Dietetic Improvements in Food Preparations, suitable for Making Porridge and the like.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Aug., 1889
'Complete Specification Left, 23rd Apr., 1890-Accepted, 14th June, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Dietetic Improvements in Food Preparations, suitable for Making
Porridge and the like.
1 DENNIS TURNBULL, M.D., LL.D., Licentiate of the Royal Colleges of Physicians
and Surgeons of Edinburgh, practising as a Physician, at No. 2, Bayshill Terrace,
Cheltenham, in the County of Gloucester, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion to be as follows:-
Dietetic improvements in food preparations, suitable for making Porridge and the
like, is prepared from four parts of rough Scotch oatmeal, two parts of the best white
wheat bran, and one part of the best Egyptian lentils, all ground into the finest flour.
This composition is most appetising, and digestible; and, therefore it is most
suitable for invalids.
Dated this 17th day of August 1889.
DENNIS TURNBULL,
2, Bayshill Terrace, Cheltenham.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Dietetic Improvements in Food Preparations, suitable for Making
Porridge and the like.
DENNIS TURNBULL, M.D., LL.D., Licentiate of the Royal Colleges of Physicians
and Surgeons of Edinburgh, practising as a Physician, at No. 2, Bayshill Terrace,
Cheltenham, in the County of Gloucester, do hereby declare the nature of this inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The invention is prepared from four parts of rough Scotch oatmeal, two parts of the
best white wheat bran, and one part of the best Egyptian lentils; all of these ingre-
dients are ground into the finest flour. There is not anything in this preparation to
irritate the mucous membrane of the stomach, nor any other part of the human
frame.
Having proved in my lengthened experience of the medical profession, that the
rough Scotch oatmeal was highly objectionable to hundreds of people, I determined
to find out something much more agreeable to the human stomach, and of course
benefit humanity at large. Hence my Invention, simple as it appears on paper, is
truly the culmination of my wishes, because it meets the necessities of the body in an
eminent degree.
I claim special advantages for this Invention.
1st. This preparation of Porridge food, is absolutely devoid of chaff, and all offensive
matter of that kind. All the grains are most carefully ground into an impalpable
powder; thus by these means, there is nothing in this preparation prejudicial to the
human frame: consequently, the most delicate stomachs are able to use this Dietetic
food with impunity.
2nd. This Dietetic Porridge food embodies all the necessary elements, so eminently
analified to build in and auntain the human

page_text: 3rd. The chief novelty of this Invention arises from the fact that it meets all the
daily wants of mankind in a natural and scientific manner, without incurring any risk
of deranging the human stomach, in the slightest form whatever.
I am not aware of any other preparation of Porridge food extanct, pregnant with
the advantages set forth in this specification. It is what I have stated it to be, the
most natural and beneficial food I am acquainted with at the present time.
Dated this 19th day of April 1890.
DENNIS TURNBULL.