, and the flavouring matter or matters
selected from those indicated herein-before may be combined with the
oil in various proportions to suit the tastes or requirements of different
consumers, as for example, in the preperation of oil specially adapted to
be consumed by infants, the proportion of sweet syrup may be increased
and the proportion of acid be reduced as compared with the proportions
employed when preparing oil adapted to be consumed by adults. The
proportions of the ingredients in a preperation which I have found to be

page_text: suitable for general use are as follows, namely:-Four ounces of sweet
syrup, as for example, the syrup prepared by confectioners; ten grains
of citric or tartaric acid; fifteen drops of essence of lemon or of citron;
four ounces of cod liver oil, castor oil, or other medicinal oil, as required.
It may be desirable in order to render the mixture more palatable to
employ two or more varieties of sweet, syrup, acid, or flavouring matter
in combination with the oil as aforesaid.
When preparing the aforesaid mixture for sale I prefer to "put it up
in green bottles or in bottles otherwise colored, each bottle bearing the
name of the oil contained therein with the prefix palatable, as for
exam le, "palatable cod liver oil."
Having now described the nature of my said Invention and means for
carrying the same into practical effect, I would have it to be distinctly
understood that I claim the treatment or preperation of cod liver oil,
castor oil, and other medicinal oils employed as aforesaid in manner sub-
stantially as herein-before described, that is to say, the admixture there-
with of a sweet syrup, or of sweet syrups of a vegetable or fruit acid, or
of vegetable or fruit acids, and of a flavouring matter or of flavouring
matters of the kind or kinds herein mentioned or indicated, in order not
only to neutralise or disguise the nauseous taste and odour of the said
oils, but to render them pleasing or comparitively pleasing to the palate
and to the olfactory organs.
In witness whereof, I, the George Wakefield Fox, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
GEORGE WAKEFIELD FOX. (L.S.)
Signed and sealed by the said
George Wakefield Fox in
the presence of
EDWARD K. DUTTON,
Agent to the Petitioner,
8, Smithy Door,
Manchester.