Improvements in the Method of Applying and Manufacture of Antiseptic, Disinfecting, Curative, and Healing Agents.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Nov., 1886
Complete Left, 12th Aug., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 11th Oct., 1887
Improvements in the Method of Applying and Manufacture of
Antiseptic, Disinfecting, Curative, and Healing Agents.
I HENRY ELLIS HARRIS of 66 Finsbury Pavement in the County of Middlesex,
Dentist do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :—
This invention relates to an improved method of applying and manufacture of dis-
infecting, antiseptic, curative and healing agents, the improvements having for object to
provide such agents in a convenient form suitable for purifying the air of hospital wards
and sick chambers or other rooms or places, vehicles and the like or disinfecting or
fumigating articles of clothing, and also for medicinally treating various affections
and diseases, such as bronchial affections, scrofula, syphhilis, ashthma, phthisis, or
other complaints susceptible of being treated by medicinal substances when vaporized
or in the form of fume or smoke; also for applying the said fume, smoke or vapour
produced as aforesaid, to surgical operations in which the use of antiseptics is
necessary.
My invention consists in combining the materials or agents to be employed as
the disinfectant or antiseptic or curative with a suitable combustible compound which
is then made into the form of pastilles, matches, vesuvians or otherwise and may be
advantageously provided with igniting composition in such a manner that the article
can be ignited like an ordinary match and in burning, the curative, disinfectant or
antiseptic agent will be converted into or liberated and given off in the form of vapour,
smoke or fume as the case may be.

page_text: It will be obvious that the curative or other agents, instead of being combined with
the combustible compound as above named may be contained in any suitable receptacle
such as a tube or a cup or fuse containing the disinfectant, antiseptic or curative agent,
surrounded or partially so with the composition, the tube having a suitable vent or
vents.
Or I can employ sponge, wood, cord or pumice, asbestos or the like which (in the
case of liquid agents) can be saturated with the curative, antiseptic or disinfecting
agent.

page_text: Antiseptic, Disinfecting, Ourative, and Healing Agents.
I, HENRY ELLIS HARRIS, of 66, Finsbury Pavement, in the county of Middlesex,
Dentist, 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:-
This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of and method of
applying antiseptic, disinfecting, curative and healing agents the improvements having
for object to provide such agents in a convenient form suitable for purifying the air of
hospital wards and sick chainbers or other rooms or places, vehicles and the like, or
disinfecting or fumigating articles of clothing and also for medicinally treating various
affections and diseases, such as bronchial affections, scrofula, syphilis, asthma, phthisis,
or other complaints susceptible of being treated by medicinal substances when vaporized
or in the form of fume or smoke, also for applying the said fume, smoke or vapour
produced as aforesaid to surgical operations in which the use of antiseptics are
necessary.
My invention consists in combining the materials or agents to be employed as the
disinfectant or antiseptic or curative, with a suitable combustible compound which is
then made into the form of pastilles, matches, vesuvians or otherwise and may be
advantageously provided with igniting composition in such a manner that the article
can be ignited like an ordinary match and in burning the curative, disinfectant or
antiseptic agent will be converted into or liberated and given off in the form of vapour,
smoke or fume as the case may be.
It will be obvious that the curative or other agents, instead of being combined with
the combustible compound as above named may be contained in any suitable
receptacle such as a tube or a cup or fuse containing the disinfectant, antiseptic or
curative agent surrounded or partially so with the composition, the tube having a
suitable vent or vents.
Or I can employ sponge, wood, cord or pumice, asbestos or the like which (in the
case of liquid agents) can be saturated with the curative, antiseptic, or disinfecting
agent.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The manufacture of and method of applying antiseptic, disinfecting, curative and.
healing agents substantially as hereinbefore described.