A NEW AND IMPROVED MEDICINAL PREPARATION OF COD LIVER OIL, CALLED COD LIVER OIL JELLY
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Agnew, of Liverpool, in the County of
Lancaster, Chemist, for the Invention of “A NEW AND IMPROVED
MEDICINAL PREPARATION OF COD LIVER OIL, CALLED COD LIVER OIL JELLY."
Sealed the 25th October 1870, and dated the 17th May 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Agnew at the
I Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
17th May 1870.
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I, JAMES AGNEW, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Chemist,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW AND
IMPROVED MEDICINAL PREPARATION OF COD LIVER OIL, CALLED COD LIVER OIL
JELLY," to be as follows:-
The object of my Invention is to provide a palatable medicinal
preparation of cod liver oil suited for the most delicate persons. For
this purpose I form a jelly by adding to about 96 parts of cod liver oil.
from three to four parts of gelatine, isinglass, Iceland moss; or equiva-.
lent substance dissolved in water and then stirring the mixture until it
assumes a jelly-like consistency. Citric acid, oil of lemon, or other acid
or substance mixible with cod liver oil may be added in small quantities

page_text: to prevent nausea and improve the flavor; or quinine, phosphates, tincture
of iron or other medicinal substances or preparation mixible with cod
liver oil may be added to serve as a tonic.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said James Agnew in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 17th November 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
AGNEW, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Chemist, send
greeting.
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-third
year of Her reign did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the, said James Agnew, Her special licence that
I, the said James Agnew, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said James Agnew, my executors, adminis-
trators, 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 “A NEW AND IMPROVED MEDICINAL
PREPARATION OF COD LIVER OIL, CALLED COD LIVER OIL JELLY,"
upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said James Agnew, 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 Seal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.
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NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Agnew, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly. described and ascertained
in and by the following statement thereof (that is to say):
The object of my Invention is to provide a palatable medicinal:
preparation of cod liver oil suited for the most delicate persons. For.

page_text: this purpose I form a jelly by adding to about 96 parts of cod liver oil,
from three to four parts of gelatine, isinglass, Iceland moss, or equiva-
lent substance, dissolved in water, and then stirring the mixture until
it assumes a jelly-like consistency. Citric acid, oil of lemon, or other
acid or substance mixible with cod liver oil may be added in small
quantities to prevent nausea and improve the flavor; or quinine,
phosphates, tincture of iron, or other medicinal substances or preparations
mixible with cod liver oil may be added to serve as a tonic.
Having now described 'the nature of my said Invention, I claim, the
new and improved medicinal preparation of cod liver oil, called cod
liver oil jelly, as herein described.
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