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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
DIEDRICH MEINEN, OF WARRENTON, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO
JOHN C. SPRECKLES, OF SAME PLACE.
LINIMENT.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 442,667, dated Daecmber 16, 1890,
Application filed October 14,1890. Serial No. 368,093. (No specimens,)To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, DIEDRICH MEINEN, a
citizen of the United States, residing at War-
renton, in the county of Fayette and State of
5 Texas, have invented certain new and useful
Improvements in Medicinal Compounds; and
I do declare the following to be a full, clear,
and exact description of the invention, such
as will enable others skilled in the art to which
io it appertains to make and use the same.
This invention relates to improvements in
that class of topical remedies which are coml-
pounded for the purpose of relieving rheiuma-
tism, neuralgia, gout, toothache, sprains,
15 swellings, bruises, sores, and similar afflic-
tions, and its curative properties are largely
dependent on the use of the root and bark of
the trumpet-flower plant, although each of the
other ingredients is necessary to the effective-
20 ness of the medicine.
To the above ends and such others as it may
pertain, my invention consists in the use and
compounding, in the manner hereinafter to be
described, of the following ingredients, in or
25 about their accompanying proportions, name-
ly: bark and root of the trumpet creeper, (Te-
coma radicans juss,) thirteen and one-half
ounces; root of the pokeberry, (Phytolacca,)eight and one-half ounces; aqua ammonia, one
liquid ounce, and spirits of turpentine, two and 30
one-fourth liquid ounces. To these I add cot-
ton-seed oil in sufficient quantity to make one
quart of the medicine, the root and bark of
the trumpet flower and the root of the poke-
berry being boiled in the latter and the am- 35
monia and turpentine being added on the cool-
ing of the mixture.
My medicine may be applied in any suit-
able or usual manner of applying external
remedies. 40
Having thus described my invention, what I
claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters
Patent, is-
The combination,in a topical remedy, of the
bark and root of the trumpet creeper, (Tecoma 45
radicans,) the root of the pokeberry, aqua-am-
monia, and spirits of turpentine, compounded
with cotton-seed oil in substantially the man-
ner and proportions specified.
In testimony whereof I affix my signature in 50
presence of two witnesses.
DIEDRICII MEINEN.
Witnesses:
R. H. SEYMOUR,
J. C. SPREKELS.
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Meinen, Diedrich. Liniment, patent, December 16, 1890; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172548/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.