Year: 1887

page_text: [Communicated from abroad by JOSEPH A. SEWALL, of Boulder, Colorado, and
W. H. STENNETT, of Chicago, Illinois, both in the United States of America.]
1, JOHN EVERITT, of 11 Wood Street, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, 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 is designed to provide a medicinal compound for the treatment or
prevention of all diseases to which swine, cattle, horses, mules, sheep, fowls and other
animals are subject, which are caused by, or dependent upon, bacteria, microbes,
bacillus, vibrios, micrococci, monads, or other germs in the blood, or other vital fluids,
of said animals and of all diseases in said animals that are dependent upon blood
poisoning by living germs. Among such diseases are those known by the following
names, that is to say -Hog cholera, swine plague, swine fever, swine pest, pig
distemper, rouget, blue sickness, rothlang, blue disease, purples, red soltheria, soldier,
anthrax fever, red soldier, bristle fever, epizootic catarrh, pleuro-enteritis, charbon,
rinderpest, Texas fever, blood disease, splenic fever, fowl cholera, chicken cholera, hen
pest, maladie du sang, sang de rate, septicaemia, etc, etc, in all of which my medicine
will be found efficacious as a remedy or preventive.
In carrying my invention into practice I use, by preference, the following ingredients,
in or about in the proportions specified, that is to say :-
Biborate of Sodium
Boric Acid
Iodine
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1000 parts.
100 parts.
1 part.

page_text: two first-named ingredients and the vehicle are to be, separately, finely powdered and
then thoroughly mixed, combined and mingled into a common powder. The Iodine
is to be dissolved in alcohol and then mixed with the common powder named above.
As equivalents of the said ingredients, I name Borate of Soda, Biborate of Soda,
Borax (Na O, 2 BO: 10 H.O.), Borate de Soude, Boraxsaure, Boraxsaures Natron,
Boracic Acid, and all combinations, compounds and mixtures of Boracic or Boric
Acid, and Soda or Sodium. For a full grown adult hog the dose of my combination
or prepared remedy is sixty (60) troy grains and for other animals the dose is in
proportion to their size, age, constitution and the character of the disease for which it
is given.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed as communicated to me by my
Foreign Correspondents I declare that what I claim is :—
First. As a medicine or remedy, the combination of the following ingredients in
about the proportions specified-viz :-Biborate of Sodium 1000 parts, Boric Acid 100
parts (or their equivalents as specified), Iodine 1 part, and a suitable and convenient
vehicle, substantially as set forth.
Second. As a medicine or remedy, the combination of the following ingredients, in
about the proportions specified, viz-Biborate of Sodium 1000 parts, Boric Acid 100
parts (or their equivalents as specified) Iodine 1 part, and Spanish Whiting 1100 parts,
substantially as set forth.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London,
Agents for the Applicant.