A COMPOUND PILL AND OINTMENT FOR THE CURE OF SCORBUTIC AND SIMILAR DISORDERS OF THE HUMAN BODY
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Adam Hall Hardy and Jacob Hardy Fordoff, both
of North Bierley, in the County of York, for the Invention of "A
COMPOUND PILL AND OINTMENT FOR THE CURE OF SCORBUTIC AND SIMILAR
DISORDERS OF THE HUMAN BODY."
Sealed the 19th February 1856, and dated the 25th August 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Adam Hall Hardy and
Jacob Hardy Fordoff at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 25th August 1855.
We, ADAM HALL HARDY and JACOB HARDY FORDOFF, both of North Bierley,
in the County of York, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "A COMPOUND PILL AND OINTMENT FOR THE CURE OF SCORBUTIC AND SIMILAR
DISORDERS OF THE HUMAN BODY" to be as follows (that is to say):-
Our said Invention, which has reference to curing the above-mentioned
disorders by the combined and mutually assisting action of a pill to be taken
internally, and an ointment to be applied to the external parts affected, is
carried into effect as follows:-
We manufacture, in the first place, a certain description of pills, in which
the following ingredients are used, viz. :-Half a pound of socatrine aloes, half
a pound of cape aloes, two ounces of powder jalap, three ounces of syrup of
buckthorne, and half an ounce of oil of sweet almonds; these ingredients we

page_text: boil together over a slow fire until the consistency thereof is fit for pills, and
then add half an ounce of calomel, which we cause to be well rubbed into the
mass, which we then divide into five-grain pills.
And, secondly, a certain ointment, in the preparation of which we use the
following substances, viz. :-Two pounds four ounces of lard, four ounces of
white precipitate, two ounces of red precipitate, two drachms of turmeric, with
half a drachm of oil of origanum; the whole to be worked together on a slab
about half an hour, until it arrives at a consistency suitable for salve or oint-
ment. These medicaments act as follows:-The disorder is removed from the
system by the action of the pills, while the external parts affected are relieved
by the application of the ointment.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance-of-the-conditions. of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Adam Hall Hardy and Jacob Hardy Fordoff in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 25th February 1856.-.
TO ALL. TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ADAM
HALL HARDY and JACOB HARDY FORDOFF, both of North Bierley, in the
County of York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself,. Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said Adam Hall Hardy and Jacob Hardy Fordoff, Her special licence
that we, the said Adam Hall Hardy and Jacob Hardy Fordoff, our execu-
tors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Adam Hall
Hardy and Jacob Hardy Fordoff, our 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 Invention for "A
COMPOUND PILL AND OINTMENT FOR THE CURE OF SCORBUTIC AND SIMILAR DISORDERS
OF THE HUMAN BODY," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said
Adam Hall Hardy and Jacob Hardy Fordoff, our executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under our, or their, or one of their hands and
scals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, and in what. manner the same was to be performed, and cause the

page_text: 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 we, the said Adam Hall Hardy and Jacob Hardy
Fordoff, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement (that is to say) :-
Our Invention, which has reference to the cure of scorbutic and other
similar disorders of the human body, consists, firstly, in manufacturing from
certain chemical compound preparations an improved pill, called "Doctor.
Hardy's family pill of health."
And, secondly, a description of ointment called "old Doctor Hardy's cele-
brated scorbutic ointment," to be used in connection with the said pills or
otherwise.
But in order that this our said Invention may be fully understood and
readily carried into effect, we now proceed to describe in detail the ingredients
and proportions or quantities employed by us in manufacturing the said pills
and ointment respectively (that is to say):-For our improved pill we cause half
a pound of socatrine aloes, half a pound of cape aloes, two ounces of powder
jalap, three ounces of syrup of buckthorne, and half an ounce of oil of sweet
almonds, to be boiled together over a slow fire until the consistency thereof
is fit for pills; we then add half an ounce of calomel, and cause the same
to be well rubbed into the mass, which we then divide and form into five-
grain pills.
In the manufacture of our improved ointment the following ingredients and
quantities are employed, namely:-Two pounds and four ounces of lard, four
ounces of white precipitate, two ounces of red precipitate, two drachms of
tumeric, together with half a drachm of oil of origanum; the whole of which
are to be worked together on a slab, or by any other suitable means, for about
half an hour, until fit for use.
Having now fully described the nature of this our said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed and carried into effect, we would
have it clearly understood the we do not by any means intend to confine our-
selves to the precise details herein-before described, as the same might be
varied without departing from the general principle of this our said Invention;
but that which we do claim as new and of our said Invention is,―
Firstly, the employment of the compound preparations or ingredients as
mentioned under the first head of our Invention, in the manufacture of pills
for the purpose above described.

page_text: And, secondly, the employment of the compound preparations or ingredients
referred to under the second head of our Invention in the manufacture of
ointment, in the manner and for the purposes herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Adam Hall Hardy, on behalf of myself
and of the said Jacob Hardy Fordoff, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Witness,
ADAM HALL HARDY. (L.S.)
F: R. DARKIN CAMPBELL,
Clerk to Mess" Weatherdon & Co.,
77, Chancery Lane.