A NEW OR IMPROVED PURIFYING AND PRESERVATIVE LOTION FOR THE MOUTH
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Denton Abel; of No.. 20,. Southampton
Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex; Patent-Agent, -
for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED PURIFYING AND PRESERVATIVE
LOTION FOR THE MOUTH."-A communication from abroad by Johann
Georg Popp, Dentist, residing at Vienna, in the Empire of Austria..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Denton Abel
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
- 26th September 1862.
I, CHARLES DENTON ABEL, of No. 20, Southampton Buildings, Chancery.
Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED PURIFYING AND PRE-
SERVATIVE LOTION FOR THE MOUTH," to be as follows:-
I firstly mix together one ounce of each of the following ingredients,
namely, cochlearia, vine tendrils, rose leaves, pyrethrum, pounded Peruvian
bark, earth moss, and scraped horseradish; to these I add thirty-two ounces
of alcohol, of eighteen degrees strength, and thirty-two ounces of distilled
water. This mixture is then allowed to stand for about a fortnight in a warm
place; at the end of this time I add to the mixture one ounce of anatherus

page_text: root, and one ounce of pounded cloves, and again let it stand for another
fortnight or three weeks, shaking it up frequently during that time. The
fluid portion of the mixture is then separated by filtration, and to this is added
two ounces of tincture of myrrh, two ounces of tincture of guajaci, and two
ounces of tincture of cinnamon. The lotion is then bottled, and is fit for use.
The use of this lotion has the effect of sweetening the breath, strengthening
and fixing the gums, and freeing and preserving the mouth and gums generally
from all humours.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Denton Abel in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 25th March 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
DENTON ABEL, of No. 20, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign,. did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Charles Denton Abel, Her special licence that I, the said Charles
Denton Abel, my exccutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Charles Denton Abel, 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 Inven-
tion for "A NEW OR IMPROVED PURIFYING AND PRESERVATIVE LOTION FOR THE
MOUTH," a communication to me from abroad, by Johann Georg Popp, Dentist,
residing at Vienna, in the Empire of Austria, upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Charles Denton Abel, 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 Inven-
tion, 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 Charles Denton Abel, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is.

page_text: to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention consists in the preparation of a mixture of certain ingredients
to be herein-after described, and in the employment of the same as a purifying
and preservative lotion for the mouth. For this purpose I firstly mix together
one ounce of each of the following ingredients, namely, cochlearia, vine
tendrils, rose leaves, pyrethrum, pounded Peruvian bark, earth moss, and
scraped horseradish; to these I add thirty-two ounces of alcohol, of eighteen
degrees strength, and thirty-two ounces of distilled water. This mixture is
then allowed to stand for about a fortnight in a warm place; at the end of this
time I add to the mixture one ounce of root of anatherum, and one ounce of
pounded cloves, and again let it stand for another fortnight or three weeks,
shaking it up frequently during that time. The fluid portion of the mixture is
then separated by filtration, and to this is added two ounces of tincture of
myrrh, two ounces of tincture of guajaci, and two ounces of tincture of
cinnamon. The lotion is then bottled, and is fit for use. The employment
of this lotion has the effect of sweetening the breath, strengthening and fixing
the gums, and of freeing and preserving the mouth and gums generally-from-
all bumours.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention as communicated
to me by my foreign correspondent, I wish it to be understood that I do not
limit myself to the exact proportions of the various ingredients as herein-before
set forth; but what I claim is, the preparation of a mixture composed of the
various ingredients herein-before mentioned, and the employment of the same
as a purifying and preservative lotion for the mouth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Denton Abel, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
CHARLES D. ABEL. (L.S.)