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Improvement in Medical Compounds. (open access)

Improvement in Medical Compounds.

Patent for a new medical compound to treat "various diseases, more especially those which affect the bowels and digestive organs" (lines 34-36) which lists the ingredients.
Date: April 14, 1874
Creator: Roberts, Robert R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Animal-Traps (open access)

Improvement in Animal-Traps

Patent for "traps for catching large and small animals; and it consists in the combination of a number of inclined plates or boards, provided with spurs on their lower ends and hinged to fixed ridges on their upper ends, so arranged as to form ridges or elevations and depressions, and to entrap the animals by holding their legs between the spurred ends of said inclined plates" (lines 15-23).
Date: April 14, 1874
Creator: Flournoy, Rice Smith
System: The Portal to Texas History