Scab Ointment.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Dec., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Sept., 1896-Accepted, 24th Oct., 1896
Scab Ointment.
I, ALFRED EMANUEL HENRIKSSON, of Asphyttan, Daglösen, in the Kingdom
of Sweden, Watchmaker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
Animals, when infected with scab, are often subject to great sufferings―they
rub their skins and become thin and lose their hair or fur.
Scab has hitherto been found to be difficult to heal.
The inventor has however succeeded in producing an ointment which has since
proved, by numerous trials with horses and dogs, to be an excellent medium for
combating scab. A few rubbings are sufficient to restore the animals to health.
The scab ointment is prepared in the following manner :-30 to 80 per cent. of
animal fat (preferably from pigs) or vaseline is melted by heating it, whereupon
from 4 to 20 per cent. of finely pulverized tobacco and from 5 to 30 per cent. of
wood ashes are well mixed with it. The mixture is cooled to a paste like
consistency and then mixed with from 5 to 20 per cent. of pulverized sulphur and
from 5 to 25 per cent. of oil of turpentine. The whole is well stirred or roused
so as to obtain a homogeneous mass, which is afterwards allowed to cool
completely.
The ointment need only be applied a few times to the infected spot, when, in a
very short time, the change for the better will be observed and the animal be
restored to health.
Dated this 9th day of December 1895.
HARRIS & MILLS,
23 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents.
Scab Ointment.
I, ALFRED EMANUEL HENRIKSSON, of Asphyttan, Daglösen, in the Kingdom
of Sweden, Watchmaker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
Animals, when infected with scab, are often subject to great sufferings, they rub-
their skins and become thin and lose their hair, wool or fur.
Scab has hitherto been found to be difficult to heal.
The inventor has however succeeded in producing an ointment, which has since
proved, by numerous trials with horses and dogs, to be an excellent medium for
curing scab. A few rubbings are sufficient to restore the animal to health.
The scab ointment is prepared in the following manner :-
The
30 to 80 per cent. of animal fat (preferably from pigs) or vaseline is melted by
heating it, and there is then added and well mixed therewith from 4 to 20 per cent.
of finely pulverised tobacco and from 5 to 30 per cent. of wood ashes.
mixture is cooled to a paste-like consistency and then mixed with from 5 to 20 per
cent. of pulverised sulphur and from 5 to 25 per cent. of oil of turpentine. The

page_text: whole is well stirred or agitated so as to obtain a homogeneous mass, which is
afterwards allowed to cool completely.
The ointment need only be applied a few times to the infected spot, when, in a
very short time, the change for the better will be observed and the animal be
restored to health.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inveu-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A process for preparing an ointment for curing scab in animals, consisting in
melting together 30-80% of animal fat or vaseline, in adding and well mixing
therewith 4-20% of finely powdered tobacco and 5-30% of wood ashes, in
then allowing the mixture to cool down somewhat and finally treating it with
5-20% of powdered sulphur and 5-25% of oil of turpentine, the whole
being then thoroughly worked together, after which the fully homogeneous mixture
is allowed to cool down completely.
2. An ointment for curing scab in animals, consisting of animal fat or vaseline,
tobacco, wood ashes, sulphur, and oil of turpentine, compounded substantially as
herein before set forth.
Dated this 2nd day of September 1896.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.