Specification of Edmund Adolphus Kirby : dispensing medicines.

  • Kirby, Edmund Adolphus.
Date:
1868
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Edmund Adolphus Kirby : dispensing medicines. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Kirby s Improved System of Dispensing Medicines, material) may be covered with morocco or other leather, and the whole or parts lined with velvet plash, or other soft material as a precautionary measure against breakage, and to prevent the contents from rattling whilst being carried. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed 5 by the said Edmund Adolphus Kirby in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 1st February 1868. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Edmund Adolphus Kirby, of Gordon Square, in the County of Middlesex, Doctor of Medicine, send greeting. 10 WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Second day of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Edmund Adolphus Kirby, Her special licence that I, the said Edmund 15 Adolphus Kirby, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Edmund Adolphus Kirby, 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 20 Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Inven¬ tion for “ An Improved Systbm op Dispensing Medicines and Preparing Drugs THEREFOR, TOGETHER WITH AN IMPROVED PORTABLE MINIATURE AND INSTRUMENT Case applicable to such System,” upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Edmund Adolphus Kirby, my executors or adminstrators, by an 25 instrument in 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. 30 NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edmund Adolphus Kirby, 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 in writing, and on reference to the accompanying Drawings, that is to say :— 35 This improved system is designed for the purpose of affording medical