AN IMPROVED MEDICAL COMPOUND
Year: 1852

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PAUL
JOSEPH POGGIOLI, of Paris, in the Empire of France, Gentleman, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-sixth day of
August, in the fifteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Paul Joseph Poggioli, my exors,
aditiors, and assigns, Her especial license, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said Paul Joseph Poggioli, my exors, admors, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Paul Joseph Poggioli, my exors,
adñiors, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times during the term of years therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and in the Islands of Guernsey,
Jersey, Alderney, Sark, and Man, and also in all Her said Majesty's Colonies
and Plantations abroad, my Invention of "AN IMPROVED MEDICAL COMPOUND;"
in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso that I, the said Paul
Joseph Poggioli shall cause a particular description of the nature of my
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an

page_text: instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to be enrolled in Her said
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next an
immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in an
by the same, reference being thereunto had,. will more fully and at larg
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the sai
Paul Joseph Poggioli, do hereby declare that the nature of my Invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularl
described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, that i
to say:
My Invention consists in a new kind of ointment, the composition of which
the formula is hereafter given, is intended for the purpose of curing neuralgia
head-ache, rheumatism, even gout and sciatica, disorders of the same class
and in general all throbbing pains: This ointment is to be externally applied
upon the disordered parts, and in most instances two or three frictions are
sufficient to obtain a cure. It may be preserved without alteration for years
and has the advantage of not producing any irruption or irritation even upor
the most delicate skin. This ointment may be made white or colored
at will.
Formula for making the ointment :-
1st. Salt of morphine (hydrochlorate) ten grains (or fifty centigrammes
French weight).
2nd. Extract of belladona (four grains) (or twenty centigrammes),
or atropine for a white color.
3rd. Populeum ointment, three hundred grains, or fifteen grammes.
4th. Axunge, being macerated twenty-four hours in leaves datura
stramonium in sufficient quantity, that is to say, about
three hundred grains (fifteen grammes). The whole scented
with some drops of mint water, or with cherry water.
Application of the ointment.-The quantity to be used for each friction is
about five grains, except for sciatica; in this case it ought to be about double
that quantity. It is applied gently with the soft extremities of the fingers
and should remain at least twenty minutes on the affected part. Between
the frictions there should be an interval of three or four hours. An emollient
poultice or diaculum to be applied on the affected part after the friction
The frictions must be discontinued when the pain has subsided; this generally
takes place after the first, second, or third frictions.
Without limiting myself to the exact proportions above indicated, I
claim the combination of matters herein indicated, forming my
Im-

page_text: proved Medical Compound," applicable to the cure of the complaints above
mentioned..
In witness whereof, I, the said Paul Joseph Poggioli, have hercunto set
my hand and seal this Seventeenth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
PAUL JOSEPH (L.S.) POGGIOLI, D. P.
Taken and acknowledged by Paul
Joseph Poggioli (party hereto) at
Paris, in the Empire of France, this
Seventeenth day of February 1853
This is the Specification marked A referred to in the affidavit of Auguste
Edouard Loradoux Bellford, sworn before me this 26 day of February, 1853.
D. DREW.
Auguste Edouard Loradoux Bellford, of 16, Castle Street, Holborn, in the
County of Middlesex, maketh oath and saith, that he is acquainted with the
manner and character of the handwriting of Thomas Pickford, Her Britannic
Majesty's Consul at Paris, in the Empire of France. And this deponent
further saith that the signature "Thomas Pickford," set, subscribed, or
written in the margin of the Specification hereunto annexed, marked A, and
dated the Seventeenth day of February instant, and purporting to be executed
by Paul Joseph Poggioli, of Paris, whereby it is stated that the Specification
was acknowledged by him, the said Paul Joseph Poggioli, before the said
Thomas Pickford, on the Seventeenth day of February, at Paris aforesaid, is of
the proper handwriting of the said Thomas Pickford.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the oath of Auguste Edouard
Loradoux Bellford, the Specification aforesaid was enrolled word for word as
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the oath of Auguste Edouard
Loradoux Bellford, the Specification aforesaid was enrolled word for word as
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Twenty-sixth day of February, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
Enrolled the Twenty-sixth day of February, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.