Improvements in medicine for human use / [Henry Grant Noakes].

  • Noakes, Henry Grant.
Date:
1889
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Credit: Improvements in medicine for human use / [Henry Grant Noakes]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Date of Application, 16th June, 1888 Complete Specification Left, 18th Mar., 1889 Complete Specification Accepted, 27th Apr., 1889 A.D. 1888, 16M June. N° 8869. PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION. Improvements in Medicine for Human Use. We Henry Grant Noakes of 26 Maitland Park Road, Haverstock Hill, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman Edwin John Tucker of Holloway Farm Southend Catford in the County of Kent, Gentleman and Daniel Clark of 17 Collett Road Bermondsey in the County of Surrey Gentleman do hereby declare the nature ot 5 this Invention to be as follows :— The obiect of our invention is to effect an improvement in the preparation of drugs or medicines, so as to render them palatable and also an improvement in the means whereby such drugs and medicines are readily and accurately divided into tho 10 r6<Forethis purpose we employ a mixture of cocoa, sugar and cocoa butter, that is to say, the mixture or preparation commonly known and sold as chocolate, and we intimately mix and incorporate with the said chocolate during the {.regress of its manufacture, anv suitable remedial drug or drugs, with or without suitable flavoring oils or essences. The resulting compound is formed into cakes or tablets, in suitable 15 moulds, in the same manner as is usual in the manufacture of chocolate, and these cakes or tablets are formed with parallel or other suitably disposed indent.it , that a portion containing a sufficient quantity of medicine to form a i°l>er Jo e may readily be broken off the cake, or the tablets may be made of such a size that 'We0! Tol oursXTffi fuse of any particular be obvious that the flavor of certain drugs is more reamly concealed by the chocolate thwfnd0fthaiecertain drugs which have an aperient action or are useful for their 'll ftn the liver are particularly suitable for treatment in this manner, and the 25 Srii iSC withLm are „ fee fro- .he h»h> «f -he drag « drugs as to form an agreeable sweetmeat. Dated this 16th day of June 1888. 30 AMBROSE MYALL, 21, Cockspur Street, S.W., Agent for the Applicants. [ Pnc( 6d.}