Specification of Pierre Athanase Roguier : mixture and ointment for the cure of varicose veins.

  • Roguier, Pierre Athanase.
Date:
1855
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Credit: Specification of Pierre Athanase Roguier : mixture and ointment for the cure of varicose veins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Mixture and Ointment for the Cure of Varicose Veins. (This Invention did not proceed to the Great Seal.) PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Pierre Athanase Roguier at tbe Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 12th August 1854.—A communication. I, Pierre Athanase Roguier, of Paris, in the Empire of France, and 5 of 4, Trafalgar Square, Charing Cross, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “ A New Mode of Treating and Curing Varicose Veins of the Human Body ” to be as follows:— This Invention consists in the use and employment to varicose veins of a mixture composed of liquid perchloride of iron (perchlorure de fer liquide), 10 and a maceration of the white clematis plant, made by steeping the said plant in the said liquid perchloride of iron; and also in a new ointment, composed of hogs-lard, perchloride of iron in a solid state, sal ammoniac, and deutoxide of iron. The mode of operating with the above mixture and ointment for curing varicose veins is as follows :— 15 The parts to be operated upon with the above mixture should first be pre¬ pared for its reception by applying a blister of the ordinary kind, which should be left on sufficiently long to raise a blister on the skin, the raised part of which should be removed and the flesh left bare; I then cover or bathe such bare part several times with the above mixture, and those varicose 20 veins which do not require to be blistered, as above stated, I rub with the