Specification of Dinnis Burns : compounds for treating venereal disease.

  • Burns, Dinnis.
Date:
1869
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    Provisional Specification. A.D. 1868.—N° 3525. 3 Burns' Improvements in Compounds for Treating Venereal Disease. ' 1 grain of “ extract of rhubarb,” and half a grain of “ rodolphylline ” to each pill, to be taken for “ spermatorrbcea.” The eighth part of this Invention relates to a decoction to he employed in treating “ gonorrhoea;” it is composed of “agrimony,” “cleavers,” 5 “horehound,” “yarrow,” “mountain flat,” and “ liquorice,” one ounce of each to a quart of water. As constituting this Invention, and as novel and original, it is intended to claim the several compounds or combinations of substances herein¬ before described as applicable to the treatment of the disease or diseases 10 mentioned. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said Dinnis Burns in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 13th May 1869. . TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PEESENTS SHALL COME, I, Dinnis 15 Burns, of Edinburgh, in the County of Mid Lothian, North Britain, send greeting. : 1 ‘- - X .a* v - ' . ) WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of November, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-iglit, in the thirty- , . . r r* C * * * rr 20 second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Dinnis Burns, Her special license that I, the said Dinnis Burns, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Dinnis Burns, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no. 25 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 “Improvements in Chemical Compounds to be employed in Treating Diseases of the 30 Generative Organs,” upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Dinnis Burns, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, 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