A- NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF APPLYING MAGNETISM IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTICLES OF FOOD FOR MEDICINAL And other PuRPOSES."
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Darlow and Henry Fairfax, of No. 443,
Strand, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "A-
NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF APPLYING MAGNETISM IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF ARTICLES OF FOOD FOR MEDICINAL And other PuRPOSES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Darlow and
Henry Fairfax at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 8th June 1875.
We, WILLIAM DARLOW and HENRY FAIRFAX, of No. 443, Strand,
in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF APPLYING MAGNETISM IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF ARTICLES OF FOOD FOR MEDICINAL AND OTHER PURPOSES," to be
as follows:-
Magnetism has hitherto been employed only as an external appli-
cation for the cure and relief of disease, except in the case of our
Invention of "Improvements in the Manufacture of Pills for Medicinal

page_text: Purposes," for which Letters Patent were granted to us bearing date
the 22nd day of December 1874, No. 4406, according to which In-
vention it is administered in the form of pills; many persons however
have an aversion for any medicine in this form. Our present Invention
therefore has for its object a more agreeable and pleasant form for the
administration of magnetism as an internal remedy, and for this purpose
we apply magnetism to biscuits, breads, sweetmeats, jellies, fats, farinas,
starches, gums, sugars, gelatines, glues, flour of all kinds, and pastes in
the following manner:-We take precipitated magnetic oxide of iron or
any other magnetic or magnetizable matter mixed in due proportion
with and formulated in the usual way into the before-named articles,
and afterwards magnetize by passing them through a helix of copper
wire which is being traversed by an electric current, or by any of the
other known methods of magnetization.
We prefer to use the precipitated magnetic oxide of iron, which we
prepare by making a saturated solution of the pure sulphate of iron in
boiling water acidulated with pure sulphuric acid. To two quarts of the
boiling solution is added a half pint of nitric acid of 1.36 specific
gravity, and the solution boiled, when the whole of the "ferrous"
solution will be converted into a "ferrio" solution. To this is added
one quart of the plain "ferrous " solution, and the whole again heated
to the boiling point. Three pounds of the crystalized carbonate of soda
are then added, and the mixture is boiled until the whole of the iron is
precipitated as the magnetic oxide. It is then allowed to settle, the
clear liquor is decanted off, and the precipitate is thoroughly washed 2
and dried by filteration in the ordinary way, or by means of centrifugal
filters, or by pressing in filter bags or other like appliances.
The magnetic oxide in this finely divided and pure state may be ad-
ministered in powders, but we prefer to mix it with foods, condiments,
and sweetmeats, making magnetic lozenges, jujubes, cough drops, jellies, 8
and the like, also magnetic bread, biscuits, gingerbread, or other suitable
articles of food. When however it is desired to make it into magnetic
bread and biscuits we prefer to precipitate the magnetic oxide from the
mother liquor, as before described, by the carbonate of ammonia instead :
of the carbonate of soda, so that the small quantity of the carbonate of 3
ammonia held in suspension by the precipitate may be made use of in
adding lightness and parocity to the doughs.

page_text: Magnetic lozenges we prefer to make in the proportions of one of
magnetic oxide, two of gum, two of sugar, and two of water, beaten
together into a proper mass for lozenges, which are afterwards magnetized
in the manner before described.
Magnetic breads, or articles made of flour and the like, we prefer to
make in the proportion of about one of the magnetic oxide to eleven of
the other ingredients, which are afterwards magnetized in the manner
before described.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Darlow and Henry Fairfax in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 8th December 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, wc, WILLIAM
DARLOW and HENRY FAIRFAX, of No. 443, Strand, in the County of
Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto us, the said William Darlow and Henry
Fairfax, Her special licence that we, the said William Darlow and
Henry Fairfax, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as we, the said William Darlow and Henry Fairfax, our
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 for "A NEW OR
IMPROVED METHOD OF APPLYING MAGNETISM IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTICLES
OF FOOD FOR MEDICINAL AND OTHER PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said William Darlow and Henry Fairfax, our.
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or
their, or one of their hands and scals, 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

page_text: Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said William Darlow and Henry
Fairfax, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement in writing, that is
to say :-
Magnetism has hitherto been employed only as an external appli-
cation for the cure and relief of disease, except in the case of our
Invention of "Improvements in the Manufacture of Pills for Medicinal
Purposes," for which Letters Patent were granted to us bearing date
the 22nd day of December 1874, No. 4406, according to which In-
vention it is administered in the form of pills; many persons however
have an aversion for any medicine in this form. Our present Invention
therefore has for its object a more agreeable and pleasant form for the
administration of magnetism as an internal remedy, and for this purpose
we apply magnetism to biscuits, breads, sweetmeats, jellies, fats, farinas,.
starches, gums, sugars, gelatines, glues, flour of all kinds, and pastes, in
the following manner :-We take precipitated magnetic oxide of iron,
or any other magnetic or magnetizable matter, mixed in due proportion
with and formulated in the usual way into the before-named articles,
and afterwards magnetize the same by passing them through a helix of
copper wire which is being traversed by an electric current, or by any
of the other known methods of magnetization.
"
We prefer to use the precipitated magnetic oxide of iron, which we
prepare by making a saturated solution of the pure sulphate of iron in
boiling water, acidulated with pure sulphuric acid. To two quarts of the
boiling solution is added a half pint of nitric acid of 1.36 specific
gravity, and the solution is boiled, and the whole of the "ferrous
solution will be converted into a "ferric" solution. To this is added
one quart of the plain "ferrous" solution, and the whole again heated
to the boiling point. Three pounds of the crystallized carbonate of soda
are then added, and the mixture is boiled until the whole of the iron is
precipitated as the magnetic oxide. It is then allowed to settle, the
clear liquor is decanted off, and the precipitate is thoroughly washed
and dried by filteration in the ordinary way, or by means of centrifugal
filters, or by pressing in filter bags or other like appliances.

page_text: The magnetic oxide in this finely and divided pure state may be ad-
ministered in powders, but we prefer to mix it with foods, condiments,
trochas, glycicals, and sweetmeats of all kinds, making magnetic
lozenges, jujubes, cough drops, jellies, and the like, also magnetic bread,
biscuits, gingerbread, or other suitable articles of food. When however
it is desired to make it into magnetic bread and biscuits we prefer to
precipitate the magnetic oxide from the mother liquor, as before
described, by the carbonate of ammonia instead of the carbonate of
soda, so that the small quantity of the carbonate of ammonia held in
suspension by the precipitate may be made use of in adding lightness
and parocity to the doughs.
The magnetic lozenges we prefer to make in the proportions of one
part of magnetic oxide, two of gum, two of sugar, and two of water,
beaten together into a proper mass for lozenges, which are afterwards
magnetized in the manner before described.
Magnetic breads or articles made of flour and the like we prefer to
make in the proportions of about one part of the magnetic oxide to
eleven parts of the other ingredients, which are afterwards magnetized
in the manner before described.
Having now described the nature and object of our said Invention,
together with the manner in which the same is to be or may be per-
formed or carried into practical effect, we would remark in conclusion
that what we claim as our Invention is, the novel and peculiar appli-
cation and use of magnetism in manufacturing articles of food and
condiments, trochas, glycicals, lozenges, as well as all kinds of sweet-
meats and jellies, substantially in the manner as herein-before described,
and to be used for medicinal, curative, and other analogous purposes.
In witness whereof, we, the said William Darlow and Henry
Fairfax, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Eighth day
of December, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and seventy-five.
WILLIAM DARLOW. (L.S.)
HENRY FAIRFAX.
(L.S.)