IMPROVEMENTS IN Cos- LETICS
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henrik Galın, of Upsala, in the Kingdom of
Sweden, Gentleman, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN Cos-
LETICS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henrik Gahn at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
25th April 1872.
I, HENRIK GAHN, of Upsala, in the Kingdom of Sweden, Gentleman,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVÉMENTS IN
COSMETICS," to be as follows:―
This Invention has for its object improvements in cosmetics called
amykos.
The amykos is a chemical preparation made partly as simple partly as
concentrated amykos. Common to both is a decoction of cloves at the
rate of 1 to 14 ozs. avoirdupois to an imperial gallon of water, in which
are dissolved from to 14 ozs. chemically pure glycerine.
Simple amykos is prepared by dissolving in said decoction from
to 7 ozs. chemically pure boracic acid, to which for obtaining a

page_text: more pleasant smell and taste a small quantity of oils of ether are
added.
Concentrated amykos is made by dissolving in a gallon of the above
decoction from 1 to 15 ozs. borax or soda, and from 1 to 18 ozs.
chemically pure boracic acid.
The above preparations, in consequence of their property of abso-
lutely killing and keeping away insects injurious to the human body,
are used as cosmetics and employed in this quality, partly as gargles
for washing the teeth and rinsing the whole of the mouth, partly as
lotions for moistening the skin, and partly as hair wash for wetting and 1
rubbing into the hair and the scalp.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henrik Gahn in the Great Scal Patent Office on
the 24th October 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRIK
GAHN, of Upsala, in the Kingdom of Sweden, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the
thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Henrik Gahn, Her special license
that I, the said Henrik Gahn, my exccutors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Henrik Gahn, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN COSMETICS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Henrik Gahn,
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

page_text: 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 Henrik Gahn, 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
following statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in cosmetics.
The amykos is a chemical preparation made partly as simple partly
as concentrated amykos. Common to both is a decoction of cloves at
the rate of 1 to 14 oz. avoirdupois to an imperial gallon of water, in
which are dissolved from '/, to 14 oz. chemically pure glycerine.
Simple amykos is prepared by dissolving in said decoction from
½ to 7 oz. chemically pure boracic acid, to which for obtaining a
more pleasant smell and taste a small quantity of ethereal oils are
added.
Concentrated amykos is made by dissolving in a gallon of the above
decoction from 1 to 15 oz. borax or soda, and from 1 to 18 oz.
chemically pure boracic acid.
The above preparations, in consequence of their property of abso-
lutely killing and keeping away insects injurious to the human body,
are used as cosmetics and employed in this quality, partly as gargles for
washing the teeth and rinsing the whole of the mouth, partly as lotions
for moistening the skin, and partly as hair wash for wetting and rubbing
into the hair and the scalp.
What I claim is, the preparation of cosmetics, substantially as
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henrik Gahn, have hercunto set
my hand and scal, this Ninth day of October, in the year of our