US244965A - Medical compound - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT .OFFICE.

RICHARD M. BRIMMER, OF BATAVIA, OHIO.

MEDICAL COM POUND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 244,965, dated July 26, 1881.

i 4 Application filed April 12,1881. (N0 specimens.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD MILES BRIM- MER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Batavia, in the county of Olermont and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Medical Compounds, of which the following is a specification.

This is a medical compound for the alleviation and cure of dyspepsia, indigestion, and the various analogous stomach disorders, diseases of the liver, fever and ague, and general debility, and is designed to be used in diseases which indicate a tonic as well as alterative treatment.

My said compound consists of the followingnamed ingredients, in about the proportions mentioned, viz one pound Cape aloes, one pound rhubarb-root, one pound caraway-seed, one pound American centaury herb, four to two pounds juniperberries, one pound agrimony, one pound buchu-lea'vesJi These herbs are steeped in whisky above proof for four days, or until all the strength is taken up by the whisky. The proportion of whisky or other high-wine to the schedule stated should be about twenty gallons. The steeping-vessel preferably a whiskybarrel-should be occasionally shifted, so as to thoroughly agitate the herbs to obtain all their strength.

The mixture may be weakened as circumstances require; but for a dose of the compound made according to the formula a table-spoonful should be taken before meals, three times a day; but if the patient be easy to purge, then a dessertspoonful. Ghildrens doses should be reduced according to age; but a tea-spoonful would be a safe dose. As a morning bitters or a malarial preventative in malanal regions, the

dose would be about a table-spoonful for an