New or improved tonic lozenge, candy or compound for indigestion, lung and liver complaints
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Aug., 1887
Complete Left, 20th Apr., 1888
Complete Accepted, 1st June, 1888
I, THOMAS NEEDHAM of Buxton Road, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, Chemist do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to the manufacture of a new or improved medicinal
beverage composed principally of the same substances specified in a prior application
for a Patent made by me on the 25th day of January 1887 No. 1136 for a "New or
improved tonic lozenge, candy or compound for indigestion, lung and liver
complaints."
The specification in the above application set forth the use of Malt, Hops, Dandelion
Chamomile and Mandrake made up in the form of a lozenge, or candy, or compound
for stimulating the stomach to aid digestion, and for acting beneficially upon the
lungs and liver, I find that a compound made or composed of the above named
substances, with the addition of ginger, or its equivalent, made up in the form
of a beverage, is extremely beneficial for the complaints named, and my present
invention consists in forming a mixture or decoction of such substances, which
mixture or decoction may afterwards be aerated and worked or brewed with yeast or
other suitable substance according as the various tastes and preferments of persons
require it.
Bottles dosed with a small quantity of the mixture or compound, and aerated, or
the mixture, compound, or decoction, worked or brewed and afterwards bottled
or made up in casks, forms in either case a pleasant beverage, which, besides being
taken as an ordinary beverage, can be taken for stimulating the stomach to aid
digestion, and to act upon the lungs and liver.
To the above named chemical or medicinal substances or any combination thereof
may be added, Wines, Spirits, Syrups, or other liquids used as beverages in order to
give flavour and body to my improved beverage.
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Halifax, Agents.

page_text: I THOMAS NEEDHAM of Buxton Road in Huddersfield in the County of York
Chemist and Druggist 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 :-
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This Invention relates to liquids to which I apply the term "Castle Ale" as
beverage to be used for the stomach and liver for the reason that it contains substances
which are highly valuable as stomachic and liver invigorators.
My said Invention consists in the combination of substances or preparations
hereinafter specified, with water, wine or any spirituous liquor, syrup, or other liquid
used as beverages, which beverages may or may not contain any desirable bitter
or tonic substances.
The substances or preparations which I employ for the manufacture of my improved
Beverage are malt, hops, dandelion, camomile and mandrake. The chief object of the
said invention is the production of an aerated beverage prepared from the above
named articles so as to contain their medicinal virtues, to act as a stimulant to the
stomach and liver, and to be free from alcohol.
In practising my Invention I prefer to proceed as follows, that is to say :-I heat
filtered water to from 170 degrees to 190 degrees Fahrenheit, and pour this water
over the best malt, and allow it to stand twelve hours or upwards. I then strain off
the liquor, pour it over a quantity of hops, and heat it to about 180 degrees
Fahrenheit for about thirty minutes. I then strain the compound, and add sugar to
the liquor. To this liquor I add a certain quantity of bi-borate of soda, which I
find answers exceedingly well to preserve the diastase, and to check the action of
fermentation. I have now prepared a syrup, and to this syrup I add a strong
decoction of dandelion, camomile and mandrake. The compound liquid I have now
prepared may be coloured with cochineal or other harmless pigment. It is necessary
that the various processes I have described should take place in the order I have laid
down, as in this manner the best medicinal properties of the substances employed can
be preserved.
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The bottles or other vessels used for containing the improved Beverage are dosed
with a suitable quantity of this syrup, which is then aerated in the manner usually
employed in aerating liquids, that is to say, by the use of water charged with carbonic
acid gas.
I prefer that the aerated water used for this purpose should be filtered and
perfectly free from alkilinity, as I can thus secure the finest flavour, and retain
the best medicinal properties of my Beverage.
Although I prefer to use bi-borate of soda to preserve the diastase, and to check the
action of fermentation, yet I wish it to be understood that I might use acids or other
alkalis for these purposes, but do not believe that any of them would so well produce
the results at which I aim.

page_text: But although I consider that the most advantageous results may be obtained by
applying my invention to the manufacture or preparation of aerated beverages, yet I
wish it understood that I may also prepare my improved Beverages for restorative,
medicinal or curative purposes without aerating the same, the peculiar, novel, and
important feature of the said Invention being the combination of malt, hops,
dandelion, camomile and mandrake as above specified with the liquid to form
a beverage, whether the same be aerated, brewed or otherwise.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion, I would have it understood that I do not confine myself to the exact ingredients
set forth, nor to the exact proportions I have used, that is to say :-in making the
syrup to each gallon of water two pounds of malt, from two to four ounces of hops
three pounds of sugar, one ounce of bi-borate of soda, and one and a quarter ounces
of an essence or decoction extracted from dandelion, camomile and mandrake. I then
dose a five ounce bottle with one ounce of the syrup, and a ten ounce bottle with from
one and a half ounces to two ounces of the same; but what I claim is
The making of a syrup from malt, hops, dandelion, camomile and mandrake for the
purpose of manufacturing medicated beverages, whether the same be aerated, brewed
or otherwise produced, in such manner that the same shall not colourably differ from
the proportions and processes set forth in this specification.
Dated this Nineteenth day of April One thousand eight hundred and eighty