A DRINK FOR THE CURE, PREVENTION, OR RELIEF OF GOUT, GRAVEL, AND OTHER DISEASES
Year: 1831

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
BURGESS, of Northwick, in the County of Chester, M.D., send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-first day of February, in the first year of His reign,
did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Richard Burgess, His especial licence, sole privilege and authority, that I, the
said Richard Burgess, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, and such others as I,
the said Richard Burgess, my exors, adñiors, or assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term
of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
Invention of "A DRINK FOR THE CURE, PREVENTION, OR RELIEF OF GOUT, GRAVEL,
AND OTHER DISEASES;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that
I, the said Richard Burgess, shall cause a particular description of the nature
of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters
Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully
and at largo appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Richard Burgess,' do hereby declare that the nature of my Invention is fully

page_text: described and ascertained in and by the following description thereof (that is
to say)-
My Invention consists in the application of distilled water for the purpose
of a drink, whereby gout, gravel, and other diseases will be cured, prevented,
or relieved. It is well known that water, however filtered, contains much carthy
matter, and that the drinking of such water the earthy matter is separated
in the human system, and thus is caused many disorders, more particularly
gravel; but by using distilled water as a drink, this earthy matter being got
rid of, consequently the drinking of such water will tend to prevent the forma-
tion of diseases heretofore consequent on drinking water in its impure state.
In addition to this benefit, the animal parts held in such water in the form of
animalculi are destroyed, and thus those disorders, which it is well known aro
caused by the decomposition of such animal matter, will be avoided, for by
distillation the animalculi will be destroyed. In such cases the water should
be used early after distillation, otherwise animalculi will quickly re-form. I
would therefore have it understood that what I claim is, the application of
distilled water to the purposes of drink, whereby those disorders consequent
on drinking impure water will be avoided.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Burgess, have hereunto set my
hand and scal, this Twenty-ninth day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty-onc.
RICHARD (L.S.) BURGESS, M.D.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-ninth day of March,
in the year of our Lord 1831, the aforesaid Richard Burgess came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twentieth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.