Specification of Frederick Ely : composition for corn plasters.

  • Ely, Frederick.
Date:
1864
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Frederick Ely : composition for corn plasters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Composition for Corn Plasters. (This Invention received Provisional Protection only.) PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Frederick Ely at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 8th July 1863. I, Frederick Ely, of Totton, Southampton, do hereby declare the nature 5 of the said Invention for “ An Improved Composition applicable to Corn Plasters,” to be as follows (that is to say) :— My Invention has reference to a composition to be employed upon diachylon plaster, linen, or other thin adhesive surfaces for the cure of corns, and consists in employing for the said purpose a mixture of white wax, Venice turpentine, 10 aromatic vinegar, and verdigris, in the proportion of one ounce of white wax to three-quarters of an ounce of Venice turpentine, thirty drops of aromatic vinegar, and one-quarter of an ounce of verdigris. The said ingredients being boiled together for about two or three minutes, and subsequently placed whilst hot upon the diachylon plaster, in the form of a drop, which when 15 cold and hard is ready for use. LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty. 1864.