IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE PREPARA PREPARATION OF Smeer's Week FOR MEDICAL PURPoons
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Buxton, of Lime Tree Lodge, Rotherhithe,
in the County of Surrey, Wool Merchant, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE PREPARA
PREPARATION OF Smeer's Week FOR MEDICAL PURPoons,
"
Sealed the 13th April 1865, and-dated the 19th October 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Buxton at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 19th
October 1864.
I, WILLIAM BUXTON, of Lime Tree Lodge, Rotherhithe, in the County of
Surrey, Wool Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION OF SHEEP'S WOOL FOR MEDICAL PURPOSES,"
to be as follows:-
I take sheep's wool in the raw state, as it comes from the animal, with the
natural animal oil or grease in it, and I add thereto a solution obtained by
dissolving camphor in spirits of wine. Of this solution I apply, say, 2 oz. to
1 lb. of the wool, but these proportions may be varied. I then comb this
wool, by preference by hand combing, in order to avoid the necessity for
previous washing or for the addition of other oils generally required in
mechanical combing.
The wool thus treated and brought into a sliver is applicable for use as a
bandage to parts of the body afflicted with gout, diptheria, bronchitis, rheu-
matism, rheumatic gout, neuralgia, lumbago,. and other diseases the result
of cold.

page_text: I prefer to employ that description of wool obtained from half-bred sheep,
a cross between the South Down and Leicester, or between the Cheviot and
Leicester.
-SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Buxton in the Great Seal Patent Office on the-
19th April 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
BUXTON, of Lime Tree Lodge, Rotherhithe, in the County of Surrey, Wool
Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date .the Nineteenth day of October, in the year of our, Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-eighth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me the said William Buxton, Her special licence that I, the said William
Buxton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others- as I, the
said William Buxton, 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE PREPARATION OF SHEEP'S WOOL FOR MEDICAL PURPOSES," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Buxton, 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..
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Buxton, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the fol-
lowing statement thereof, that is to say:-
In carrying out my improvements in the preparation of sheep's wool for
medical purposes I take sheep's wool in the raw state as it comes from the
animal,-with-the-natural animal oil or grease in it, and I add thereto a solution
obtained by dissolving camphor in spirits of wine. Of this solution I apply,

page_text: say, 2 oz. to 1 lb. of the wool, but these proportions may be varied. I then
comb this wool, by preference by hand combing, in order to avoid the necessity
for previous washing or for the addition of other oils generally required in
mechanical combing.
The wool thus treated and brought into a sliver is applicable for use as a
bandage to parts of the body afflicted with gout, diptheria, bronchitis, sprains,
affections of the chest, rheumatism, rheumatic gout, neuralgia, lumbago, and
other diseases the result of cold.
I prefer to employ that description of wool obtained from half-bred sheep,
a cross between the South Down and Leicester, or between the Cheviot and
Leicester.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Buxton, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Seventeenth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
WILLIAM BUXTON. (L.S.)