AN IMPROVED MEDICINAL COMPOUND OR FERRUGINOUS PREPARATION, TO GIVE TONE AND VIGOR TO THE HUMAN SYSTEM, PARTICULARLY APPLICABLE IN CASES OF WEAK DIGESTION AND IN THE DISEASES CALLED 'CHLOROSIS
Year: 1839

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I WILLIAM
NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery Lane, in the County of
Middlesex, Civil Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twelfth day of June, in the second year of Her reign, and in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, did, for
Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said William
Newton, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I,
the said William Newton, ny executors, administrators, and assigns, and
such others as I, the said William Newton, my executors, administrators,
or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times during the term of years therein mentioned, should and law-
fully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in all Her Majesty's Colonies and
Plantations abroad, an Invention of "AN IMPROVED MEDICINAL COMPOUND OR
FERRUGINOUS PREPARATION, TO GIVE TONE AND VIGOR TO THE HUMAN SYSTEM,
PARTICULARLY APPLICABLE IN CASES OF WEAK DIGESTION AND IN THE DISEASES
CALLED 'CHLOROSIS," being a communication from a Foreigner residing abroad;
in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso obliging me, the said
William Newton, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in

page_text: what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be
enrolled in Her Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters
Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto have, will more fully
and at large appear.
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NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Newton, do hereby declare that the nature of the said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following description thereof (that is to say) :—
This improved medicinal compound is a mixture or combination of ferru-
ginous preparations with farinaceous matters intended to be taken into the
stomach by way of food in the form of bread, biscuits, or cakes. The
Invention is communicated to me by M. de Herrypon, of Paris, and is
directed to be carried into effect by the following means:-A given quantity of
ferruginous preparation (say of the soluble salts of iron) is to be dissolved in
a suitable quantity of water, and this water so impregnated with the iron is
to be employed as the menstruum or liquid for mixing up a given quantity
of flour into dough. The proportions of the iron to the flour must be accord-
ing to the complaint, disease, or physical state of the patient, and may be
regulated by the advice of the physician or other medical attendant. The
dough so prepared, having been properly kneaded, is to be baked into bread,
biscuits, cakes, or other suitable forms, and is then fit to be eaten by the
patient as an ordinary article of food as part of his or her daily aliment. By
such administration of the iron in small quantities the constitution of the
patient will be gradually restored to its natural tone of health and vigor, and
in a much more effective and agreeable manner than if taken in doses by the
ordinary means of solution or by other modes. This medicinal compound,
when made up in the form of biscuits, may be readily carried at sea or upon
journey as an article of food, and may be continually taken by persons
suffering under the complaints above alluded to; in hospitals and in the army
and navy, under circumstances of extensively prevailing disorders among the
men, such as scurvy, this mode of introducing iron and other suitable medi-
cines into bread or biscuits, subject to the direction of the medical adviser,
will be found to be extremely convenient and efficaceous, and the materials
may be so mixed that the patients shall not be aware of the bread which they
are eating being medicated. I have said above that the proportionate quantities
of the preparations to be mixed with the flour employed for making the bread
should be regulated by the advice of a medical man, as it is impossible to give
a

page_text: any definite directions, for in all cases the quantities must depend upon the state
or character of the disease to be combated, and of the particular preparations
of iron and other matters employed to arrest the disease or to restore the
constitution to health and vigor.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Newton, have hereunto set my
band and seal, this Twelfth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine.
WILLIAM (L.S.) NEWTON.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twelfth day of December, in
the third year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, the said William
Newton came before our said Lady the Queen in His Chancery, and
acknowledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein
contained and specified, in form above written. And also the Instrument.
aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statuto made in the
fifty-fifth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the Twelfth day of December, One thousand eight hundred
and thirty-nine.