IMPROVED COMBINATION OF INGREDIENTS OR COMPOUNDS FOR CURATIVE PURPOSES
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Elizabeth Spink, of the City of York, for the Invention of
" IMPROVED COMBINATION OF INGREDIENTS OR COMPOUNDS FOR CURATIVE
PURPOSES."
"
Sealed the 12th June 1877, and dated the 14th December 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Elizabeth Spink at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 14th December 1876.
ELIZABETH SPINK, of the City of York. "IMPROVED COMBINATION OF IN-
GREDIENTS OR COMPOUNDS FOR CURATIVE PURPOSES."
This Invention relates to a special combination of ingredients in or about fixed
proportions for the production of a powder or paste to be applied to the chest and
central part of the back between the shoulders of persons suffering from consump-
tion, phthisis, and other lung diseases, for the cure or relief of such complaints.
For the purposes of my Invention I take one ounce of powdered nutmeg, one
ounce of powdered nutgall, and half an ounce of calomel. These I thoroughly mix,
and add one drachm of spirits of wine to bind the particles of the other ingredients
together, and to preserve them from deteriorating after exposure or from long
keeping.
The spirits of wine becomes absorbed by the other ingredients, and after a short
time vapourizes, leaving the ingredients in a state of powder, but in perfect
amalgamation. This powder can be rubbed upon the person in a dry state, or it
may be mixed with pomatum or other fatty body as an embrocation, liniment, or
salve.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Elizabeth Spink in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 14th June
1877.!
ELIZABETH SPINK, of the City of York.
"IMPROVED COMBINATION OF IN-
GREDIENTS OR COMPOUNDS FOR CURATIVE PURPOSES."

page_text: This Invention relates to a special combination of ingredients in or about fixed
proportions for the production of a powder or paste to be applied to the chest
and central part of the back between the shoulders of persons suffering from
consumption, phthisis, and other lung diseases, for the cure or relief of such
complaints. The mixture may in some cases be taken inwardly with a liquid.
For the purposes of my Invention I take one ounce of powdered nutmeg, one ounce
of powdered nutgall, and half an ounce of calomel. These I thoroughly mix, and
add one drachm of spirits of wine to associate the particles of the other ingredients
together, and to preserve them from deteriorating after exposure, or from long
keeping.
The spirits of wine becomes absorbed by the ingredients, and after a short time
vapourizes, leaving the ingredients in a state of powder, but in perfect amalgama-
tion. This powder can be rubbed upon the person in a dry state, or it may be
mixed with ponatum or other fatty body as an embrocation, liniment, or salve, or
it may be taken inwardly in combination with water, wine, or other liquid under
medical advice. In practice however it is only necessary, especially in the early
stages of the disease, to enclose a little of the dry powder in a piece of new flannel,
and rub it on night and morning where the pain or irritation is felt exteriorly upon
the person; the rubbing of the powder is to be done gently, preferably night and
morning, the rubbed part being afterwards covered or protected by sheet wadding.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and one manner in which
the same can be put into practice, I declare that I claim the combination of nutmeg,
nutgall, and calomel in about the proportions named, and the application of said
ingredients in combination in dry powder form, in paste form, or in liquid form as
an embrocation or liniment, substantially in the manner described for the purpose
set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Elizabeth Spink, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twelfth day of June, One thousand eight hundred and
seventy-seven.
ELIZABETH SPINK. (L.S.)