Specification of Louis Fontana : substances for surgical and therapeutical application.

  • Fontana, Louis.
Date:
1872
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Credit: Specification of Louis Fontana : substances for surgical and therapeutical application. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2 A.D. 1872.—N° 1201. Provisional Specification. 'Fontana's Substances for Surgical and Therapeutical Application. an analogous quality; as for example is tarred tow. This preliminary treatment is only requisite when the substance is to he kept long for use; but it may otherwise be dispensed with, and in respect to my second pharmaceutical preparation herein-after mentioned it may be wholly dispensed with. 5 (3.) In its dry state after this preliminary process the substance in that condition if so prepared or otherwise in its cleansed and dry state is impregnated or coated sufficiently to render it energetic in action with a pharmaceutical amalgam or solution the base of which has the properties of being anti-hemorrhagic or styptic, allopathic, and 10 anodyne for certain purposes. (4.) For this impregnation or coating I use preferentially a liquid or mixture composed, 1st., of tritochloride or hydrochloride of peroxide of iron, and a curative stimulant such as arnica, or any other thera¬ peutical ingredient having the like effect, which I empirically find 15 intensifies and accelerates the curative action, in solution with water in greater or less proportion according to the nature of the application and substance for which it is intended; secondly, another pharma¬ ceutical liquid or mixture which I employ for some of the purposes aforesaid is composed of the specific called “ eau hemostatique de 20 Pagliari,” or Pagliari’s styptic water, with arnica or other curative stimulant of similar nature in admixture with water. (5.) This part of my combination consisting of the impregnation or coating of the substance to be used, and which I call the “ pharma¬ ceutical preparation,” may be effected by hand in trays or troughs by 25 steeping or soaking superficially or, by saturation, or by laying on the substance one or more coatings with a tool contrived as a feeder (which I call “ alimenteur ”), or with a brush or other suitable instrument to convey on to the surface the pharmaceutical composition described in the preceding paragraph, either as a solution or as a paint or plaster, 30 according to the thickness of the application required. (6.) But for economy of time and labour in treating substances in considerable quantity I pass them through an apparatus which I call a preparer or “ appreteur,” which consists of a receptacle or bath con¬ taining the pharmaceutical composition, through or over which the 35 passage ot the substance is directed on drums, or rollers, or other suitable appliances, acted on by any sufficient motive power and machinery. The