Specification of William Newton : medicinal compound.

  • Newton, William.
Date:
1857
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Credit: Specification of William Newton : medicinal compound. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Newtons Improved Medicinal Compound. what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be enrolled in Her Majesty’s High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto have, will more fully and at large appear. 5 NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said William Newton, do hereby declare that the nature of the said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described and ascertained in and by the following description thereof (that is to say) :— This improved medicinal compound is a mixture or combination of ferru- 10 ginous preparations with farinaceous matters intended to be taken into the stomach by way of food in the form of bread, biscuits, or cakes. The Invention is communicated to me by M. * de Herrypon, of Paris, and is directed to be carried into effect by the following means:—A given quantity of ferruginous preparation (say of the soluble salts of iron) is to be dissolved in 15 a suitable quantity of water, and this water so impregnated with the iron is to be employed as the menstruum or liquid for mixing up a given quantity of flour into dough. The proportions of the iron to the flour must be accord¬ ing to the complaint, disease, or physical state of the patient, and may be regulated by the advice of the physician or other medical attendant. The 20 dough so prepared, having been properly kneaded, is to be baked into bread, biscuits, cakes, or other suitable forms, and is then fit to be eaten by the patient as an ordinary article of food as part of his or her daily aliment. By such administration of the iron in small quantities the constitution of the patient will be gradually restored to its natural tone of health and vigor, and 25 in a much more effective and agreeable manner than if taken in doses by the ordinary means of solution or by other modes. This medicinal compound, when made up in the form of biscuits, may be readily carried at sea or upon a journey as an article of food, and may be continually taken by persons suffering under the complaints above alluded to; in hospitals and in the army 30 and navy, under circumstances of extensively prevailing disorders among the men, such as scurvy, this mode of introducing iron and other suitable medi¬ cines into bread or biscuits, subject to the direction of the medical adviser, will be found to be extremely convenient and efficaceous, and the materials may be so mixed that the patients shall not be aware of the bread which they 35 are eating being medicated. I have said above that the proportionate quantities of the preparations to be mixed with the flour employed for making the bread should be regulated by the advice of a medical man, as it is impossible to give * Sic in MS.