Specification of Jean Antoine François Victor Oudin : liquid for preventing sea sickness.

  • Oudin, Jean Antoine François Victor.
Date:
1855
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Credit: Specification of Jean Antoine François Victor Oudin : liquid for preventing sea sickness. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Oudiris New Liquid for Preventing Sea Sickness. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said Jean Antoine Frangois Victor Oudin in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 14th July 1855. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Jean Antoine Francois Victor Oudin, of Mons, Departement of Seine & Marne, 5 in the Empire of France, and of 4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Priest, send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the eighteenth year of Her 10 reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Jean Antoine Frangois Victor Oudin, Her special license that I, the said Jean Antoine Francois Victor Oudin, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Jean Antoine Francois Victor Oudin, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and 15 no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should 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 of “ A New Liquid tor Preventing Sea Sickness,” upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Jean 20 Antoine Frangois Victor Oudin, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly 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 after the date of the said Letters Patent. 25 NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Jean Antoine Frangois Victor Oudin, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say:— My Invention consists in the composition of a liquid for preventing or 30 alleviating sea sickness. I distil one-third of an ounce (troy) of hydrochloric acid in five ounces of alcohol, and mix the product in thirty-two to thirty-eight ounces of water; I sweeten the liquid with syrup of sugar. I, however, compose the liquid, by preference, of two and two-thirds of an ounce, troy, of dry chloride of 35 lime mixed with eight ounces of water, to which I add ten and two-thirds of an ounce of alcohol. The whole is distilled by ordinary means, until I obtain as a product five and one-third of an ounce of the liquid. I afterwards