Specification of Dinnis Burns : compounds for treating venereal disease.

  • Burns, Dinnis.
Date:
1869
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Credit: Specification of Dinnis Burns : compounds for treating venereal disease. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Bums' Improvements in Compounds for Treating Venereal Disease. of potash, the proportions being of “ balsam copaiva ” one ounce, gum arabic mucilage seven drams, and solution of potash one dram, with or without a portion of powdered “ cubebs,” “ prickly ask bark,” and tincture of henbane, 5 The sixth part of this Invention consists of an injection which is composed of pure starch 20 grains, sulphate of zinc 20 grains, spirits of camphor 20 drops, distilled water one ounce, to be used in the treatment of “ gonorrhoea.” The seventh part of this Invention relates to an aparient pill composed 10 of two and a half grains of “ Castile soap,” one grain of “ scammony,” 1 grain of “ extract of rhubarb,” and half a grain of “ rodolphylline ” to each pill, to he taken as an aparient pill in any stage of the disease. The eighth part of this Invention relates to a decoction to he employed in treating “gonorrhoea;” it is composed of “agrimony,” “cleavers,” 15 “horehound,” “yarrow,” “mountain flat,” and “liquorice,” one ounce of each to a quart of water. Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in or under which the same is or may he used or practically carried into effect, I would observe in conclusion that what I consider 20 novel and original and therefore claim as the Invention secured to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the combinations of substances forming the compounds for the treatment of the various forms or stages of the “ venereal ” disease, as herein-before described. In witness whereof, I, the said Dinnis Burns, have hereunto set 25 my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of March, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine. DINNIS BUENS. (l.s.) LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. 1869.