Specification of William Hibbert : medicinal compounds.

  • Hibbert, William.
Date:
1866
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Credit: Specification of William Hibbert : medicinal compounds. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hibbert's Improvements in Medicinal Compounds. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the twenty-ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said William Hibbert, Her special license that I, the said William Hibbert, my 5 executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Hibbert, 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 term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel 10 Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for ‘ ■ Improvements in the Combination op Chemical Matters and Mechanical Apparatus applied therewith for the Prevention or Cure op Contagious and other Diseases to which Human Beings and Animals are subject,” upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Hibbert, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in 15 writing under my, or their, or one of 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. &0 NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Hibbert, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following - statement, reference being had to the Figures on the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon (that is to say):— £5 This Invention consists, first, of a compound solution to be used internally as a medicine, or outwardly as baths, embrocations, or saturated bandages ; it also acts as a disinfectant and preventive agent against infectious diseases generally. Secondly, of mechanical apparatus for filtering, purifying, and disinfecting SO the polluted air or atmosphere in infected situations, It is particularly applicable to preventing and arresting the progress of fermentation and decom¬ position in the blood of human beings or animals, as in the cases of rinderpest, fevers, womb diseases, scrofula, mortification, glanders, mange, running sores, and other diseases arising from an unhealthy state of the blood. 35 The said compound consists of chlorides of magnesium, bromine, and zinc, either separately or in any combination. I take chloride of magnesium in solu-< tion at about 40° Twaddell, add from one to two ounces of bromine to a gallon of the said solution, and in some cases from five to ten per cent, of