Specification of Charles Denton Abel : lotion for the mouth.

  • Abel, Charles Denton.
Date:
1863
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Charles Denton Abel : lotion for the mouth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Lotion for the Mouth. LETTERS PATENT to Charles Denton Abel, of No. 20, Southampton’ Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of “ A New or Improved Purifying and Preservative Lotion for the Mouth.’*—A communication from abroad by Johann Georg Popp, Dentist, residing at Vienna, in the Empire of Austria. Sealed the 23rd December 1862, and dated the 26th September 1862. PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Denton Abel at the OflSce of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 26th September 1862. I, Charles Denton Abel, of No. 20, Southampton Buildings, Chancery 5 Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declaie the nature of the said Invention for “ A New or Improved Purifying and Pre¬ servative Lotion for the Mouth,” to be as follows ;— I firstly mix together one ounce of each of the following ingredients, namely, cochlearia, vine tendrils, rose leaves, pyrethrum, pounded Peruvian 10 bark, earth moss, and scraped horseradish; to these I add thirty-two ounces of alcohol, of eighteen degrees strength, and thirty-two ounces of distilled water. This mixture is then allowed to stand for about a fortnight in a warm place; at the end of this time I add to the mixture one ounce of anatherus