Specification of John Blackman and Edward Blackman : medicine.

  • Blackman, John.
Date:
1867
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Credit: Specification of John Blackman and Edward Blackman : medicine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    < ^ - * Medicine. ( This Invention received Provisional Protection only.} PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Blackman and Edward Blackman at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 27th October 1866. We, John Blackman and Edward Blackman, both of Knightsbridge, in 5 the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for u Improvements in Medicine for the Cure of Hooping and other Coughs, ’ to be as follows :— Our improvements consist in combining the under-mentioned matters, prepared as described, for the cure of coughs, but principally the hooping 10 cough. We mix saccharine matters with malt liquor, and prepare a decoction with thyme and a little coltsfoot, adding a little vinegar to modify and render it slightly astringent. In proportions we take, say, one pint of beer (by preference), and mix with it about one pound of saccharine matter, white sugar candy by preference, adding about one quarter of a pint of water in 15 which a little coltsfoot has been previously decocted. The whole is submitted to a slow evaporating or boiling process, together with half an ounce of thyme, which is continued until the quantity is reduced to about one-half; a little vinegar is now added and the solution strained to separate the thyme or other herbaceous substance that may be contained, when it may be bottled and 20 stored for use. This medicine is administered in doses of, say, from a tea¬ spoonful to a table-spoonful according to age, and at such intervals as may be found most beneficial. LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and -William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty. 186/.