A Pharmaceutical Preparation of Antiseptic and Curative Properties for the Treatment of Sores, Glandular Swellings, and Affections of Mucous Membranes.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Mar., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Nov., 1897—Accepted, 22nd Jan., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Pharmaceutical Preparation of Antiseptic and Curative Properties
for the Treatment of Sores, Glandular Swellings, and Affections
of Mucous Membranes.
I, JAMES PRICE CLEGHORN, & pensioned Executive Engineer of the Bengal
Public Works Department, residing at No. 2 Peara Bagan Road, Ballygunge,
Calcutta, India, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
:-
A solution, in certain proportions varied according to circumstances, of
camphor in carbolic acid whereby, certain precautions being observed in the
process, the caustic or corrosive properties of the acid are neutralized; the same
being thus rendered safe when used medicinally either internally or externally
by the human subject.
Dated this Sixteenth day of February 1897.
A Pharmaceutical Preparation of Antiseptic and Curative Properties
for the Treatment of Sores, Glandular Swellings, and Affections
of Mucous Membranes.
I, JAMES PRICE CLEGHORN, a pensioned Executive Engineer of the Public Works
Department, Bengal, residing at No. 3, Peara Bagan Road, Ballygunge,
Calcutta, India, 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:
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The object of my invention is the production of a medicinal compound for
human use either internally or externally as may be necessary. When used
internally for any disease in which Camphor or Carbolic Acid is now used, the
dose recommended is one drop on sugar taken once every six hours or less often
if necessary, or if headache results from too frequent use. A drop on the tip of
the finger may be applied to the internal nostrile in colds, or to the ear in ear-
ache. It may also be inhaled in the form of vapour. When used externally it
may be applied as an ointment and, as it dries and forms a film over the surface
to which it is applied, no covering is required.
My invention consists of a saturated solution of Camphor in Carbolic Acid and
is prepared in the following manner.
I take about 16 lbs. weight of Camphor and dissolve it in about one lb. weight
of Carbolic Acid, letting the mixture stand for this purpose for 3 days at a

page_text: temperature a little above the melting point of the Acid used. Owing to the
variations in strength of Carbolic Acid and in the purity of Camphor, care must
be taken that a small quantity of Camphor remains undissolved, as an indication
of the thorough neutralization of the corrosive properties of the Acid. Should all
the Camphor be dissolved when using the above proportions an additional small 5
quantity of Camphor should be added to secure the residue of Camphor above
referred to.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is:-
The combination of Camphor and Carbolic Acid in a saturated solution
whereby the corrosive effects of the Acid are thoroughly neutralized, prepared as
and for the purposes hereinbefore described and set forth.
Dated this Fourth day of November 1897.