A new or improved medicinal appliance / [Isabella Jane Gouk].

  • Gouk, Isabella Jane.
Date:
1895
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Credit: A new or improved medicinal appliance / [Isabella Jane Gouk]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    \ 1 ; Date of Application, 11th Apr., 1895—Accepted, 8th June, 1895 COMPLETE SPECIFICATION, v A New or Improved Medicinal Appliance. I, Isabella Jane Gouk, of 1, Lansdowne Park, Coirk, Teacher, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:— _ j % i f 5 This invention relates to an improved medicinal appliance, especially intended for use with infants when teething and has for its object to provide a simple device which will effectually relieve the child. The appliance I propose to employ is in the form of a small sachet of silk or other suitable material, containing about a tea-spoonful of dry herbs in the form of a powder. This sachet is worn by the 10 infant and is placed at the pit of the stomach. The sachet is attached to the end of a silk or other cord which serves to secure it in proper position, suspending it or otherwise retaining it in place. A band or other well known means may also be used for this purpose. According to the arrangement I prefer, the cord is placed around the neck and 15 the sachet or bag is allowed to hang in the required position. Two or more of these bags may be used if found desirable. The herbs I propose to employ are viscum album and herba verbence. In preparing the mixture, leaves of both herbs are taken ; dried by hanging up for some time, and then pounded separately in a mortar. When thoroughly powdered they are mixed together & a small tea- 20 spoonful placed in the sachet. The sachet should be worn continuously, being removed only for bathing or such purposes and must not be allowed to get wet. Any form or construction of sachet can be employed, my invention relating only to the mixture & the means of application. Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven- 25 tion, and in what manner the same is to he performed, I declare that what I claim is :— (1.) An improved medicinal appliance for use by children, consisting of a small sachet or bag of silk or like material containing a mixture of herbs in the form of a powder, placed on the pit of the stomach, substantially as and for the purposes 30 specified. (2.) An improved medicinal appliance for use by infants consisting of a sachet or bag. of silk or like material, suspended or otherwise placed on the stomach, containing a mixture of powdered viscum album and lierba verbence substantially as and for the purposes specified. 35 Dated this 11th day of April 1895. GEO. H. KAYNEK, 37, Chancery Lane, London, Agent for the Applicant. London : i’rinted for Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, by Darling <fc Son, Ltd.—1S95 [Price Si.]