A New and Improved Utilization of Liquorice and other Ingredients for the Manufacture of Certain Medicinal Compounds.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Mar., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 21st Dec., 1893-Accepted, 10th Feb., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New and Improved Utilization of Liquorice and other Ingredients
for the Manufacture of Certain Medicinal Compounds.
I, EDWARD MANDALL, Tower Works, Stockton on Tees, in the County of
Durham, Chemist do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
I take a strong decoction of the best liquorice root, and after prolonged boiling
strain the same; the strained product is then evaporated in suitable vessels until
reduced to the condition of a liquid extract. I further take a quantity of Irish or
Iceland moss and boil it for a considerable time in steam-jacketed pans until it
forms a thick mucilage after being strained and cooled to 60° Fahren. I also use
a proportion of gum arabic, which is boiled carefully in steam pans, until perfectly
dissolved, then strained through a fine sieve and this solution I mix with the above
mucilage of Irish or Iceland moss, and add in proper proportions the liquid
extract of liquorice named above, and chemically pure glycerine, forming a smooth
demulcent mixture. I further add to the above mixture the following drugs in proper
officinal doses, chloroform, and morphine acetate, syrup of squills, camphor, syrup
of marshmallow, ipecacuanha wine or antimonial wine; these when thoroughly
mixed by long agitation with the distillate from star aniseeds, gum benjamin, make
a liquid medicinal compound which possesses the valuable properties of the above
named medicines in an effective and convenient form.
I farther make an improved medicinal lozenge or jujube by exposing the above-
named liquid medicinal compound in shallow vessels, to dry warm air in a chamber
heated to 120° Fahrenheit.
Dated this Twenty-second day of March 1893.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New and Improved Utilization of Liquorice and other Ingredients
for the Manufacture of Certain Medicinal Compounds.
I, EDWARD MANDALL, of Tower Works, Stockton on Tees, County of Durham,
Chemist, 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 :-
I take a strong decoction of the best liquorice root and after prolonged boiling
strain the same, the strained product is then evaporated in suitable vessels until
reduced to the condition of a liquid extract. I further take a quantity of Irish
moss and boil it for a considerable time in steam jacketed pans until it forms when
strained and cooled to 60° Fahr. thick mucilage.
I also use a proportion of gum arabic, which is boiled carefully in steam-jacketed
pans until perfectly dissolved then strained through a fine sieve, and this solution
I mix with the above mucilage of Irish moss, and add in proper proportions the
liquid extract of liquorice described above, and chemically pure glycerine; forming
a smooth demulcent mixture.
I further add to the above named mixture the following drugs in proper
officinal doses, chloroform and morphine in the form of chlorodyne B.P., syrup of

page_text: squills, syrup of marshmallow and ipecacuanha wine or antimonial wine, oil of
aniseed, spirit of camphor and benzoic acid; these when thoroughly mixed
together by long agitation make a liquid medicinal compound which possesses the
valuable properties of the above named medicines in an effective and convenient
form.
In order that the above statement may be readily understood I will now give
the formula I prefer to use
I further make an improved medicinal lozenge or jujube by exposing the afore-
mentioned compound in shallow vessels to dry warm air in a chamber heated to
about 120° Fahrenheit.
The said medicinal compounds are intended for the cure of coughs, colds,
hoarseness, and bronchitis, by their therapeutical and mechanical action."
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
:-
The utilization of liquorice and other ingredients for the manufacture of certain
medicinal compounds substantially as described.
Dated this 21st day of December 1893.
REGINALD W. BARKER,
Applicant's Agent.