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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    Darlow 8f Fairfax's Improvements in the Manufacture of Fills. at that part. The question has therefore hitherto been how can the magnetic force be applied so as to act directly on the internal tissues of the body, seeing that all the applications of magnetism have been external. Now, according to our Invention, we propose to make pills of a per- 5 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, mass, or compound magnetic oxide of iron or steel, or any compound or mix- 10 ture 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 methods of magnetization. 15 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, or to incorporate powdered or precipitated magnetic oxide of iron with sulphate or citrate of quinine or with powdered quer citron bark, 20 so to make a magnetic tonic pill. For 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 to be afterwards magnetized in the manner before described. 25 For magnetic antibilious pills we prefer to use four parts of precipi¬ tated 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 afterwards magnetized in the manner before described. 30 For 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 afterwards magnetized in the manner before described. 35
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