An Improved Process for the Manufacture of Candles for Fumigating or Deodorizing.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Dec., 1886
Complete Left, 20th Sept., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 21st Oct., 1887.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Process for the Manufacture of Candles for Fumigating
or Deodorizing.
I, FLORA HELENE WEBER, of Dresden, Saxony, in the Empire of Germany,
Infant School Teacher, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as
follows:-
My invention has for its object a new or improved process for the preparation of a
mixture in suitable proportions of sulphur, saltpetre, incense, and myrrh in the form
of a warm liquid mass, and for the conversion thereof into candles, such candles being
used as healing means for all diseases resulting from blood poisoning and such like
causes.
Sulphur, saltpetre, incense and myrrh are mixed in suitable proportions heated to
a liquid consistence and subsequently converted by the ordinary methods used in the
manufacture of tallow candles into fumigating candles or deodorizers.
Sulphur acts as a nerve strengthening and a blood purifying remedy, saltpetre
generates moisture which is indispensable in sick rooms, particularly in the case of
asthmatic patients, while incense has a most beneficial action upon the nervous system
of invalids. Myrrh is added to the above mentioned substances in order to attenuate
the sulphurous-odour of the compound formed therewith and to exhale or dissiminate
an agreeable perfume. The action of the vapors or gases given off from candles
formed with such a compound or mixture on the human body is highly beneficial
and they have been found eminently successful in operating as healing means in
diseases caused by every description of poisoning as well as in venereal diseases, in the
case of wounds resulting from surgical operations, and in all cases of gangrenous
inflammation and of pyaemia. With reference to the latter diseases the action of the
above described compound is of special value, since when used as a remedy for
diptheria in the particular manner directed by me and in accordance with the

page_text: knowledge hitherto gained from experiments undertaken in such respect, it has pro-
duced the most favorable and successful results, provided that the disease had not
already reached a stage at which remedies appear to have become absolutely inert.
When the above described healing means are used for Cholera, the relief obtained
is rapid, as the inhalation of the vapors or gases proceeding from the candle allays
the first symptoms of the disease, such as giddiness, shivers, nausea, vomiting and
head ache and by causing the natural heat of the body to reappear and promoting the
direct action of the respiratory organs it renders the nervous system capable of
producing a reaction.
1000

page_text: and one table spoonful of styrax.
The mixture is allowed to simmer until it has become a thoroughly liquid mass, when
0.25 kilo. of powdered myrrh, and one fifteenth part of a litre of pure oil of
turpentine are added and intimately mixed, so as to form one liquid mass." After the
whole mixture has been heated (but not boiled) it is poured into candle moulds, in
the usual manner, and then allowed to cool.
The foregoing are the relative weights and measures of the ingredients, which
furnish a guide for larger quantities.
In burning these candles, the sulphur acts as a nervine tonic and a blood purifier.
Saltpetre creates moisture, which should never be absent from the air in sick rooms,
particularly where people are suffering from asthma. Frankincense has a no less
beneficial influence upon the nervous system of sick persons, and myrrh is added in
order to attenuate the odour from the sulphur, and prevent an unpleasant smell.
Tar acts as a purifier of the air simultaneously with the oil of turpentine, the latter
also assisting the combustion. Styrax is chiefly used as a means of binding the mass
together.
Also
By the burning of these candles, the air is beneficially affected, so as to form a superior
means of healing in contagious diseases of every description; in syphilitic diseases ;
in wounds from cuts and inflammatory or other blood poisoning. Also in diphtheria,
provided my remedy is resorted to at a sufficiently early stage of the disease.
in cases of cholera, the inhalation of the vapours, emanating from the burning of the
candles, cures the disease during the occurrence of the early symptoms, such as
giddiness, nausea, and palpitation of the heart.

page_text: My invention also acts powerfully upon the nervous system, by gradually returning
heat to the body, and by promoting the action of the respiratory organs.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
:-
The manufacture and use of candles composed of sulphur, frankincense, wood tar,
saltpetre, styrax, myrrh, and oil of turpentine, in the proportions aforesaid or there-
abouts, substantially as and for the purposes herein before described.