Specification of Edmund Adolphus Kirby : dispensing medicines.

  • Kirby, Edmund Adolphus.
Date:
1868
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Credit: Specification of Edmund Adolphus Kirby : dispensing medicines. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Dispensing Medicines. LETTERS PATENT to Edmund Adolphus Kirbj, of Gordon Square, in the County of Middlesex, Doctor, of Medicine, for the Invention of “An Impeoved System op Dispensing Medicines and Preparing Drugs therefor, TOGETHER WITH AN IMPROVED PORTABLE MlNATURE DISPENSARY AND INSTRU¬ MENT Case applicable to such System/’ Sealed the 28th January 1868, and dated the 2nd August 1867. PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edmund Adolphus Kirby at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 2nd August 1867. 1, Edmund Adolphus Kirby, of Gordon Square, in the County of Mid- 5 dlesex, Doctor of Medicine, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “ An Improved System of Dispensing Medicines and Preparing Drugs therefor, together with an Improved Portable Miniature Dispensary AND Instrument Case applicable to such System,” to be as follows: — This improved system is designed for the purpose of affording medical prac- 10 titioners and others a ready means of dispensing or compounding medicines without the usual delay of weighing or measuring the various ingredients. It will also enable medical men to carry with them in a convenient form the means of compounding and administering at once to the patient the medi¬ cament or remedial agent required, and thus obviate the delay and danger 15 frequently caused by the ordinary process of writing a prescription and sending it to a druggist or apothecary to be dispensed or compounded ; the^lrugs will