AN IMPROVEMENT IN ALIMENTARY PREPARATIONS
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexander Melville Clark, of 53, Chancery Lane,
in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of
"AN IMPROVEMENT IN ALIMENTARY PREPARATIONS."-A communication
from abroad by Jean Marie Onésime. Tamin, of 13, Boulevart St.
Martin, Paris, Doctor of Medicine.
Sealed the 15th March 1872, and dated the 4th October 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Melville
Clark at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 4th October 1871.
I, ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK, of 53, Ohancery Lane, in the County
of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN ALIMENTARY PREPARATIONS," to be as
follows:
This Invention relates to improved alimentary hygienic preparations,
valuable more particularly to those engaged in mental pursuits, and for
medical and pharmaceutical purposes.

page_text: The Invention consists in the employment of a substance of an albumi-
nous nature containing phosphorus either alone or mixed with sulphur
or iodine. This substance is found in 1st, all kinds of pulse, such as
haricots, peas, beans, lentils, lupines, and coffee berries; 2ndly, birds'
eggs; 3rdly, fish eggs, such as those of the salmon, skate, herring, or 5
cod; 4thly, eggs of reptiles, such as those of the tortoise, testudo
mauritanica, cistudo Europaca, and others; 5thly, brains of animals,
such as of the ox, sheep, or calf; Gthly, zoophytes, such as the various
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page_text: to contain phosphorus, sometimes in combination with phosphurets of
sulphur or of iodine.
I also reserve the right of associating the phosphorine with an organic
phosphuret, for example, the phosphuret of acetyl or of chloracetyl, in
order to quicken its action. Said phosphuret or phosphurets instead of
being mixed with the phosphorine may also be made into pills, syrups,
lozenges, or other form usual in pharmaceutical preparations, and taken
separately with the same object.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Alexander Melville Clark in tho Great Seal Patent
Office on the 1st April 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I; ALEXANDER
MELVILLE CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex,
Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give-
and grant unto me, the said Alexander Melville Clark, Her special
licence that I, tho said Alexander Melville Clark, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Alexander Melville
Clark, 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
IMPROVEMENT IN ALIMENTARY PREPARATIONS,” a communication to me from
abroad by Jean Marie Onésime Tamin, of 13, Boulevart St. Martin, Paris,
Doctor of Medicine, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Alexander Melville Clark, my executors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands
and seals, 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 Scal Patent Office

page_text: within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of
the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Alexander Melville Clark, 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 relates to improved alimentary hygienic preparations
valuable more particularly to those engaged in mental pursuits, and for
medical and pharmaceutical purposes.
The Invention consists in the employment in the said preparations of a
substance of an albuminous nature containing phosphorous, either alone
or mixed with sulphur or iodine. This substance is found in, first, all
kinds of pulse, such as haricots, peas, beans, lentils, lupines, and coffee
berries; secondly, birds' eggs; thirdly, fish eggs, such as those of the
salmon, skate, herring, or cod; fourthly, eggs of reptiles, such as those
of the tortoise, testudo mauritanica, cistuda Europaca, and others;
fifthly, brains of animals, such as of the ox, sheep, or calf; sixthly,
zoophytes, such as the various kinds of sponges.
Of the above substances birds' eggs contain a small proportion, and the
leguminous substances and eggs of reptiles a considerable proportion of
a substance of an albuminous nature containing as its essential feature
phosphorus in various proportions, and sometimes mixed with sulphur.
The organic molecular combination of this substance resembles the
phosphuretted elements found in the nervous tissue and the human brain,
and thus affords in a readily assimilable and convenient form a means of
imparting nutriment to the cerebral and nervous systems; and it is
proposed to extract this substance in any suitable manner and to apply
it as a cerebral and nervous aliment either alone or mixed with various
articles of food.
I term the preparation according to the source from which it i
derived,―
1st. Legumine.
4thly. Emydine.
2ndly. Vitellinc.
5thly. Cerebrine.
3rdly. Ichtiline and Ichtidine.
6thly. Epongine.

page_text: I give this substance, whatever its base, the general name of phos-
phorine, phosphoreine, or sulphurine, although I may retain the more
precise appelations above indicated, or those of the substances or of the
plants and animals from which it is derived. I not only reservo the
application of phosphorine or sulphurine as an 'alimentary preparation,
but also of mixing it in variable proportions with chocolate, bread,
biscuits, dough, lozenges, jellies, extracts of meat and vegetables,
tapioca, pastry, and generally in all alimentary and pharmaceutical
preparations. The phosphorine or sulphurine is extracted, purified, and
preserved by known means from one or more of the substances before
designated, whose essential characteristic is to contain phosphorus,
sometimes in combination with sulphur or iodine.
Each alimentary preparation may be distinguished either by adding
1st, the name phosphorine, phosphoreine, or sulphurine, as for example
phosphorine chocolate; 2ndly, -by giving it the special name of each.
substance, such as legumine, emydine, or other appelation, according to
its derivation; 3rdly, by adding the name of the animal or vegetable
substance from which the extract is obtained, such as tortoise egg
biscuits, salmon egg biscuits, or animal brain biscuits.
I also reserve the right of associating the phosphorine with an organic
or mineral phosphuret; for example, the phosphuret of acetyl or of
chloracetyl, in order to quicken its action. Said phosphuret or phos-
phurets instead of being mixed with the phosphorine, may also be made
into pills, syrups, lozenges, or other form usual in pharmaceutical
preparations, and taken separately with the same object.
The substance above designated, separated more or less from the
animal or vegetable matters before mentioned, may also be made up in.
various forms of alimentary and pharmaceutical preparations for the
cure of maladies of the nervous system as a cerebral aliment.
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Having described the nature of the Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I declare that what I claim as the Invention, to be
protected by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the
application of a matter extracted from the different natural products
containing phosphorus (sometimes mixed with sulphur and iodine),
herein-before designated as an alimentary preparation, and more

page_text: especially in medicine and pharmacy, as a cerebral and nervous aliment,
cither alone or mixed with various articles of food, all as herein-before
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Melville Clark, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this First day of April, in the 6
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
Witness,
Wч. CLARK,
53, Chancery Lane.
A. M. CLARK. (L.B.).