Specification of Charles Constant Joseph Guffroy : preparing the livers of salt water fish.

  • Guffroy, Charles Constant Joseph.
Date:
1861
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Credit: Specification of Charles Constant Joseph Guffroy : preparing the livers of salt water fish. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Provisional Guffroy s Improvements in Preparing the Livers of Salt Water Fish. I next evaporate the liquid either over a slow fire in a bain marie, or water bath, by a coil of pipes containing steam or water in open pans or under a vacuum, or otherwise, until the liquid, thickening in proportion to the evaporation, has acquired or assumed a state of stiff paste. From 100 lbs. of liquid I obtain about 10 or 12 lbs. of paste. During the evaporation the 5 albumen contained in the liquid coagulates and floats on the surface. It is better it should be skimmed off, though not absolutely necessary. The paste can be formed into pills, and in this state will not be so disagreeable to take as cod liver oil. Even exposed to the air this form of preparation will preserve its medicinal properties almost indefinitely. 1 SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said Charles Constant Joseph Guffroy, in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 18th January 1861. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Charles Constant Joseph Guffroy, of Lille, Town in the French Empire, Merchant, l£| send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said gel Charles Constant Joseph Guffroy, Her special licence that I, the said Charles Constant Joseph Guffroy, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles Constant Joseph Guffroy, my executors, adminis¬ trators, 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 2c| and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “Improvements in Preparing the Livers or Salt Water Fish,” (a communication from Augustin Joseph Despinoy, resident at Lille, in the French Empire,) upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Charles 3Cj Constant Joseph Guffroy, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par¬ ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately 35] ifter the date of the said Letters Patent.