An Improved Composition for Dietetic Purposes.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Aug., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 11th May, 1891-Accepted, 27th June, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Composition for Dietetic Purposes.
I HENRY CUMBER of 4 Fountain Street Guernsey Chemist & Druggist do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The addition of a small quantity of one or more of the acids of phosphorus or its
salts to sugar to be used as an article of diet by persons whose constitutions would
be benefited by taking phosphorns.
1000
HENRY CUMBER.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Composition for Dietetic Purposes.
1 HENRY CUMBER, of 4 Fountain Street, Guernsey, Chemist do hereby declare
the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to
be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to an improved manner of taking phosphorus in food as
food and consists in adding to sugar a small percentage of any of the salts or acids
of phosphorus, such as phosphate of soda, phosphate of potash; phosphites, hypo-
phosphites, or thiophosphates, pyrophosphates, metaphosphates of soda, potash,
ammonia lime magnesia or iron; phosphates of ammonia, lime magnesia or iron.
The preparation of phosphorus I have found the most suitable, is either phosphate
of soda or phosphate of potash. The manner 1 employ to add the above preparation
of phosphorus is to dissolve the salts of phosphorus in water and add the solution
to the sugar either during its manufacture or afterwards, and then treat the sugar
in any known way to dry off the water. The proportions I prefer is two and a
half cent. of phosphates to ninety seven and a half per cent. of sugar by weight.
Sugar treated in the above manner is used in the usual way with other food, the
small proportion of phosphates not being detected by the palate.
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Many articles of food contain various proportions of phosphates but either in a
form not easily assimilated or not conveniently used continuously as a regular diet.
Especially has this been found the case with children who have great need of
phosphates to supply materials for the formation of bone muscle and teeth. To
meet this need various medicinal preparations of phosphates have been put before
the public but such preparations are not fit to be taken continuously or as food, and
present many inconveniences in application, whereas sugar is an article which is
always found in every household and more or less taken at every meal, hence a
phosphated sugar meets every possible requirement. Many of the medicinal
preparations of phosphate are introduced with salt, but salt being an inorganic
compound passes through the system for the most part unchanged and would thus
carry the phosphates with it, such preparation might be useful stimulants to the
liver but cannot be considered as a food. Phosphated sugar meets all the require-
ments and overcomes all the objections that can be made against other preparations
containing phosphates, sugar is an organic compound of vegetable origin, which is
digested as rapidly in the stomach as are ordinary foods and the salts of phosphorus
being readily broken up into their clements must of necessity when the sugar is
also dissolved and separated, be presented to the digestive organs in a form
eminently favourable for assimilation.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
An improved composition for dietetic purposes consisting of adding to sugar a
small proportion of salts or acids of phosphorus as and in about the proportions
hereinbefore described.
FREDERIC PRINCE,
1, Quality Court, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agent for Applicant.