Specification of Charles Constant Joseph Guffroy : preparing medicinal substances and compounds from the livers of cod, &c.

  • Guffroy, Charles Constant Joseph.
Date:
1862
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    Preparing Medicinal Substances and Compounds from the Livers of Cod, &c. LETTERS PATENT to Charles Constant Joseph Guffroy, of Lille, in the Empire of France, Merchant, for the Invention of “ Improvements in Preparing Medicinal Substances and Compounds prom the Livers op Cod AND OTHER SALT WATER FlSH.” Sealed the 24th January 1862, and dated the 29th July 1861. PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Constant Joseph Guffroy at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition on the 29th July 1861. I, Charles Constant Joseph Guffroy, of Lille, in the Empire of France, 5 Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “ Improve¬ ments in Preparing Medicinal Substances and Compounds prom the Livers of Cod and other Salt Water Fish,” to be as follows :— My Invention consists in treating the watery liquid obtained from or remaining after the extraction of oil from the liver of cod and other salt water 10 fish in manner hereafter explained. In Letters Patent granted to me the 20th July I860, No. 1764, I claimed the extraction of a substance in a state of paste from the said watery liquid. Now I take the watery liquid, and after separating the albumen (coagulated by heat) therefrom, I add to it sugar, honey, or other saccharine matter, 15 subject the mixture to heat, and proceed in the manner ordinarily followed by chemists in the manufacture of medicinal syrup. Or I take the watery liquid, and instead of evaporating down to the state of paste, as described in the