A UNIVERSAL PRESERVATIVE MEDICINE
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Athanase Victor Constant Regnauld, of 39, Rue
de l'Echiquier, Paris, in the Empire of France, & 4, South Street,
Finsbury, London, Gentleman, for the Invention of "A UNIVERSAL
PRESERVATIVE MEDICINE."
Sealed the 5th February 1858, and dated the 5th October 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Athanase Victor Constant
Regnauld at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 5th October 1857.
I, ATHANASE VICTOR CONSTANT REGNAULD, of 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris,
in the Empire of France, & 4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Gentleman,
do hereby declare the nature of my Invention of "A UNIVERSAL PRESERVATIVE
MEDICINE," to be as follows:-
The Invention consists in the mixture of various nutritious substances with
ether, to compose a hygienic cordial.
To prepare this hygienic cordial, I take about a quarter of a pint of milk,
and separate from it by known means the greasy matter, and also the caseum
contained in a liquid state therein, which I purify. I add to this liquid a
volume equal to about six cubic inches of hydrated ether, at 56° Baumé, and
leave the whole to macerate in jars during about twenty-four hours. I also
take about two ounces (apoth.) of white candy sugar, and dissolve it in about
an equal weight of distilled orange flower water, and when the solution is
complete, I purify it by filtration through paper. This being done I mix the
two solutions together.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Athanase Victor Constant Regnauld in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 27th March 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ATHANASE
VICTOR CONSTANT REGNAULD, of 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, in the Empire
of France, and 4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twenty-first year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Athanase Victor Constant Regnauld, Her special licence that I,
the said Athanase Victor Constant Regnauld, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Athanase Victor Constant
Regnauld, 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 of "A UNIVERSAL PRE-
SERVATIVE MEDICINE," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Athanase Victor Constant Regnauld, 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 Athanase Victor Constant Regnauld,
do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement, that is to say :-
My Invention consists in the combination of various substances, herein-after
stated, with hydrated ether, for the production of a hygienic cordial, or
universal preservative medicine.
I will now proceed to describe the method I have found suitable for pro-
ducing the said cordial. I take about one quarter of a pint of pure mam-
miferous milk, and separate from it by the ordinary means the fatty matters
and the substance called caseum, which being done, I purify the liquid part
as usual, and add to it rectified hydrated ether at fifty degrees Beaumé, equal
in volume to about six cubic inches, and leave the whole to macerate in a

page_text: suitable vessel during twenty-four hours. I also take about one ounce six
drams (apoth.) of white sugar candy, and mix with it about two ounces apoth.
of distilled orange flower water, and when the solution is complete, I purify it
by filtration through paper. This operation being finished, I add the solution
to the ether mixture.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I do not confine
myself to the aforesaid agents, or their proportions, or to the mode of preparing
the same; but what I claim is, the combination of the substances herein-
before stated, or substances having analogous properties, for the production of
an bygienic cordial, or universal preservative medicine.
In witness whereof, I, the said Athanase Victor Constant Regnauld
have hereto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of March,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-
eight.
Witness,
M. F. MENNONS.
A. V. C. REGNAULD. (L.s.)