An Effervescing Medical Compound.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Oct., 1889-Accepted, 30th Nov., 1889
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Effervescing Medical Compound.
I, JOHN CARNRICK, of 447 Greenwich Street, in the City and State of New York,
United States of America, Manufacturing Chemist, 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 a granular effervescing compound, suitable for admixture
with water to form an agreeable, refreshing drink, and constituting a sedative nerve
and brain food.
The object of the invention is to provide, in convenient, agreeable form, a prompt
and efficient remedy for headache, neuralgia, insomnia, neurasthenia, and general
nervous irritability; also to provide for the weary brain worker not only a nerve
sedative, but a brain and nerve food; also to provide a compound in dry granular
form which can be readily added to a glass of water to produce a most refreshing
beverage, especially adapted for persons afflicted with the nerve and brain maladies
above mentioned.
In carrying out my invention, I mix with one or more of the nerve sedatives, such
as extract apii. graveolens dulcis, (solid extract of celery), and bromide of sodium
or potassium, one or more of the antipyretics, such as antipyrine, antifebrine,
kairin, sulphate of thallin, or benzanilide, giving preference, however, to antipyrine
and antifebrine, and to such mixture I add a nerve food, preferably phosphoric acid,
and a tonic stimulant, as caffein.
These ingredients are mixed with a proper proportion of an alkaline carbonate and
one or more fruit acids, to form an effervescing compound.
I preferably mix the ingredients forming my compound in about the following
proportions:
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Effervescing Medical Compound.
I, JOHN CARNRICK, of 447 Greenwich Street, in the City and State of New York,
United States of America, Manufacturing Chemist, 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 a granular effervescing compound, suitable for admixture
with water to form an agreeable, refreshing drink, and constituting a sedative nerve
and brain food.
The object of the invention is, to provide, in convenient, agreeable form, a prompt
and efficient remedy for headache, neuralgia, insomnia, neurasthenia, and general
nervous irritability; also to provide for the weary brain worker not only a nerve
sedative, but a brain and nerve food; also to provide a compound in dry granular
form which can be readily added to a glass of water to produce a most refreshing
beverage, especially adapted for persons afflicted with the nerve and brain maladies
above mentioned.
In carrying out my invention, I mix with one or more of the nerve sedatives, such
as extract apii. graveolens dulcis, (solid extract of celery), and bromide of sodium
or potassium, one or more of the antipyretics, such as antipyrine, antifebrine,
kairin, sulphate of thallin, or benzanilide, giving preference, however, to antipyrine
and antifebrine, and to such mixture I add a nerve food, preferably phosphoric acid,
and a tonic stimulant, as caffein.
These ingredients are mixed with a proper proportion of an alkaline carbonate and
one or more fruit acids, to form an effervescing compound.
I preferably mix the ingredients forming my compound in about the following
proportions:
Caffein
grains, 200
Acidum Phosphoricum
100
"
Antipyrine
100
"
Ext. apium graveolens dulc. (celery)
Sodium bromide
200
"
1000
"}
Sugar
ounces,
18
Bicarbonate Soda
"
171
Tartaric Acid
"
81
Citric Acid
6
"
All of these ingredients are reduced to a powder and thoroughly mixed in a
revolving or other mixer; they are then placed in a porcelain-lined steam-
jacketed vessel and heated till well melted or fused. The resulting magma, in a
sufficiently moist state, is passed through a sieve of about eight to twelve meshes to
the inch, so as to reduce it to a granular condition. The granular compound is then
carefully dried in the drying room, resulting in a body of perfectly dry, irregular,
light granules. In this condition the compound is put up in bottles, which are
immediately corked, and preferably sealed air-tight for its perfect preservation.
While I prefer to use all the active ingredients stated in the above formula in
manufacturing my sedative nerve and brain food, as giving the most satisfactory
results, I consider that the most essential and important constituents are caffein,
phosphoric acid and antipyrine or antifebrine. A mixture of these three ingredients
forms part of my invention.
While the tonic and stimulating action of the caffein is quickly exerted, the
phosphoric acid serves to feed the nerve and brain tissue, and prevent reaction

page_text: and depression. The antipyrine or antifebrine allays a feverish condition and stops
headache.
The extract of celery, besides exercising its sedative effect, gives a pleasant flavor
to the compound.
The bromide of sodium or bromide of potassium exercises its well known quieting
influence upon the brain and nerves.
The sedative action of the drugs used for that purpose produces no unpleasant after
effects, for the reason that the nerve and brain food (the phosphoric acid) restores the
nerves and brain to their normal condition. When taken at night, no unpleasant
feelings as a result thereof are experienced in the morning.
My improved compound has been found, by thorough testing, to give most satis-
factory results, and may be given in a dose of one to two heaped up tea-spoonfuls in
half a tumblerful of water.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1. A medical compound containing caffein, phosphoric acid, and an antipyretic, as
antipyrine or antifebrine.
2. A granular effervescing compound, containing as active ingredients caffein,
phosphoric acid, and an antipyretic, such as antipyrine or antifebrine.
3. A medical compound, in the nature of a sedative nerve and brain food, con-
taining caffein, phosphoric acid, an antipyretic, as antipyrine or antifebrine, and one
or more sedatives, as extract of celery, and sodium or potassium bromide.
4. A granular, effervescing, medical compound, in the nature of a sedative nerve
and brain food, containing caffein, phosphoric acid, an antipyretic, as antipyrine or
antifebrine, extract of celery, and sodium or potassium bromide.
Dated this 4th day of October 1889.
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.