Specification of Alexander Melville Clark : medicinal compound.

  • Clark, Alexander Melville.
Date:
1873
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Credit: Specification of Alexander Melville Clark : medicinal compound. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Provisional Clark's Improved Medicinal Compound. said salts are employed. I may also dispense with the sugar and simply add Vichy salts in order to render the aliment thus obtained more efficacious in the treatment of diabetes. The ingredients of the compound are to be well mixed, and then put immediately into tins and soldered up. The product (which combines the medicinal properties of 5 both milk and Vichy salts) will keep in this form for an indefinite period in any climate, and will be found to be of great service both as a hygienic and medical preparation. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said Alexander Melville Clark in the Great Seal Patent 10 Office on the 11th February 1873. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Alexander Melville Clark, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her 15 Letters Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her hems and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Alexander Melville Clark, Her special licence that I, the said Alexander Melville Clark, my executors, administrators, 20 and assigns, or such others as I, the said Alexander Melville Clark, 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 • '■ \ y term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 25 the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “A New or Improved Medicinal Compound/’ a communication to me from abroad by Claude Victor Viard, of Paris, Erance, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Alexander Melville Clark, my executors or ad¬ ministrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of 30 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 immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent. 35