IMPROVEMENTS IN PILLS
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Reuben Jacob Jordan, of Berners Street, Oxford
Street, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, for the Invention of
** IMPROVEMENTS IN PILLS."
Sealed the 6th November 1860, and dated the 15th May 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Reuben Jacob Jordan
nt the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 15th May 1860.
I, REUBEN JACOB JORDAN, of Berners Street, Oxford Street, in the County
5 of Middlesex, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PILLS," to be as follows:-
My improvements in pills relate to the combination of materials subjoined
in about the proportions given, and to coloring them rose pink. Other ingre-
dients may be added, if desired, but I believe the proportions and ingredients
0 stated to produce the best medicine.
RECIPE FOR PILLS.
2 oz. gum gambogia.
1
1
1
"
"
pulo rhoi optimus.
"gum myrrh.
" sapo Castile.
5
i
"
pulo aloes Soce.
"
33
lingib optimus.
13
"
sum cardum.
4
"

page_text: I mix these ingredients with syrup or other suitable matter to form a mass.
Having formed this compound into pills in the usual manner, I coat them
with sugar, as well understood, which I produce of a rose pink color, in order
to render the appearance of the pills more acceptable.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Reuben Jacob Jordan in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 15th November 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, REUBEN
JACOB JORDAN, of Berners Street, Oxford Street, in the County of Middlesex,
Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-third year of. Her
reign, did, for Herself, Ifer heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Reuben Jacob Jordan, Her special licence that I, the said Reuben
Jacob Jordan, executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Reuben Jacob Jordan, my executors, administrators, 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 In-
vention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PILLS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Reuben Jacob Jordan, 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 Reuben Jacob Jordan, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement (that is to say):
My improvements in pills relate to the combination of materials subjoined
in about the proportions given, and to coloring them rose pink. Other ingre-
dients may be added, if desired, but I believe the proportions and ingredients
stated to produce the best medicine.

page_text: compouna
Lune,
Two ounces of gum gambogia;
One ounce of pulo rhoci optimus;
One ounce of gum myrrh;
One ounce of sapo Castile;
One ounce of pulo aloes Soce;
One ounce of lingib optimus;
One ounce of sum cardium.
I mix these ingredients with syrup or other suitable matter to form a mass.
Having formed this compound into pills in the usual manner, I coat them
with sugar, as well understood in confectionary, which I produce of a rose
pink color, in order to render the appearance of the pills more acceptable.
Having described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of per-
forming the same, I declare that what I claim as my Invention, to be protected
by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent, is, pills compounded of the
ingredients and in about the proportions above named, and also rendering the
sugar coating thereof of a rose pink color, as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Reuben Jacob Jordan, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of November, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty.
REUBEN JACOB JORDAN. (L.S.)
REUBEN JACOB JORDAN. (L.S.)