AN IMPROVED PREPARATION FOR THE CURE OF SCAB, FOOT ROT, AND OTHER DISEASES OF SHEEP AND CATTLE
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Newton, of the Office for Patents,
66, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, for the
Invention of "AN IMPROVED PREPARATION FOR THE CURE OF SCAB, FOOT ROT,
AND OTHER DISEASES OF SHEEP AND CATTLE."-A communication from
abroad by Patrick Hayes, of Melbourne, in the Colony of Victoria,
Chemical Manufacturer.
Sealed the 19th May 1863, and dated the 17th March 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Edward Newton
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
17th March 1863.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery Lane,
in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED PREPARATION FOR THE CURE OF SCAB, FOOT
ROT, AND OTHER DISEASES OF SHEEP AND CATTLE," to be as follows:-
This Invention of "An Improved Preparation for the Cure of Scab, Foot
Rot, and other Diseases of Sheep and Cattle," relates to a compound of
ingredients which will form a black soap which is soluble in water, and which
when dissolved and properly diluted will be found an excellent specific for
the cure of scab, foot rot, and other cutaneous affections to which sheep and
cattle are liable. To this end I take tar, pitch, resin, tallow, or spirits, oil, or
fat of tar, coal, or peat, or the oil or gum of the Australian grass tree, or

page_text: obtained from the blue, red, and white gum trees of Australia. Any one or
more of these are made soluble in or mixed with water, and subsequently
added to a saponaceous mass made by mixing strong caustic lees under pres-
sure with waste animal matter. These matters should be treated with steam
in strong close vessels, and when the process is complete a soft black soap
will be produced. This may be dissolved in hot water, and further diluted by
the addition of cold water until the proper strength is attained. The sheep
or cattle may then be bathed therein for about a minute or half a minute at
intervals of about a week. This will be found to act very beneficially on the
sores, and will also greatly improve the quality of the wool of the sheep.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Edward Newton in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 7th September 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
EDWARD NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery Lane, in the County
of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said William Edward Newton, Her special license that I, the said William
Edward Newton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said William Edward Newton, my 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
"AN IMPROVED PREPARATION FOR THE CURE OF SCAB, FOOT ROT, AND OTHER DISEASES
OF SHEEP AND CATTLE," a communication from Patrick Hayes, of Melbourne, in
the Colony of Victoria, Chemical Manufacturer, upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said William Edward Newton, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, 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 Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Edward Newton, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (that is to say) :-
This Invention of "An Improved Preparation for the Cure of Scab, Foot
Rot, and other Diseases of Sheep and Cattle," relates to a compound of ingre-
dients which will form a black soap soluble in water, and which when dissolved.
and properly diluted will be found an excellent specific for the cure of scab,
foot rot, and other cutaneous affections to which sheep and cattle are liable...
To this end I take tar, pitch, resin, tallow, or spirits, oil or fat of tar, coal,
or peat, or the oil or gum of the Australian grass tree, or obtained from the
blue, red, and white gum trees of Australia. Any one or more of these are
made soluble in or mixed with water, and subsequently added to a saponaceous
mass made by mixing strong caustic lyes under pressure with waste animal
matters.
In carrying out the Invention I take any of the following ingredients which.
are readiest at hand, (viz.), oil of tar, fat of tar, spirits of tar, oil of coal, the
oil or gum of the Australian grass tree, the tar or oil obtained from the blue,
red, and white gum trees of Australia, Stockholm tar, pitch, resin, or tallow.
Any of these matters are dissolved in or mixed with water so as to be luted
to the extent which the circumstances of the case and the particular stage of
the disorder may require, i. e., when sheep or cattle are strongly affected with
disease a stronger solution is necessary, or vice versa. The waste meat or
waste carcasses from boiling-down establishments are then cut up into pieces,
and, together with the bones, these are placed in suitable air-tight vessels
capable of resisting considerable pressure, and heat by fire or superheated
steam is applied thereto. Two hundredweight, more or less, of caustic soda or
potash, soda ash, or soda made caustic, and very strongly prepared in the same
way as soapmaker's lees, is then added to every twenty hundredweight of this
meat, fat, bones, and animal matters, and the mass is then boiled for several
hours until the whole is dissolved and formed into a glycerine or soap. To
every three hundredweight of this composition one hundredweight of the solu-
tion before mentioned as made from any of the ingredients above enumerated
is added, and the whole of this mixture is then boiled until the whole is
thoroughly saponified and it assumes the appearance of a soft black soap.
One hundredweight of sulphur, a little more or less, is added to every ton of
this specific, and the mixture is then allowed to cool, the sulphur being well
mixed therewith during the process of cooling, and when it is sufficiently cool
it can be drawn off and casked as may be found convenient. One hundred

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pounds, more or less, of this specific dissolved in one hundred gallons of boiling
water, adding four hundred gallons of cold water, making in all five hundred
gallons, well stirred up will be sufficient for, say, two thousand sheep, which
should be thoroughly immersed and allowed to swim through, and remain
under its influence for about half a minute. My specific thus used will be
found not only to cure the scab and foot rot in sheep, cattle, and other
animals, but will stimulate and increase the growth of the wool in sheep, and
generally improve the health of the animal. The process should be repeated
in most instances after an interval of eight days.
Having now described this Invention of "An Improved Preparation for the
Cure of Scab, Foot Rot, and other Diseases of Sheep and Cattle," and having
explained the manner of carrying the same into effect as communicated
to me by my correspondent as aforesaid, I claim as the Invention secured
to me by Letters Patent as aforesaid the use or application of the soluble
saponaceous preparation herein set forth for the cure of certain diseases of
animals as herein set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Newton, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the Twenty-eighth day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
Witness,
J. W. MOFFATT,
66, Chancery Lane.
W. E. NEWTON. (L.S.)