IM- PROVED PREPARATIONS OF THE PLANT KNOWN AS THE COCA TO PERMIT ITS INCORPORATION WITH CONFECTIONARY OF ALL KINDS, SYRUPS, AND LIQUEURS,. AND ITS USE FOR DYEING
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Gedge, of the Firm of John Gedge
and Son, of No. 23, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IM-
PROVED PREPARATIONS OF THE PLANT KNOWN AS THE COCA TO PERMIT ITS
INCORPORATION WITH CONFECTIONARY OF ALL KINDS, SYRUPS, AND LIQUEURS,.
AND ITS USE FOR DYEING."-A communication from abroad by Felix-
Boutellas Desmoulins, of 15, Passage des Petites Ecuries, Paris,
France, Gentleman.
Sealed the 3rd July 1866, and dated the 20th January 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Edward Gedge.
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
20th January 1866.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD GEDGE, of the Firm of John Gedge and Son, of
No. 23, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of Mid-
dlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVED PREPARATIONS OF THE PLANT KNOWN AS THE COCA TO PERMIT ITS
INCORPORATION WITH CONFECTIONARY OF ALL KINDS, SYRUPS, AND LIQUEURS, AND ITS
USE FOR DYEING," a communication to me from abroad by Felix Boutellas.
Desmoulins, of 15, Passage des Petites Ecuries, Paris, France, to be as
follows:

page_text: This Invention consists in preparing with coca confectionary of all sorts,
sugar-plums, rosolios, pastilles, pastes, balls, cakes, tablets, gum, sugar, or
chocolate of any form and of any nature, and lastly in syrup liqueurs, and
in dyeing. The object of these preparations is to enclose either the extract
scientifically termed "cocaine," the powder, or the alcoholic or watery
extract of the coca, a plant obtained originally from Peru and Bolivia, and
which possesses extraordinary tonic properties. The following are various
methods of effecting the incorporation of either the extract called "cocaine,"
or the coca pulverized or not, in the above preparations in variable doses:-
Infuse the coca during three weeks in alcohol at 85 degrees (by "Baume's
areometer, (one part coca and seven parts alcohol, or filter in a displacing
apparatus, or distil the alcohol and the coca in an alembic, and incorporate
this extract, either liquid or solidified, and in variable doses, with the
above-mentioned preparations. Infuse the coca in water (one part coca,
ten parts water), or filter or distil as before directed, and incorporate this
extract, either liquid or solidified, and in variable doses, in the above-
mentioned preparations, For the liqueur, dilute the above alcoholic
extract in syrup at 36 degrees "Baumé" in proportions varying from
.one to three. For the syrup, add to the above watery extract sugar in
proportions varying from five to eight. For dyeing, prepare the coca
according to the above formula in alcohol at 85 degrees "Baumé," for pure
powder, or with water like absinthe.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Edward Gedge in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 18th July 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
EDWARD GEDGE, of the Firm of John Gedge and Son, of No. 23, South-
ampton Buildings, 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 Twentieth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the twenty-ninth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said William Edward Gedge, Her special licence that I, the said
William Edward Gedge, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said William Edward Gedge, my executors, administrators,

page_text: 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 "IMPROVED PREPARATIONS OF THE PLANT KNOWN AS THE
COCA TO PERMIT ITS INCORPORATION. WITH CONFECTIONARY OF ALL KINDS, SYRUPS,
AND LIQUEURS, AND ITS USE FOR DYEING," (a communication to me from abroad
by Felix Boutellas-Desmoulins, of 15, Passage des Petites Ecuries, Paris,
France, Gentleman,) upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
William Edward Gedge, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Edward Gedge, 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 :-
This Invention consists in preparing with coca confectionary of all sorts,
sugar-plums, rosolios, pastilles, pastes, balls, cakes, tablets, gum, sugar, or
chocolate of any form and of any nature, and lastly in syrups, liqueurs, and
in dyeing. The object of these preparations is to enclose either the extract
scientifically termed "cocaine," the powder, or the alcoholic or watery
extract of the coca, a plant obtained originally from Peru and Bolivia, and
which possesses extraordinary tonic properties. The following are various
methods of effecting the incorporation of either the extract called "cocaine,"
or the coca pulverized or not, in the above preparations in variable doses :-
Infuse the coca during three weeks in alcohol at 85 degrees by "Baumé's "
areometer (one part coca and seven parts alcohol), or filter in a displacing
apparatus, or distil the alcohol and the coca in an alembic, and incorporate
this extract, either liquid or solidified, and in variable doses, with the above-
mentioned preparations. Infuse or husk ("décocqueter "), the coca in water
(one part coça and ten parts water), or filter in the displacing apparatus,
or distil the water and the coca in an alembic, and incorporate this extract,
either liquid or solidified, and in variable doses, in the above-mentioned
preparations. For the liqueur, dilute the above alcoholic extract in syrup
at 36 degrees "Baumé," in proportions varying from 1 to 3. For the
syrup, add to the above watery extract sugar in proportions varying from

page_text: 5 to 8. For dyeing prepare the coca according to the above formula in
alcohol at 85 degrees "Baumé," to be taken or used pure, or with water
like absinthe. The coca may also be used in cigarettes by previously
macerating the leaves in alcohol at from 56 to 85 degrees "Baumé."
In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Gedge, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of July, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
W. E. GEDGE. (L.S.)