Manufacturing the same.
Year: 1885

page_text: Manufacturing the same.
"
I ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn in the county of Middlesex,
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of the said invention for "AN IMPROVED
MEDICINAL PREPARATION AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME (૧
communication from V. Vankeerberghen of Bruxelles Belgium) to be as follows: -
This invention consists in the manufacture of capsules of gelatine or other
suitable material enclosing blood which is so manipulated as to keep for an
indefinite time and be applicable as a medecine.
The main feature of this invention is the enclosing of the blood of an Ox or the
like in capsules and protecting the same against deterioration so that it may be
taken at any time and will not be unpleasant or cause nausea or repugnance and
the user will have no need to go to a slaughterhouse.
The invention may be carried into effect as follows.
A transfusion trocar of suitable size is, by means of India rubber tubing with
hermetical joints say, placed into communication with a pneumatic bell in which
there is a vessel with a concave bottom having at the centre an exhaust-tube (with
a double valve if desired) the whole interior being powdered with sulphate of soda
so as to prevent coagulation "in vacuo."
As soon as the animal whose blood is to be enclosed in capsules has received the
death-blow, the trocar is introduced into its carotid artery and all the blood is
extracted and passes by suction into the pneumatic bell where the vacuum
vaporises it.
Azote or other gas which does not exert any action upon the blood is then
admitted to the bell and drives the blood between plates of gelatine or the like
united at their edges.
By the pressure of the gas the blood flows into the space between the two plates
and when a sufficient quantity has been introduced the plates pass into a suitable
apparatus where the plates are subdivided into a number of closed capsules the
contents whereof have not during the operation been exposed to air.

page_text: An improved medicinal Preparation and Method of
Manufacturing the same.
I ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn London Engineer do hereby
declare the nature of this invention (a communication from V. Vankeerberghen
Bruxelles in the Kingdom of Belgium) and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention consists in the manufacture of capsules of gelatine or other
suitable material enclosing blood which is so manipulated as to keep for an
indefinite time and be applicable as a medicine for the benefit of the human body.
The main feature of this invention is the enclosing of the blood of an ox or the
like in capsules and protecting the same against deterioration so that it may be
taken at any time and will not be unpleasant or cause nausea or repugnance and
the user will have no need to go to a slaughter house.
The invention may be carried into effect as follows:-
A Transfusion trocar of suitable size is by means of india rubber tubing with
hermetical joints say, placed into communication with a pneumatic bell in which
there is a vessel with a concave bottom having at the centre an exhaust tube (with
a double valve if desired) the whole interior being powdered with sulphate of soda
so as to prevent coagulation in vacuo.
As soon as the animal whose blood is to be enclosed in capsules has received the
death-blow, the trocar is introduced into its carotid artery and all the blood is
extracted and passes by suction, into the pneumatic bell where the vacuum
vaporises it.
Azote or other gas which does not exert any action upon the blood is then
admitted to the bell and drives the blood between the plates of gelatine or the like
united at their edges.
By the pressure of the gas the blood flows into the space between the two plates'
and when a sufficient quantity has been introduced the plates pass into a suitable
apparatus where the plates are subdivided into a number of closed capsules the
contents whereof have not during the operation been exposed to air.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondent I declare that what I claim is
1. As a new article of manufacture a capsule containing blood which has not
been exposed to the action of the air since it was taken from the animal.

page_text: 2. The process substantially as specified for the manufacture of blood capsules
and which consists essentially in drawing the blood direct from the animal by
suction into a vacuum bell containing sulphate of soda and by means of azote or
other equivalent gas which does not affect the blood driving it between plates of
gelatine or the like which are united at their edges and are subsequently divided
up into closed capsules.