A NEW AND IMPROVED UTILIZATION OF LINSEED AND OTHER INGREDIENTS FOR THE MANU- FACTURE OF CERTAIN MEDICAL COMPOUNDS
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Kay and Thomas Kay, of Stockport, in
the County of Chester, Chemists, for the Invention of "A NEW AND
IMPROVED UTILIZATION OF LINSEED AND OTHER INGREDIENTS FOR THE MANU-
FACTURE OF CERTAIN MEDICAL COMPOUNDS."
Sealed the 31st October 1873, and dated the 31st May 1873.
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Kay and
Thomas Kay at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 31st May 1873.
We, SAMUEL KAY and THOMAS KAY, of Stockport, in the County of
Chester, Chemists, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "A NEW AND IMPROVED UTILIZATION OF LINSEED AND OTHER INGREDIENTS FOR
THE MANUFACTURE OF CERTAIN MEDICAL COMPOUNDS," to be as follows:-
We take a strong decoction of the best cleaned linseed and after
prolonged boiling strain the same. The strained product is then
evaporated and reduced to the plastic consistence of a solid extract.
This extract we mix with pounded sugar by powerful trituration, and
after rolling, moulding, or shaping the mass we dry it in a heated
room by hot air or in any other convenient manner or form.

page_text: We farther use the same ingredients (viz., concentrated linseed
extract and sugar), and add thereto before rolling, moulding, or shaping
the mass a proportion of any medicament, such as chlorodyne, strong
chloric ether or chloral hydrate, but we prefer a chlorodyne made with
morphia meconate compound with an expectorant as ipecacuanha or
antimony in approved doses.
We farther make an improved medicinal compound which contains
concentrated within it the fluid extract of senega, scilla, papavera,
marrubium, chivetta, or other tonic, ipecacuanha, or antimony in wine,
or both in the approved officinal proportions, and we emulsify the clear
liquor with linseed by decoction in close steam jacketed pans. The strained
product is then farther medicated with a distillate of star anniseeds,
cherry, laurel, tolu balsam, gum benjamin, sulphuric, or chloric ether,
and with sufficient mucilage aided by powerful agitators to produce a
complete and homogeneous mixture which contains the demulcent
properties of linseed combined with the cordial, balsamic, soothing,
strengthening, and expectorating properties of the above medicines in a
portable and convenient form.
We farther make an aperient pill by taking of the dried herb lenerin
catharticum (purging linseed) or mountain flax as it is commonly called,
and after boiling the same we inspissate the liquid until an extract is
obtained of a plastic consistence. We mix this with other vegetable
remedies, rhubarb, aloes, myrrh, cardamoms, mandrake, hyosciamms,
and gentian extract, and we use Castile soap wherewith to make a mass
and keep soluble and active the various ingredients.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Samuel Kay and Thomas Kay in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 28th November 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, SAMUEL
KAY and THOMAS KAY, of Stockport, in the County of Chester, Chemist, 3
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the

page_text: thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herseш, Hеr neirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Samuel Kay and Thomas Kay, Her
special licence that we, the said Samuel Kay and Thomas Kay, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
Samuel Kay and Thomas Kay, our 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 "A NEW AND IMPROVED UTILIZATION
OF LINSEED AND OTHER INGREDIENTS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CERTAIN MEDICINAL
COMPOUNDS," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said
Samuel Kay and Thomas Kay our executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under our, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Samuel Kay and Thomas Kay,
do hereby declare the nature of our 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 :—
We take a strong decoction of the best cleaned linseed and after
prolonged boiling strain the same. The strained product is then
evaporated and reduced to the plastic consistence of a solid extract.
This extract we mix with pounded sugar by powerful trituration, and
after rolling, moulding, or shaping the mass we dry it in a heated room
by hot air or in any other convenient manner, and when manufactured
into lozenge or other forms we call it "linseed lozenge."
We further use the same ingredients (viz), concentrated linseed
extract and sugar, and add thereto before finally rolling, moulding, or
shaping the mass a proportion of any medicament, such as chlorodyne,
strong chloric ether, or chloral hydrate, but we prefer a chlorodyne
composed of morphia (using by preference the meconate solution),
chloroformum dissolved in spiritus vini, æther sulphuricus, acidum
hydrocyanicum, in proper proportions of officinal doses combined with
theriacum and syrupus glycyrrhize flavoured with oleum menthæ

page_text: piperitæ, or other essential oil or aromatic tincture. We combine the
compound with an expectorant as ipecacuanha or antimonii tartras in
approved doses. We call this when manufactured and dried "chloro-
linseed lozenge."
We further make an improved medicinal compound which contains
concentrated within it the fluid extract of senega, scilla, papaver,
marrubium, chiretta, or other tonic bitter, and we add ipecacuanha or
antimonii tartras, or both, in wine in the approved officinal proportions;
we emulsify the clear liquor with linseed "linum usitatissimum" by
decoction in steam jacketted pans or otherwise. The strained product is
then farther medicated with a distillate of pimpinella anisum,
laurocerasus, tolinfera balsamum, storax benzoin, æther sulphuricus et
chloricus, with sufficient mucilage aided by powerful agitators to produce
a complete and homogeneous mixture, which contains the demulcent
properties of linseed combined with the cordial, balsamic, soothing,
strengthening, and expectorating properties of the above medicines in a
portable and convenient form. We call this." Compound Essence of
Linseed."
We further make an improved aperient pill by taking of the dried
herb linum catharticum (purging linseed) or mountain flax as it is
commonly called, and after boiling the same we inspissate the liquid
until an extract is obtained of a plastic consistence. We mix this with
other vegetable remedies rheum, aloes, myrrha, cardamomum minus,
podophyllum peltatum, hyociamus, and gentiana in the form of extract,
and we use the sapo Castiliensis wherewith to make a mass and to keep
soluble and active the various ingredients. We call this the "linum
catharticum or purging linseed pill.
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In witness whereof, we, the said Samuel Kay and Thomas Kay,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-fifth day of
November, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and seventy-three.