Specification of Robert Veitch : powder for the cure of corns.

  • Veitch, Robert.
Date:
1873
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Robert Veitch : powder for the cure of corns. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Complete Specification. % Veitch's Powder for the Cure of Corns, 1 NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Eohert Veitch, do hereby declare that the following Complete Specification, under my hand and seal, fully describes and ascertains the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to he performed in and by the following state¬ ment :— 5 The object of my Invention is to releive pain by a new, safe, and improved method of eradicating corns from the feet. First. The corn is pared down to as near the root as possible without cutting to the quick. Second. The powder which is composed of orris root. Vanilla bean lO pounded, mustard, lime, and salt, is then used in the following manner, viz.:—A little of it is moistened and rubbed in with the finger to the root of the corn for two or three minuets at a time, when by the effects of friction and the valuable properties of the powder the corn withers and dies away. 15 In witness whereof, I, the said Eohert Veitch, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of Septr. in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two. (l.s.) eobeet veitch. A.D. 1872.—N“ 2865. LONDON; Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty. 11872.