Improvement in Tape-Worm Medicines. Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Improvement in Tape-Worm Medicines.

Creator

  • Inventor: Nette, August
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: August Nette, of San Antonio, Texas.

Contributor

  • Witness: Wild, F.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Witness: Elchlepp, Theodore
    Contributor Type: Personal
    Contributor Info: Theo. Elchlepp.

Publisher

  • Name: United States. Patent Office.
    Place of Publication: [Washington D.C.]

Date

  • Creation: 1879-09-23
  • Acceptance Date: 1879-09-23
  • Submission Date: 1879-06-11

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Patent for a compound called “Tape-Worm Medicine” that is used to “remove tape-worms from the human body speedily and effectually; and it consists in a composition formed from the fibrils of the roots of the pomegranate mixed with water” (lines 9-13).
  • Physical Description: 1 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Inventions
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Science and Technology
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Business, Economics and Finance - Medicine
  • Keyword: tapeworms
  • Keyword: cures
  • Keyword: pomegranates

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Texas - Bexar County - San Antonio

Collection

  • Name: Texas Patents
    Code: TXPT

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Rights

  • Rights License: pd

Resource Type

  • Patent

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • Patent Number: 219825
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth169895

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