Powder to be Used therewith.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Feb., 1887.
Complete Left, 2nd Aug., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 4th Oct., 1887
Powder to be Used therewith.
We JOHN HARREY HARFORD and WILLIAM W. REEVES Physicians both of
Cincinnati Hamilton County Ohio United States of America do hereby declare the
nature of this Invention to be as follows :-
The first part of our Invention relates to an instrument to enable the administration
to the nasal passages or other part to be treated of a medicated dust or powder.
The second part of our Invention relates to a specific preparation of such dust or
powder.
.
The desired quantity of our medicated powder is enclosed within an envelope of any
suitable textile or porous fabric such for example as cotton muslin so as to form a ball
or sphere.
The said ball is then enveloped in an external wrapper or bag also of any suitable
porous fabric of sufficient strength and the proper degree of permeability which is tied
tightly around the ball or sphere by a ligature of any suitable material such as linen
thread or silk floss.
The portion or skirt of the wrapper which extends below the ligature serves as a
handle whereby the instrument may be grasped by one hand while percussion is
applied by the other hand.
The preferred form of our said instrument has attached to its ligature portion
a combined snapper and supplemental handle which may have the following
construction.
We take a piece of spring wire and having given its middle portion a cross-like
configuration so as to form the snapper or knocker and helical springs the said wire is
then bent tightly around so as to firmly envelope the neck or ligatured portion of the
bag and being tightly twisted together on the other side of the bag forms a handle
which is grasped along with the depending portion or skirt of the wrapper by one
hand of the operator and the snapper is then retracted and suddenly released so that

page_text: its impact against the bag causes escape of a portion of the contents in the form of a
smoke-like cloud in condition to be easily inhaled by the patient and by its extreme
levity and the numerousness and minuteness of its particles to find its way to every
recess of the nasal cavities.
The above-described preferred form of our said instrument may be varied in certain
of its details for example.
The medicated powder may be enclosed in a single bag from which the described
interior casing is omitted.
The snapper proper may be of any suitable springy or resilient material—such as
whale-bone, watch-spring, goose-quill or wood and may be of any suitable shape.
Our medicated powder is prepared as follows.
We take in a dry condition and finely pulverize, mix and bolt.
Licorice root
White Hellebore
Slippery Elm
Camfrey
Yellow root
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One half pound.
Two
ditto.
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Three
ditto.
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T'wo
ditto.
One quarter ditto.
The above pulverulent compound is then carbolized by incorporating one-half a
pound of carbolic acid.
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We JOHN HARREY HARFORD and WILLIAM W. REEVES, Physicians both of
Cincinnati, Hamilton County Ohio, United States of America 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:-
The first part of this Invention relates to an instrument to enable the administration
to the nasal passages or other parts to be treated of a medicated dust or powder and
the second part of the said invention relates to a preparation of such dust or powder.
In the accompanying drawing:
Figures 1 and 2 are respectively a side and a front view of an instrument embodying
the first part of the invention. A small part of the enclosing envelopes are broken
away in Figure 1 in order to show the interior parts.
The desired quantity of our medicated powder, 1, is enclosed within an envelope 2
of any suitable textile or porous fabric such for example as cotton muslin, so as to
form a ball or sphere.
The said ball or sphere is then enveloped in the external wrapper or bag 3 also of
any suitable porous fabric of sufficient strength and the proper degree of permeability
and which is tied tightly around the ball by a ligature 4 of any suitable material such
for example as linen thread or silk floss.
The portion
of the wrapper 3 which extends below the ligature 4 is capable of
serving as a handle whereby the instrument may be grasped by one hand while
percussion is applied by the other hand.
The preferred form of the said instrument has attached to its ligature portion
a combined snapper and supplemental handle which may have the following
construction.
A piece of spring wire is taken and having given its middle portion a cross-like
form so as to form the snapper or knocker 6 and helical springs 7 the said wire is then
bent tightly around so as to firmly envelope the neck or ligatured portion of the bag
as at $ and being tightly twisted together on the other side of the bag forms a handle
which being grasped along with the depending portion or skirt 5 by one hand of the
operator and the snapper 6 having been first retracted as represented in Figure 1 and
then suddenly released its impact against the bag causes escape of a portion of the
contents in the form of a smoke-like cloud in condition to be easily inhaled by the
patient, and by its extreme levity and the numerousness and minuteness of its particles
to find its way to every recess of the nasal cavities.
The above described preferred form of the said instrument may be varied in certain
of its details for example:-
:-
The medicated powder may be enclosed in a single bag from which the described
interior casing is omitted.

page_text: The snapper proper may be of any suitable springy or resilient material-such for
example as whale-bone, watch spring, goose quill or wood and may be of any suitable
shape.
The medicated powder is prepared as follows:-
These are taken in a dry condition and finely pulverised mixed and bolted.
Liquorice root
White Hellebore
Slippery Elm
Camfrey
Yellow Root
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lb.
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2 lbs.
3
"
2
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1)
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The above pulverulent compound is then carbolized by encorporating therewith
lb. of carbolic acid.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said Invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we claim is :-
First. The combination of ligatured ball or bag of a porous material or fabric
charged with medicated powder and having attached to its ligatured portion a
combined snapper and handle substantially as hereinbefore set forth and illustrated by
the accompanying drawings.
Second. The carbolized disinfecting or medicated powder composed or compounded
as herein before set forth.
Dated this 2nd day of Aumunt 1007