A NEW OR IMPROVED MEDICINAL COMPOUND
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexander Melville Clark, of 53, Chancery Lane,
in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of
"A NEW OR IMPROVED MEDICINAL COMPOUND."-A communication from
abroad by Claude Victor Viard, of Paris, France.
Sealed the 4th February 1873, and dated the 12th August 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Melville
Clark at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 12th August 1872.
I, ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "A.NEW OR IMPROVED MEDICINAL COMPOUND," to be as
follows:-
.
This Invention relates to the preparation of a medicinal compound
consisting of condensed milk and Vichy salts. I first take pure milk
from the cow and deprive it of or extract its aqueous portion, and then
add pounded sugar together with a sufficient quantity-of-Vichy salts to
render the aliment useful for the treatment of those maladies in which
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page_text: said salts are employed. I may also dispense with the sugar and
simply add Vichy salts in order to render the aliment thus obtained
more efficacious in the treatment of diabetes. The ingredients of the
compound are to be well mixed, and then put immediately into tins and
soldered up. The product (which combines the medicinal properties of
both milk and Vichy salts) will keep in this form for an indefinite period
in any climate, and will be found to be of great service both as a hygienic
and medical preparation.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Alexander Melville Clark in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 11th February 1873.
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 Twelfth day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-sixth
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, the said Alexander Melville Clark, my executors, administrators,
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 "A NEW OR
IMPROVED MEDICINAL COMPOUND," a communication to me from abroad by
Claude Victor Viard, of Paris, France, upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Alexander Melville Clark, my exccutors or ad-
ministrators, 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 within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.

page_text: 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 the preparation of a new medicinal compound
consisting of condensed milk and Vichy salts. I first take pure milk
from the cow and deprive it of, or extract its aqueous portion, and then
add pounded sugar together with a sufficient quantity of Vichy salts to
render the aliment useful for the treatment of those maladies in which
said salts are employed.. I may also dispense with the sugar and simply
add Vichy salts in order to render the aliment thus obtained more
efficacious in the treatment of diabetes. The ingredients of the.
compound are to be well mixed, and then put immediately into tins and
soldered up. The product, which combines the medicinal properties of
both milk and Vichy salts, will keep in this form for an indefinite period
in any climate, and will be found to be of great service both as a
hygienic and medicinal preparation.
Having described the nature of the Invention, and in what manner.
the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim as the Inven-
tion to be protected by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent
is, the new medicinal compound consisting of condensed milk and
Vichy salts with or without the addition of sugar, as and for the
purposes herein specificd.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Melville Clark, have
hereunto set my hand and scal, this Eleventh day of February, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.
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