Specification of Eliza Lawrance : compound for removing corns, &c.

  • Lawrance, Eliza.
Date:
1875
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Credit: Specification of Eliza Lawrance : compound for removing corns, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Provisional Specification. Lawrance's Compound for Removing Corns, 8fC. pound is placed on the corn, and then covered with and kept in place by adhesive plaster or oiled silk, or similar fabric. By the application of the said compound the corn is rapidly softened, and may then be removed easily, it being then reduced to the consistency of soap. 5 The following is a description of what is considered the best method of preparing the said medicinal compound:—Take in the following proportions, or near thereto, of soap two ounces, of carbolic acid, one tablespoonful; and of honey, or treacle, or similar substance, about one- sixteenth of an ounce, and thoroughly mix these substances together, 10 either using heat during the process or not. The said medicinal compound may instead of soap be formed with any other oleaginous, fatty, or waxy, or mucilaginous substance, or with a combination of two or more of such substances. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, 15 filed by the said Eliza Lawrance in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 16th August 1875. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Eliza Lawrance, of Broadclist, in the County of Devon, Widow, send greeting. 20 WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Eourth day of March, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty- eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successsor, give and grant unto me, the said Eliza Lawrance, Her special license 25 that I, the said Eliza Lawrence, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Eliza Lawrance, 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 30 vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “ A New Medicinal Compound or Preparation . for the . Cure or Removal of Corns or other