IMPROVED CAPSULES FOR MEDICINAL INJECTIONS
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Morgan (Secretary of the Inventors' Patentright
Association, Limited), of 21, Cockspur Street, Charing Cross, Westminster,
in the County of Middlesex, for an Invention of "IMPROVED CAPSULES FOR
MEDICINAL INJECTIONS." A communication from abroad by Edmond Alfred
Goupil, of Paris, in the Republic of France, Doctor of Medicine.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Morgan at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd February 1880.
THOMAS MORGAN (Secretary of the Inventors' Patentright Association, Limited),
of 21, Cockspur Street, Charing Cross, Westminster, in the County of Middlesex.
"IMPROVED CAPSULES FOR MEDICINAL INJECTIONS." (A communication from
abroad by Edmond Alfred Goupil, of Paris, in the Republic of France, Doctor
of Medicine.)
Capsules of gelatinous materials have already been employed for administering
medicines of disagreeable taste and odour to sick persons by enclosing the medicine
within the capsule and thereby disguising it, so that the patient is enabled to take
it without difficulty.
Now according to this Invention capsules of a similar description are employed
for applying remedies to be used in the treatment of diseases requiring the
application of medicaments in the form of injections in natural and pathological
cavities of the body. Such capsules are formed to contain a properly measured
quantity of the medicine to be applied, and constitute in themselves the apparatus
requisite for the propulsion and injection of the remedies into the diseased cavities.
For example, these capsules may contain any of the remedies or medicaments
administered in affections of the natural or pathological cavities of the urethra,
vagina, ears, nasal organs, or fistula, as well as for administering collyrium or
suppositories (medicines to be injected into the rectum). The capsule so formed
constitutes at the same time the receptacle, the measure of quantity, and the
instrument of injection, thereby obviating the necessity of employing the syringe
or instrument, which is necessary for administering all descriptions of injections
according to the ordinary method, as well as the phial containing the supply of the
liquid to be injected.

page_text: The capsules employed in carrying out this Invention are preferably made of a
pear shape with one extremity drawn out to a point. The body of the capsule
may be of a spherical, egg-shaped, cylindrical, or any other convenient form, the
point being tubular or conical in shape and slightly curved if desired. In order to
use the injection contained in the capsule, the extremity of the point must be torn
off with the finger nail, and the point itself is introduced into the diseased canal or
cavity, then by exerting pressure upon the body of the capsule the contents are
administered in the form of an injection. If preferred the materials composing the
point may be reduced in thickness at the extremity in order that they may give
way at this part under the action of the pressure exerted in introducing the point
into the diseased cavity. When the point is open the contents of the capsule are
immediately injected.
If required (but this arrangement is not so advantageous) the point of the capsule
may be dispensed with altogether, or a slight projection only may be provided, the
capsule being simply perforated at one point in order to provide an orifice for the
discharge of the contents, the side of the capsule being made thinner at this part
to enable it to break readily under pressure. The substance of which the capsule
is composed will necessarily vary according to the nature of the injection which it is
to contain; but in all cases the materials employed must be sufficiently soft to
admit of compression between the fingers. For example, gum, india-rubber, gutta-
percha, glycerine, sugar, gluten, or dextrine may be employed either separately or
in combination; or again, tin or other thin sheets of metal, or leather, goldbeaters'
skin, and the like may be used for this purpose.
It is evident that by the employment of these capsules the cumbrous and
objectionable apparatus and paraphernalia usually employed are dispensed with.
Moreover the remedy is administered with great safety and precision, besides being
preserved and protected as well as measured.
No special preparations are required for administering the remedy, and the
softness of the material of which the capsule is composed prevents any danger from
tearing or injuring the tissues.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Thomas Morgan in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 23rd August
1880.
THOMAS MORGAN (Secretary of the Inventors' Patentright Association, Limited),
of 21, Cockspur Street, Charing Cross, Westminster, in the County of Middlesex.
"IMPROVED CAPSULES FOR MEDICINAL INJECTIONS." (A communication from
abroad by Edmond Alfred Goupil, of Paris, in the Republic of France, Doctor
of Medicine).
Capsules of gelatinous materials have already been employed for administering
medicines of disagreeable taste and odour to sick persons by enclosing the medicine
within the capsule and thereby disguising it, so that the patient is enabled to take
it without difficulty. Now according to this Invention capsules of a similar
description are employed for applying remedies to be used externally (as may
be designated), and especially in the treatment of diseases requiring the application
of medicaments in the form of injections in natural and pathological cavities of the
body. Such capsules are formed to contain a properly measured quantity of the
medicine to be applied, and constitute in themselves the apparatus requisite for
the propulsion and injection of the remedies into the diseased cavities. For
example, these capsules may contain any of the remedies or medicaments adminis-
tered in affections of the natural or pathological cavities of the urethra, vagina,
ears, nasal organs, or fistula, as well as for administering collyrium or suppositories
(medicines to be injected into the rectum). The capsule so formed constitutes at
the same time the receptacle, the measure of quantity, and the instrument of
injection, thereby obviating the necessity of employing the syringe or instrument
which is necessary for administering all descriptions of injections according to the
ordinary method, as well as the phial containing the supply of the liquid to be
injected.
The capsules employed in carrying out this Invention are preferably made of a
pear shape, with one extremity drawn out to a point. The body of the capsule
may be of a spherical, egg-shaped, cylindrical, or any other convenient form, the
point being tubular or conical in shape and slightly curved if desired.
In order to use the injection contained in the capsule the extremity of the point
must be toru off (as with the finger nail), and the point itself is introduced into
the diseased canal or cavity; then by exerting pressure upon the body of the
capsule the contents are administered in the form of an injection. If preferred the
materials composing the point may be reduced in thickness at the extremity in
order that they may give way at this part under the action of the pressure exerted
in introducing the point into the diseased cavity. When the point is open the
contents of the capsule are immediately injected.
If required (but this arrangement is not so advantageons) the point of the capsule
may be dispensed with altogether, or a slight projection only may be provided, the
capsule being simply perforated at one point in order to provide an orifice for the
discharge of the contents, the side of the capsule being made thinner at this part
to enable it to break readily under pressure. The substance of which the capsule
is composed will necessarily vary according to the nature of the injection which
it is to contain; but in all cases the materials employed must be sufficiently soft
to admit of compression between the fingers. For example, gum, india rubber,
gutta-percha, glycerine, sugar, gluten, or dextrine may be employed either separately
or in combination; or again, tin or other thin sheets of metal, or leather, goldbeaters'
skin, and the like may be used for this purpose.
It is evident that by the employment of these capsules the cumbrous and
objectionable apparatus and paraphernalia usually employed are dispensed with.
Moreover the remedy is administered with great safety and precision, besides

page_text: being preserved and protected as well as measured. No special preparations are
required for administering the remedy, and the softness of the material of which
the capsule is composed prevents any danger from tearing or injuring the tissues.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed or put in practice,
I hereby declare that I claim, the employment of soft capsules for administering
medicaments employed in the form of injections for external application (as it may
be designated), in the treatment of diseases or affections of natural and pathological
cavities, fistula, and the like, such capsules constituting in themselves the envelope,
measure, and instrument for propelling or injecting, said capsules being formed of
various materials, of any form and dimensions suited to the medicines employed,
and to the diseases in the treatment of which they are applied, substantially as
herein before set forth and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Morgan, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty third day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty.
MOMS MORGAN