Specification of William Darlow & Henry Fairfax : pills.

  • Darlow, William.
Date:
1875
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Credit: Specification of William Darlow & Henry Fairfax : pills. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Specification. Darlow Fairfax’s Improvements in the Manufacture of Fills. Now, according to our Invention, we propose to make pills of a per¬ manently magnetic compound in the manner herein-after described, and capable of infusing the magnetic power directly on the inmost tissues of the stomach or internal parts of the body. Our Invention consists in incorporating with any convenient pill, 5 mass, or compound magnetic oxide of iron or steel, or any compound or mixture of iron, steel, or other substance capable of being magnetized. The pills are then made up in the ordinary way, and are afterwards magnetized by passing them through a helix of copper wire, through which an electric current is passing, or by any of the other known 10 methods of magnetization. In carrying out our Invention in practice we prefer to use powdered or precipitated magnetic oxide of iron incorporated in a pill with gum arabic, or with aloes and gamboge, so as to make a “ magnetic antibilious pill,5' or to incorporate powdered or precipitated magnetic oxide of iron 15 with sulphate or citrate of quinine, or with powdered quer citron bark, so as to make a “ magnetic tonic pill.” Tor plain magnetic pills we prefer to use four parts of precipitated magnetic oxide of iron to six parts of gum arabic mixed and beat or compounded into a proper mass, and divided into five-grain pills, and 20 to be afterwards magnetized in the manner before described. Tor magnetic antibilious pills we prefer to use four parts of preci¬ pitated magnetic oxide of iron, three parts of gamboge, two parts of Barbadoes aloes, and three parts of gum arabic mixed and beat or com¬ pounded into a proper mass, and divided into five-grain pills, and to be 25 afterwards magnetized in the manner before described. Tor magnetic tonic pills we prefer to use eight parts of precipitated magnetic oxide of iron, one part of sulphate of quinine, four parts of quer citron bark, and fourteen parts of gum arabic mixed and beat or compounded into a proper mass, and divided into five-grain pills, and 30 afterwards magnetized in the manner before described. We do not restrict ourselves to the exact proportions of the ingre¬ dients or substances above mentioned, as it may sometimes be necessary to vary the same*