Specification of William Temple Cooper : treating venereal disease [in the male sex].

  • Cooper, William Temple.
Date:
1866
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Credit: Specification of William Temple Cooper : treating venereal disease [in the male sex]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Treating Venereal Disease. ( This Invention received Provisional Protection only.) PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Temple Cooper at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 27th March 1866. I, William Temple Cooper, of Oxford Street, in the County of Middlesex,' 5 Pharmaceutical Chemist, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for 6* Improvements in the Treatment for the Cure of the Venereal Disease in the Male Sex,” to be as follows:—• My improvements consist in the application of astringents and sedatives for the cure of venereal disease by means of an unctuous vehicle so composed as 10 to be slowly solvent, and at same time devoid of any solid deposit when dissolved and absorbed, dispersed or evaporated. For this purpose I employ a wick or core of silk, cotton, or other material, with a loop at one end, the wick being embedded in butter of cocoa in the manner of a dipped candle, but which is of small diameter, say, from an eighth to a quarter of an inch, 15 and four or five inches in length. The butter of cocoa is previously mixed with tannin or sulphate of alum, or other astringent, as also with a pre¬ paration of opium or any other sedative; these may be either applied in combination or separately. The small cylinder of unctuous material is introduced into the urethra and allowed to remain there till dissolved and 20 absorbed or passed away. The loop of the wick having a string threaded through it (and fastened in any suitable way) is afterwards drawn out. Instead of butter of cocoa, wax and tallow or lard may be employed, or even