AN IMPROVED PREPARATION OR MEDICINE FOR THE CURE OF AGUE
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Burnell, of East Hoathly, in the County of
Sussex, Gentleman, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED PREPARATION OR
MEDICINE FOR THE CURE OF AGUE."
Sealed the 22nd November 1859, and dated the 23rd May 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Burnell at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
23rd May 1859.
I, GEORGE BURNELL, of East Hoathly, in the County of Sussex, Gentleman,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED PREPA-
RATION OR MEDICINE FOR THE CURE OF AGUE," to be as follows:-
I mix the following ingredients in about the proportions indicated, and
divide the whole into four powders for an adult, and administer them as
follows: One to be taken in warm milk or tea before the shivering com-
mences, and afterwards repeat them about every two hours, so long as the
shivering continues:
Of powdered rhubarb, twenty-seven grains,
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powdered bark, twenty-seven grains,
powdered snake root, twenty-seven grains,
salts of tartar, twenty-seven grains,
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quinine, sixteen grains.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Burnell in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
23rd November 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
BURNELL, of East Hoathly, in the County of Sussex, Gentleman, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria,, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-second year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said George Burnell, Her special licence that I, the said George Burnell,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George
Burnell, 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 Invention for "AN IMPROVED PREPARATION
OR MEDICINE FOR THE CURE OF AGUE," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said George Burnell, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Burnell, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (that is to say) :-
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My improved medicine for the cure of ague I prepare and administer as
follows: The ingredients I use are, rhubarb, bark, snake root, quinine, and
salts of tartar, which are intimately mixed in the form of powder, and in the
following quantities and proportions, which are sufficient for four powders for
an adult:
Of rhubarb in powder I take
Of bark in powder -
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27 grains,
27 grains,
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27 grains,
16 grains,
Of snake root in powder
:
Of quinine
7
And of salts of tartar
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27 grains.

page_text: I mix the four first-mentioned ingredients intimately, and then add the salts
of tartar, which I also mix intimately therewith, and then divide the whole
into four powders. For a greater number of powders the quantities are
increased according to the number of powders required, but always of the same
or nearly the same proportions above indicated. For young persons and
children, the quantities prepared above should of course be divided into five,
six, or even eight or ten powders, according to the age of the patient.
I administer these powders to the patient at the times and in manner
following-One powder is to be mixed with and taken in warm milk, or it
may be in tea, before the shivering commences; I afterwards repeat the same
dose about every two hours, so long as the shivering continues.
Having described the nature of my Invention and the manner of performing
the same, I desire it to be understood that I do not confine myself rigidly to
the proportions herein specified, or to the mode of administering the medicine,
as these proportions may be somewhat varied, as also other ingredients might
be added, either as an addition to the powder or as a vehicle for its adminis-
tration without departing from my Invention, observing that the proportions
above specified and the mode of administering I believe to be the best for the
purpose, and therefore claim and desire to secure by the herein-before in part
recited Letters Patent, or any mere modification thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Burnell, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
5 Witness,
W. CLARK,
GEORGE BURNELL. (L.S.)
Patent Agent,
53, Chancery Lane, London,