A Process for the Manufacture of Medicinal Salves.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Apr., 1897-Accepted, 22nd May, 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Process for the Manufacture of Medicinal Salves.
I, HEINRICH BOHNE, of 19 Brauhausstrasse Halle on the Saale, in the German
Empire, Merchant, 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 :-
Medicinal salves have hitherto been made. manually and in small quantities by
pharmaceutical chemists according to recipes prescribed, because considerable manual
skill and great attention are required by the chemist to ensure the success of the
emulsion, the materials used for medicinal salves and the like being very simple. In
consequence the price of this important class of medicine is very high comparatively
and the quality of the product often leaves generally much to be desired, though great
skili may have been employed and great attention given the ease with which the
salve is absorbed depending upon the completeness of the emulsion.
:
This invention obviates the above disadvantages, and relates to the manufacture
of a base for salves, by the mixture in a certain manner and definite proportions of
two certain fats with a resinous substance which base may be made into a salve,.
easily absorbed by the human skin, by mixing it by slight stirring with any desired:
medicinal substance which may be either in solid fluid or pastelike form.
This invention thus renders it possible to manufacture salves of any kind on a
large scale.
Considerable experiments have shown that butter, wax and turpentine are the most
suitable substances for the purpose, in the following proportions, which must be
strictly adhered to :-
Butter
Purified turpenti..e
Wax
500 grains
125 grains
100 grains.
The butter must be pure, fresh, good cow's butter. And the wax must be purified
clear bee's wax. Venetian turpentine may be suitably substituted for ordinary
turpentine. Any addition of margarine to the butter is injurious.
The following produces a salve which possesses all the above advantages.
The butter is placed first into a suitable vessel and melted, 125 grains of turpentine
are then added, and when this have been diffused, the whole quantity of wax is added.
at once. The mixture is then allowed to remain hot until all the wax is completely
melted the whole is then stirred energetically until complete combination and.
amalgamation of the three substances has taken place.
To the mixture, while still fluid may be added medicinal substances of any desired
kind and in any desired quantity by simple stirring; fatty substances yield salves of
moderate consistency aqueous or spirituous solutions yield complete emulsions.
The fatty substance manufactured according to the above process and mixed with
medicinal substances enters the skin so easily that the use thereof is greatly
preferable to those at present in use.
As pure salve, without admixture of medicinal substances it is often advantageous.
for instance for chilblains, burns and other kinds of inflammation, it may be used as-
healing salve for such and then
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page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
⚫claim is :-
A process for the manufacture of medicinal salve, consisting in melting and
mixing butter, turpentine and pure bee's wax in the herein recited proportions to
which mixture may be added medicinal substances of any desired kind, substantially
as described.
FELL & JAMES,
Agents for the Applicant