Specification of Charles William Hockaday : chemical compounds for the cure of scorbutic and other affections.

  • Hockaday, Charles William.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Specification of Charles William Hockaday : chemical compounds for the cure of scorbutic and other affections. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hockadays Chemical Compounds for the Cure of Scorbutic Affections, §c. tors, and assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent for tlie same, and have made solemn declaration, that I verily believe myself to be the true and first Inventor thereof : NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles William Hockaday, do hereby declare that the following Complete Specification, under my 5 hand and seal, fully describes and ascertains the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, viz1: The nature of my said Invention is as follows:— First, I use for the complaint commonly known as scurvy, the following proportions of liyd. oxymur, five grains; acid muriat., fifteen 10 grains; viri antimonii, half ounce; aqua dist., two drachms; sacch. ust., q. s. For an adult I consider that twenty drops in a wine glass of water, and taken twice a day, to be proper and sufficient; for the age of seven years, five drops to be used; for the age of fourteen, ten drops ; for twenty-one years, fifteen drops. 15 For an odontalgic tincture, I combine of acid nitros, ten drops; finct. pyreth., twenty drops; and apply the same by means of a feather, camel hair pencil, or by any other suitable means. For the venereal complaint, gonorrlioe, I take of pulv. pot. nit., half ounce; pulv. cubeba, one ounce; pulv. trag. co., half ounce. 20 These proportions I combine, and divide the mixture into twelve powders, one to be taken three times a day in a wine glass of water. For ringworm, I mix intimately of oxungia, one ounce ; sulph. proe., two drachms; kreosote, two scruples; rose pink, ten grains. This should be applied twice a day. The above is also good in what is 25 known as grocers’ itch. For worms, I combine of pulv. scam., half drachm; hyd. submur., one scruple; sacch. alb., one drachm; misce. Doses to be taken as follows:—For the age of two years, eight grains; for the age of four, ten grains; for the age of seven, fifteen grains; and for fourteen 30 years, and over, twenty grains. One dose to be taken every other night. For a corn plaster, I mix of plumbi superacetatis, fourteen drachms and one scruple; emp. hyd., half a pound ; emp. plumbi, half a pound ; emp. resins, half a pound ; pulv. opii, two drachms. 35