AN IMPROVED PREPARATION OR PILL FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to l'age Dewing Woodcock, of Lincoln, in the
County of Lincoln, Chemist, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
PREPARATION OR PILL FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES, HEREBY DENOMINATED
Scaled the 12th February 1853, and dated the 3rd December 1852.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Page Dewing
Woodcock at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
his Petition, on the 3rd December 1852.
I, PAGE DEWING WOODCOCK, of Lincoln, in the County of Lincoln,
Chemist, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN
IMPROVED PREPARATION OR PILL FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES, HEREBY DENOMI-
NATED PAGE WOODCOCK'S WIND PILLS," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in a new combination of drugs or medi-
cinal preparations made into the form of pills, for the relief and cure
of the following diseases; namely, for the dispersion of accumulated
gaseous matter or air, familiarly known as wind in the stomach and
bowels, and giddiness of the head; also for diseases known as heart-
burn, indigestion, disturbed sleep, palpitation of the heart, colic,
gout, jaundice, dropsy, asthma, ague, sore throat, biliousness, erysi-

page_text: pelas, lumbago, piles, tic douloureux, scurvy, and other eruptions of
the skin; as well as for all complaints of the liver, and for the dis-
cases peculiar to women, and known as female complaints. They are
also applicable for the relief and cure of inany other bodily diseases.
I form a combination of drugs, or medicinal preparations in
the following proportions (that is to say): -Ten ounces of the
extract of gentian roots, with seven ounces of the extract of
chamomile flowers, four ounces of the powder of extract of aloes,
four ounces of the powder of Turkey rhubarb roots, two ounces
of the powder of Jamaica ginger roots, two ounces of the powder
of gum myrrh, four ounces of the powder of Castile soap, one
ounce and a half of the powder of ipecacuanha roots, two ounces
of the compound extract of colocynth fruit or pulp; one drachm of
the essential oils of peppermint and of anniseeds.
The whole of these ingredients are then well beaten and incor-
porated together in a mortar into one uniform mass (without the
aid of any further addition), of which mass one drachm is to be ac-
curately divided into twenty-four pills of equal size and weight, so
that each pill may contain two and a half grains of the above com-
pound.
The weights, measures, and medicinal preparations herein spoken
of are those respectively authorized by, and prepared according to
the formula of, the Apothecaries Company of London.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Page Dewing Woodcock in the Great Seal 2
Patent Office on the 3rd June 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
PAGE DEWING WOODCOCK, of Lincoln, in the County of Lincoln,
Chemist, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Third day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in the

page_text: sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Page Dewing Woodcock, Her
special license that I, the said Page Dewing Woodcock, my exe-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Page Dewing Woodcock, 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 night make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and
Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED PREPARATION OR PILL FOR
MEDICINAL PURPOSES, HEREBY DENOMINATED PAGE WOODCOCK'S WIND PILLS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Page Dewing
Woodcock, by an instrument in writing under my hand and scal,
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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Page Dewing Woodcock,
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 (that is to say):
My Invention consists of a new combination of drugs, medicines,
or medicinal preparations made into the form of pills for the relief
and cure of the following bodily diseases, disorders, or complaints.
For the dispersion of accumulated gaseous matter or air generated.
internally, and commonly and familiarly known as wind in the sto-
mach and bowels, and giddiness of the head; also for discases or
ailments known as heartburn, indigestion, disturbed sleep, palpitation
of the heart, colic, gout, jaundice, dropsy, asthma, sore throat, ague,
biliousness, erysipelas, lumbago, piles, tic douloureux, scurvy, and
other eruptions of the skin; as well as for all complaints and dis-
orders of the liver, and for the diseases or irregularities peculiar to
women, and known as female complaints. They are also applicable
and beneficial for the relief and cure of many other bodily discases,
ailments, disorders, or complaints.

page_text: 1 form a combination of drugs, medicines, or medicinal prepara-
tions, in the following exact proportions (that is to say):-I mix
or incorporate together ten ounces of the extract of gentian roots,
with seven ounces of the extract of chainomile flowers, four ounces
of the powder of extract of aloes, four ounces of the powder of
Turkey rhubarb roots, two ounces of the powder of Jamaica ginger
roots, two ounces of the powder of gum myrrh, four ounces of the
powder of Castile soap, one ounce and a half of the powder of ipeca-
cuanha roots, two ounces of the compound extract of colocynth
fruit or pulp, and one drachm of each of the essential oils of pepper-
mint and of anniseed.
The whole of these ingredients are then well beaten, mixed, blended,
and incorporated together in a mortar or other suitable utensil into
one uniform mass, so that all parts of such mass shall contain the
same proportion of the before mentioned ingredients (without the
aid of any further addition whatever), of which mass one drachin is
to be accurately divided into twenty-four pills of equal size and
weight, so that each pill may contain two and a half grains of the
before mentioned compound.
The drugs, medicines, or medicinal preparations, as also the
weights and measures herein spoken of, are those respectively au-
thorized by, and prepared according to the formula and directions
of, the Apothecaries Company of London.
I claim as iny Invention the combination of the before mentioned
well known drugs, inedicines, or medicinal preparations for the relief
and cure of the aforesaid bodily diseases and complaints.
In witness whereof, I, the said Page Dewing Woodcock, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this First day of June, A.D.
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
PAGE DEWING WOODCOCK. (L.S.)