Specification of Samuel Kay and Thomas Kay : medicinal compound.

  • Kay, Samuel.
Date:
1873
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    Specification. S. 8f T. Kay’s Improved Medicinal Compound. We farther use the same ingredients (viz., concentrated linseed extract and sugar), and add thereto before rolling, moulding, or shaping the mass a proportion of any medicament, such as chlorodyne, strong chloric ether or chloral hydrate, hut we prefer a chlorodyne made with morphia meconate compound with an expectorant as ipecacuanha or 5 antimony in approved doses. We farther make an improved medicinal compound which contains concentrated within it the fluid extract of senega, scilla, papavera, marrubium, chivetta, or other tonic, ipecacuanha, or antimony in wine, or both in the approved officinal proportions, and we emulsify the clear 10 liquor with linseed by decoction in close steam jacketed pans. The strained product is then farther medicated with a distillate of star anniseeds, cherry, laurel, tolu balsam, gum benjamin, sulphuric, or chloric ether, and with sufficient mucilage aided by powerful agitators to produce a complete and homogeneous mixture which contains the demulcent 15 properties of linseed combined with the cordial, balsamic, soothing, strengthening, and expectorating properties of the above medicines in a portable and convenient form. We farther make an aperient pill by taking of the dried herb lenerin catharticum (purging linseed) or mountain flax as it is commonly called, 20 and after boiling the same we inspissate the liquid until an extract is obtained of a plastic consistence. We mix this with other vegetable remedies, rhubarb, aloes, myrrh, cardamoms, mandrake, hyosciamms, and gentian extract, and we use Castile soap wherewith to make a mass and keep soluble and active the various ingredients. 25 SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said Samuel Kay and Thomas Kay in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 28th November 1873.’ TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, Samuel Kay and Thomas Kay, of Stockport, in the County of Chester, Chemist, 30 send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first 'day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the